https://youtu.be/BopduYXWuUg


Here, is a look back to the digital assignment in PIDP 3240 'Creating a Spring Garden Basket' March 2014. Seems like a good idea as I am thinking and visualizing how I will create the PIDP 3250 Assignment # 1 Instruction Strategies Digital Project.

Educational Links for Instructors / Learners

As I work away at the long list of PIDP 3250 Forum Discussion topics I want to be sure I reflect on in my blog. I am amazed at how the instructional strategies, we are learning about, are actually built into the curriculum of this course. Here are two I want to discuss:

Group Work:

It can be exciting and challenging to work with a group on a project. The excitement comes from the different ideas and styles blending to create something greater than what just one person could have dreamed. The challenges come with the personalities and characteristics of each member. How do they handle aspects of control (taking and sharing), what are their work habits, do they get along with others? Who works well under pressure, who prefers to plan ahead to avoid pitfalls, who shares or takes the credit. What are the differing values of each member and how will it all play out?

If the project is not set up to consider and manage the project and the diverse behaviours that are bound to occur then the negative results fall on the reputation of each member. Additional, negative reflection on anyone in the group identified as the lead. If things go badly there can be lasting impact on the co-workers going forward.

A good example of a familiar mix of how the work that needs to get done is divided among four group members:

1. Completes 90% of the work 
2. Has no idea what is going on the whole time 
3. Says is going to help...and isn't 
4. Disappears at the beginning of the project and doesn't show up until the end

Funny picture demonstrating this example: group-work.jpg

Elizabeth Barkley gives us some great tips and strategies in her great text, 'Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty' suggesting syllabus review at the onset, establishing group ground rules, and a group learning contract.

Powerless form of communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ffqEA8X5g&feature=youtu.be

http://www.skillsyouneed.com/lead/develop-leadership-style.html

https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-secret-recipe-for-successful-working-group-meetings/

http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047028191X.html Elizabeth F Barkely, Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, pp 119 to


Flipped Classroom:

As me and my course mates are busy participating in the Discussion Forum on 'Flipped Classrooms' it took us awhile to realize that we were in one!

The 'flip' in the 'flip' is using face-to-face time to bring together the learner all of the students went out into the world or our textbooks to find. Digging deep into the details on their our own time. The teacher there when we need support and otherwise letting us the learners find our way to the answer.

I like the comment about flipped classroom on the website www.edutopis.org..."video lectures at home and homework in the class".

Here is a link on the subject: http://www.edutopia.org/search-results?search=flipped%20classrooms

Brilliant execution I must say!

Learning Style Preferences -- Apparently a Myth

Somewhere, along the line, I learnt my learning style preference is visual (I can hear myself telling others - I am a visual learner please show me what you mean). The source of this past information (fact I believed about myself) has been long forgotten.

This week in the PIDP 3250 Instructional Strategies course I am experiencing the pleasure of hosting a Discussion Forum on the topic of Learning Styles. It was most surprising to learn that the topic of Learning Styles Preferences has been the subject of a multitude of research / studies undertaken this decade to confirm a direct correlation with learning style preferences and learning outcomes and the proof has been in-conclusive.

For a sample of this you can check out the e-article 'The Myth of Learning Styles' written by Christopher Pappas, August 6, 2013 by clicking this link: http://elearningindustry.com/the-myth-of-learning-styles

Active Learning Results in Physical Changes (Pathways) in the Structure of Your Brain

I started playing the guitar when I was a young teenager because I enjoyed the music that was being played around me. Watching and being shown (so patiently) how to break down the pieces of music I needed help with. This brought me lots of joy and was a good way to express myself. 

At a later stage I wanted more and so I began classical guitar lessons (achieving my Grade 6 Royal Conservatory with the require level of musical theory Grade 1). This taught me many things which I am thankful for today. However, it also coincided with the end to the feelings of joy I experienced when I played my guitar (with others and myself).

Slowly, the fun part has been returning and I have begun pursuing a refresher on music theory this year (encouraged by a colleague) with the goal of passing advanced theory — I have the help of an excellent tutor.

This past year I have earnestly been studying, analyzing, writing musical notations, and looking at scale patterns... and I wonder: “Will ever be able to reach my goal of letting it go and just play the guitar without hitting wrong notes”!

One of the textbooks for the PIDP 3250 course is 'Student Engagement Techniques; A Handbook for College Faculty' written by Elizabeth F. Barkley and published by Jossey-Bass, San Francisco. Chapter 3: Engagement and Active Leaning includes a section The Cognitive Basis of Active Learning which begins on page 17 that explains what happens in the brain when we learn and how there is a state of readiness between taking in information (learning the theory of something new) and applying it with active learning. 

I now have renewed hope (motivation) that if I apply what I learn, while in the ready state, YES! I can achieve my long sought after goal — mastering my fretboard!

Vancouver Community College School of Instructor Education Facebook link

Here is the Facebook link to the Vancouver Community College School of Instructor Education:  https://www.facebook.com/VCCSchoolOfInstructorEducation#

PIDP Blogs I follow:

Atoosha Zargar

Karon Wong

Henry Stavast

Melissa Nuttall

Leslie Montgomery

Ken Izumi

Sylvia Faser

John Coomber

Alena Buis

Shelley Killeen

Jennifer  Aarestad

Nripjeet Randhawa

http://www.911cheferic.com

Megan Bukta

Ruth Davis

Karen Deol

Emma Leigha Munro

Todd Turton

A Jam NOT a Performance!

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