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Agenda Teaching Transformation
• Nature of collaboration• Discover Your Gifts™ programiscover Your Gifts program• Personal Learning Framework™• Learning StylesLearning Styles
– VARK Assessment– Myers Briggs Assessmenty gg
• Project Based Learning• Outcomes• Download worksheet
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How can different learning styles learn together?
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learn together?Copyright Warner Brothers
Transformational Teams
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Collaboration and Learning StylesCollaborative projects h ll h l i
Collaboration and Learning Styles
have all the learning styles working together in the same song.
Kitale, Kenya youth group conferenceyouth group conference song to boost parental sponsorship.
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We learn by positive “packing”Pack to Serve
• The Team• Help• Encourage• CoachCoach• Collaborate• Leverage competence• Strife builds characterStrife builds character• Manage life• Built on successes• Hope of a better futureCopyright Rclose Downtown Learning Center 2007 • Hope of a better future• Prosperity
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We learn by negative “packing”
Pack from fearThe Gang Tribe– The Gang ‐ Tribe
– Intimidate– Slander– Suppress– The world hates me– Leverage fearLeverage fear– Anger– AddictionEnforced failures– Enforced failures
– Crime cycles– Resulting in poverty
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Or we go alongThe Lone Wolf
• Isolated• It’s about me• Rejection• No one cares• I don’t need anyone• Depression• On strife… We avoid risk • One day at a time• Whatever attitude• What future?What future?• Just hanging out in media• Private povertyCopyright RClose Downtown Learning Center 2007
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Will our students bef l d bTransformational Leaders Or Labor?
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Discover Your Gifts™ ProgramDiscover Your Gifts Program
• Bridgeport Rescue Mission g pLearning Centers 2011
• Men & Women Learning C t b Ch liCenters by Chrysalis Campaign, Inc.
• Poverty and Trauma IssuesPoverty and Trauma Issues• Adult Learning for 18 Women• UNESCO Based Life Skills• “Freedom Writers” Case• “Discover your Gifts” lessons
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What are gifts?
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“A learning style is your gift from God. It is what makes you unique and beautiful. It is how the world needs you. “
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Personal Learning Framework™The individual part of the Global Learning Framework™
The Creative Loop
CollaborativeInput
Personal Processing
Collaborative Output
PerceptualFilters
Production Competencies
How we perceive, process and produce
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Personal Learning Framework™Personal Learning Framework
The Creative Loop
Collaborative Personal Collaborative
The Creative Loop
Perceptualil
Production How we perceive, process and produce
Input Processing Output Filters Competencies
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How am I special? ‐ PerceptionHow am I special? Perception
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Personal Learning Framework™Personal Learning Framework
The Creative Loop
Collaborative Personal Collaborative
The Creative Loop
Perceptualil
Production How we perceive, process and produce
Input Processing Output Filters Competencies
Visual Sight preference(V)
Aural Hearing preference (A)
Read/write Reading preference (R)/ g p ( )
Kinesthetic Doing preference (K)
M lti d l lti l (MM)
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Multimodalmultiple ways (MM)Fleming, N. (2001) VARK Learning Questionnaire. 5,22,2013, from http://www.vark‐learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
Take the QuestionnaireTake the Questionnaire
T k h VARK• Take the VARK Questionnaire
• Link is on worksheet• Link is on worksheet• http://www.vark‐learn com/english/pagelearn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
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Download Di ithStudy Guides for
Learning StylesDiscuss with your group or write
Wh t h b– What have been my study habits?
– What worked and
VisualStudy Strategies (V)
Aural What worked and did not work?
– After reviewing these
Study Strategies (A)
Read/writeStudy Strategies (R)
SWAT guides, what can I change to improve how I learn?
y g ( )
KinestheticStudy Strategies (K)
Multimodal improve how I learn?MultimodalStudy Strategies (MM)
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Tips for coaching a group in learning stylesTips for coaching a group in learning styles
• Everyone is different just like the different flowers in a garden. None is better than the other.
• If you are auditory style learner have them talk under their breath when taking tests or reading instructions.their breath when taking tests or reading instructions.
• Do not fight your style… Use it to your advantage.• Listen to other peoples styles as they talk. Talk to them
in their learning style or they will not understand you.• Who is close to you in life perceives things differently
than you, how and why?than you, how and why?• When you interview for a job ask the employer who
would be the ideal person for the job? List and you will hear their learning style Respond in their style
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hear their learning style. Respond in their style.
How am I special? ‐ ProcessingHow am I special? Processing
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Personal Learning Framework™Personal Learning Framework
The Creative Loop
Collaborative Personal Collaborative
The Creative Loop
Perceptualk ll
Production How we perceive, process and produce
Input Processing Output Skills Competencies
Favorite world: Introvert (I) or Extravert (E)
Information: Sensing (S) or Intuiting (N):
Decisions: Thinking (T): or Feeling (F):
Structure: Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
from: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my‐mbti‐lit t / bti b i /
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personality‐type/mbti‐basics/
Take the Intelligence QuestionnaireTake the Intelligence Questionnaire
Goto: http://www.capt.org/take‐
/mbti‐assessment/contact.htm
Link is on class worksheet
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Based on your Myers Briggs questionnaire, reflect on your profile and on how you react and interact with y p ythe world.
