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I always look forward to an opportunity to explore what we can do as educators to enhance the learning environment. The following are a list of videos, links to blogs/articles and related resources that were used in a workshop for the Emergency Nursing instructors are BCIT. It is always a privilege to spend time exploring learning and achievement with such a group of dedicated educators.

Not Suited for School But Suited For Learning

Generation Tomorrow – Eddie Obeng, Zeitgeist Europe 2013

Time Travellers in the 21st Century

John Seely Brown On Education

Seely Brown suggest that we focus on the following three key factors to bring our learning into the 21st Century:

Knowledge/information – Pull from the Internet.
Skills – Pickup with mentoring.
Disposition – Foster the idea that learning can be an adventure.

How to Change People Who Don’t Want to Change | The Behavioral Science Guys

The BS Guys recommend that:

When you are trying to influence people who need motivation don’t give them more information….Use questions to help them explore motivations they may already have.

The Head Won’t Go Where the Heart Hasn’t Been

If you really want to bring about change in people then you need to appeal their hearts and not to their heads. The sharing of more information or engaging in more rational discourse on its own doesn’t appear to help people to make significant change but an appeal to values, attitudes, and feelings first can motivate people toward making changes.

See more at:
https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=5461

Fixed Vs Growth Mindset = Print Vs Digital Information Age

If we really want to take advantage of all the opportunities that the digital information age offers, we need to move away from fixed mindset to growth mindset thinking.

See more at:
https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=3627

John Hattie: Visible Learning Pt1. Disasters and below average methods.

Hattie argues:

“short of physical and psychological abuse, almost anything you do in the classroom will positively impact student achievement…key is to figure out what promotes achievement…”

John Hattie, Visible Learning. Pt 2: effective methods.

Teaching effects that really make a difference – above .40
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Positive Feedback: The PIPS Model

PIPS Model to providing effective feedback
P – Praise something specific
I – Improve – suggest ways
P – Positive overall praise
S – Supply an uplifting comment

After spending two full days in the Creating Significant Learning Environment (CSLE) workshop with some highly motivated faculty from School of Business at BCIT I am convinced that the future is very bright for BCIT students. Our primary focus was creating significant learning environments that would take advantage of technology to enhance learning. We explored using technology to enhance the face2face, flipped, hybrid or blended and fully online settings. All the technology related activities were grounded with well defined learning outcomes and we continually looked at the balance in aligning the outcomes with effective technology enhanced activities and assessments which confirmed the learning outcomes would be achieved.

The following are all the Youtube clips and related links used in the workshop as well as several of my favourites that we unable to view due to the lack of time.

CSLE slide deck in PDF – CSLE 2-Day SoB Workshop.pdf

How to instructions:

Introduce a concept

Start at 4:00 minute

Introduce a context & bridge into the subject

Start at 15:01

Introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for an online course

Introduce yourself and make a connection with students

Flipped classroom assignment
Link to Visible Learning assignment page

Humor & comic relief

Introduce the main point of an argument

Perhaps one of the best talks on learning & education – My favourite TED Talk

This just one of many TED talks that I recommend. If you go to TED.com and filter by “Most viewed” you will see Ken Robinson’s talks as well as Simon Sinek’s talk about Why and many more amazing talks.

My blog post The Power of Media in informal learning offers the insights that I have found in using media to help my two sons in their pursuit of becoming professional downhill racers.

Finally, to easily download video clips from youtube and embed them into your Powerpoint or Keynote programs (educational acceptable copyright permitting–check with your department or library) you can use the site clipconverter.cc

Enjoy!

Creating Significant Learning Environments – Core Summer Institute

ACU’s 21st Century Vision of educating Christ-centered, global leaders who think critically, globally and missionally requires us to create courses based on modern instructional design principles that incorporate significant, active and collaborative learning.

Learning Outcome – Upon completion of the CSLE – Core Summer Institute, faculty will have designed and built a student-centered university Core course that incorporates significant, active and collaborative learning.

May Session

Module 1

Tuesday May 11 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Wednesday May 12  – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM

Module 2

Thursday May 27 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Friday May 28 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM

Module 3

Monday August 9  – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Tuesday August 10 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM

 

Fall Session

Module 1

Thursday August 5 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Friday August 6- 10:00AM – 3:00 PM

Module 2

Group to determine the day and time in the week of September 13-17
Group to determine the day and time in the week of October 18-22
(We are willing to run duplicate/multiple sessions to accommodate the faculty involved)

Module 3

Thursday December 16 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM
Friday December 17 – 10:00AM – 3:00 PM