Title:
Cross-curriculum learning/teaching
Creating learning communities
Conveners:
Shelle Witten
Eileen Shiff
Participants:
Spencer Johnson
Breanna Collier
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Discussion:
- Restructuring education to mimic the real world, instead of creating the artificial world. Make it relevant.
- Flexibility. No walls. Learning available day and night. May be necessary to have a place to come for help.
- We talked about content versus structure.
- Facilitator vs. teacher
- Some relationship with learning styles.
- How to choose the disciplines to cross with.
- We're probably thinking in old paradigms, so it's hard to envision how it would like to combine curriculums.
- How would this look? People have learning opportunities in every interaction. Do we need a formal environment. Do computer nerds really need a formal, well-rounded education? Another example...with access to computers secretaries aren't as needed. Everybody is writing their own memos, using their own email, etc. This changes the occupational structure.
- What is it to be an educated person? One who is inquisitive, and has the wherewithal to find knowledge. Given this...our structure should be flexible enough that when information is needed, somebody is accessible to help with understanding that subject. This accessibility could be in person or electronically.
- For some learning styles face-to-face is needed, for some remote access is fine. Some need the visual.
- Maybe we need to change to more short term experiences.
- Let's have smart cards. You can swipe it every time you learn something.
- Question of assessment. How does a person prove she has really learned. Through discussion with a person or using some form of artificial intelligence.
- We may need a combination of internet technologies, videoconferencing.
- We need to have more people teaching who have expertise in more than one discipline. We could get some of our existing faculty trained in totally different areas.
Open Space Forum - 10.29.98 - Paradise Valley Community College
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