Discuss with your group or writescuss t you g oup o te– What is my Myers Briggs profile?– Do I agree or disagree with the profile? Why?
– Does this explain why I have or have not fit in with jobs or bosses?not fit in with jobs or bosses?
– Does this explain why I have or have not fit in with family and friends?
– What might I do differently in life based on knowledge of these profiles?
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profiles?
Trans‐contextual Thinking
• A neurological way of d t ti b idemonstrating being fully engaged.
• Trans‐contextualTrans contextual thinking: linking elements that normall don’t
Craig, Joy
normally don’t go together.
• This Is Your Brain On Type Dario Nardi, San Diego, CA March 2008
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http://www.keys2cognition.com/papers/EEGandSocialCognition.pdf
Tips for coaching a group on personalitiesTips for coaching a group on personalities
• Everyone is different just like the different flowers in a garden. None is better than the other.
• Do not fight your profile… Use it to your advantage.• Listen to other people’s styles as they talk. Talk to them about things that matter most to their profile.
• Name someone who is close to you who has• Name someone who is close to you, who has different learning styles than you, how are they different?
• When you interview for a job, ask the employer who would be the ideal person for the job? Listen and you will hear their profile.
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How am I special? ‐ CreatingHow am I special? Creating
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Personal Learning Framework™Personal Learning Framework
The Creative Loop
Collaborative Personal Collaborative
The Creative Loop
Perceptuall
Production i
How we perceive, process and produce
Input Processing Output Filters Competencies
• Communication Competencies• Creative Competencies• Creative Competencies (art ,music etc.)
• Workforce Skills• Life Skills • Literacy Competencies• Cultural Competencies
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How am I special? ‐ Produce
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Magic of Project Based LearningMagic of Project Based Learning
Is intended to teach significant content Is intended to teach significant content Requires critical thinking, problem solving,
collaboration, and various forms of communication Requires inquiry as part of the process of learning Requires inquiry as part of the process of learning
and creating something new Is organized around an open‐ended Driving
Question
http://www.bie.org/about/th bi /
Creates a need to know essential content and skills Allows some degree of student voice and choice Includes processes for revision and reflectionhe_bie_story/ Includes processes for revision and reflection They create, and are asked to think about what
and how they are learning Involves a public audience
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Involves a public audience
You can use the PBL tools you have h h ld ’ lnow to change our children’s lives
• Teach within the curriculum
• Solve issues with Internet
• Teach problem solving
• Teach collaboration
• Trust the students
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How am I special? ‐ Collaborationp
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Personal Learning Framework™Personal Learning Framework
The Creative Loop
Collaborative Personal Collaborative
The Creative Loop
Perceptualil
Production How we perceive, process and produce
Input Processing Output Filters Competencies
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Personal Learning Environment Framework – IEEEH d i th t iHow we process and organize on the matrix
Self‐organized learning
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Learning Technology publication of IEEE Computer Society’s, July 2009, Volume 11 Issue 3, from http://lttf.ieee.org/issues/july2009/index.html
Personal Learning Framework™Personal Learning Framework
The Creative Loop
CollaborativeInput
Personal Processing
Collaborative Output
PerceptualFilters
Production Competencies
How we perceive, process and produce
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Why PBL brings it all togetherh f ll bThe power of collaboration
I takes different types to ypmake the world go round
We need to understand h h fit i t thhow each fit into the whole
We need otherWe need other viewpoints on a problem
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how we learn, process and create
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Personal Learning Framework™ ‐ Learning Cycles
• What we Perceive
ProduceCreative Content
Perceived Objective Content
– Content Pushed in – Content Pulled in– Content Collaboration
• What we ProduceProcess
Knowledge & Contexts in What we Produce
– Adoption – Validation Trial and error– Interaction with the world
• How we ProcessPhysical
Non Physical
Contexts in Matrix
Frameworks
• How we Process– Learning Styles– Life Skills create filters– Life Skills impact motivators
Context collaboration Personal Cognitive
Non‐Physical
– Context collaboration– Time and space independent
• Motivators & Values– Life Skills – Values – Media Culture
Personal Cognitive Frameworks
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– Character –Religion – Family Culture– Reflective processes
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OutcomesTransforming people into Life Learners who love:• one another • the curiosity of exploring• contributing in teamsg• solving problems• helping others
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e p g ot e s• life
The world is waiting…
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QuestionsBy Richard C. CloseThe Chrysalis Campaign, Inc.N Milf d CT 06776New Milford, CT [email protected]: iamafricastory
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UNESCO PPN Digital Storytelling sitehttp://this‐is‐my‐story.ning.comhttp://this is my story.ning.com
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Presentation developed for SUNY Empire State Masters Adult Learning program Learning Styles course
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