Hybrid Campus Workshop

Designing the Hybrid Campus
Architects Philip Parsons and Deepika Ross
January 30-31, 2002

Morning Activity Notes
Drawing on personal experience, participants shared a photograph, a brief text, or a physical object that evoked for them an intense moment of personal learning (e.g. with a friend or child or grandmother, at home or traveling, alone or in a group or a crowd), and/or a picture or object that evoked the learning of a new skill or area of expertise. In groups, they were to reexamine preconceptions about the settings in which successful learning takes place, and begin to consider the implications of these explorations for campus design.

real life experiences
emotional involvement "passion"
self-directed
personal stake in learning
change

discomfiort
knowing that learning is needed

learning to drive
learning to be organized
learning listening skills
learning the language/culture
learning to Learn-Quiet place
learning facilitator in law school
high school history - critique of E. Roosevelt book report

family farm of grandparents in MN

bringing premature twins home
"exploration" in CO and ME
years living in Iran and Saudi Arabia

value of freedom

journey from 5 star hotel manager to low cost motel bartender

AV tech
many other ways to do things

US Air Force Academy Plebe year

tough class, good instructor at ASU

love of reading transitioning to recognition of reading as learning
"newspaper" tradition, intergenerational knowledge sharing
storytelling
experiences
creation of context
realization and application of knowledge
failure
relationship building
trust
purpose
sense of accomplishment
in classroom as students "why?" - clarify students' purpose
getting over brick walls
learning to ride a horse
experiencing what happens if you play with matches
dental cleaning - avoid negative reinforcement statements
participation - Weight Watchers process
learning the correct way to use tools to repair or build things
learning through

social interactions (helping others)
cultural interaction (immersion program)
spontaneous interaction (student gathering)
family interaction (motorcycle Grandma)

rock climbing - active, hands-on, teamwork, mentoring
teaching computer programming - change from standard computers or desks to laptops - more visibility, flexibility, rearrangement
Good Teacher - traditional method and class engagement with subject, dynamic
subject - physics more hands on than math
role reversal - students work in group to teach other students (nonEuclid Geometry)
computers taught to solve problems (not exercise)
work independently (not alone)
teachable moment
positive role model

values education

conquer fear with action
many ways of knowing - our perceptions create realities
apply to non-academic situations ("real world")

next: afternoon discussion notes...