The following are the links to articles, blog post, YouTube videos, TED Talks, and books that were used or referenced in a variety of talks and workshops on Online Learning and the Online Blended Learning – Learning Lab:

Workshop Slides, Resources & PDFs  Free COVA eBook

VCC Provincial Instructor Diploma Program

Lamar University Applied Digital Learning Masters of Education

Steve Pinker Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

John Hattie Visible Learning

Technology – No Significant Difference

• Why Does Technology Continue to Fail Education?
• We Need More Autodidacts
• Larry Cuban Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom
• Why AI Should Scare Some Educators and Not Others
• Why You Need to Rethink Your Role as an Educator
• Why We Are Wasting EdTech Dollars?

Assessment As Learning

• Feedforward Vs. Feedback
• Computers in Schools – Not Working…Yet
• Engaging Synchronous Collaboration with BOPPPS

Connecting the Dots vs Collecting the Dots

Change in Focus Part A

Links to Authentic Learning & CSLE+COVA posts:
I have been advocating authentic learning or project-based learning and creating significant learning environments for decades both professionally and personally. Talking the talk as an academic takes on a much more significant perspective when you walk the walk in your personal life.

• Benefits of Life Long Authentic Learning Opportunities
• Authentic Learning Leads to Authentic Adventures
• Power of the Continual Practice of Authentic Learning
• Five Standards of Authentic Learning
• Why Authentic Learning Converts Into Lifelong Learning
• Do You Care Enough to Let Them Take Ownership of Their Learning?

Creating Significant Learning Environments

• CSLE
• Significant Learning Environments
• Why Create Significant Learning Environments
• Optimal Learning Environments
• Arts Integration for Deeper Learning: Its the Context and Environment that Matter
• Piaget’s Key Implications for Learning

The CLSE+COVA section of this site is also a great starting place to see how to create a significant learning environment by giving your learners choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities

Community of Practice (CoP) Lead Links:

https://jamievelazquezdlleportfolio.wordpress.com/innovation-plan/
https://jerryyamashita.com/adultedtech-blog/disruptive-innovation-step-by-step
https://sites.google.com/a/bunaisd.net/kdarling/kathy-s-blog/newjeans
https://www.cflexon.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/teachingblueprint/blended-learning-innovation-plan?authuser=0

WEEK 4: Roles and Responsibilities

Examining, thinking and talking with other teachers about the learning environments that we have created and are creating and the impact that we can have on learners is the most important thing we can do to improve our learner’s achievement. – John Hattie

Learning Outcomes

Course Outcome/Goal
Learners will effectively apply an innovative teaching practice by collaborating with colleagues to evaluate their impact on learners and design and model authentic professional learning (PL) activities that are active, have a significant duration, and are specific to their discipline.

Module Outcome/Goal
After completing this module learners will analyze and assess the different roles and responsibilities in the implementation of effective PL in collaborative and self-directed settings.

Introduction Video

Required Readings

Gopnik, A. (2016, July 30). What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/what-babies-know-about-physics-and-foreign-languages.html

Toikkanen, T. (2016, June 30). Learning Despite School. Retrieved August 1, 2016, from https://medium.com/lifelearn/learning-despite-school-d0879be9464f

Pope, C., Beal, C., Long, S., & McCammon, L. (2011). They teach us how to teach them: Teacher preparation for the 21st century. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 11(4), 324-349. Retrieved from http://www.citejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/v11i4languagearts1.pdf

Beatty, B. R. (2000). Teachers leading their own professional growth: self-directed reflection and collaboration and changes in perception of self and work in secondary school teachers. Journal of In-Service Education, 26(1), 73–97. http://doi.org/10.1080/13674580000200102

Supplemental Resources

Supplemental readings & videos:

Peter Gray: Mother Nature’s Pedagogy: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology

Gray, P. (2011). The evolutionary biology of education: How our hunter-gatherer educative instincts could form the basis for education today. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 4(1), 28-40.

Gray, P., & Riley, G. (2013). The challenges and benefits of unschooling according to 232 families who have chosen that route. Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, 7(14), 1-27.

Gray, P. (2013). Free to learn: Why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life. Basic Books.

Modeling-based Learning Development: Collaborative Discussion

In this assignment, you are to read What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages and Learning Despite School, view the video Modeling-Based (Flipped) Professional Development at Rutgers University – Dr. Lodge McCammon and view Peter Gray – Self-Directed Learning Fundamentals then participate in a discussion with your colleagues.

Modeling-Based (Flipped) Professional Development at Rutgers University – Dr. Lodge McCammon

Peter Gray – Self-Directed Learning Fundamentals

Instructions

Participate in a class discussion in which you begin by addressing the following:

• What are the advantages of creating shorter self-paced video content?
• Identify and analyze the collaboration inspiring activities – consider how you can incorporate these ideas into your PL sessions.
• Why walk & talk? What are the benefits?
• Why does this type of PL need to be modeled?
• What would it take for you to model a similar session in your learning environment?
• How can we become more childlike in our learning and adopt the learning fundamentals that Peter Gray talks about?
• How do we model self-directed learning?

Consider your experience with self-directed learning through the COVA model – how would you model this in your PL?

Please remember the list of questions are for your benefit and are intended to help you focus your thinking. We are not asking nor expect you to answer each question in your discussion–rather you should use these questions to help focus on how the insights gained through this discussion will help you to add another component to your innovation plan.

This assignment will be assessed as part of your course participation grade.

Building your PL

Assignment – nothing to submit in Week 4 BUT

In the first 3 weeks of this course, you have explored what we have been referring to as the go and show or alternative PL model and have created PL Outline as a blueprint for your PL project.

In week 4 you will continue to build out your PL project through the week’s readings and discussion you will be exploring how to incorporate collaboration, modeling, and self-directed learning aspects into your PL project.

EDLD 5389 Developing Effective PL
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