Project 1 actually has six parts / assignments, each of which is submitted to Canvas for points. Here they are (due dates are on the Calendar page):
Textbook reading
The Reading Plan
Models of Inquiry
Blog Post
Creation of your Digital LearningLeader shell website
Project 1 / Philosophy statement based on four topical areas of the reading plan
Project 1 Challenge: Create your philosophy statement as a Digital Learning Leader as you partner with classroom teacher, professor, or on a teaching team in an organization. This project follows the Think Model: Read, View, Listen from the textbook: Beyond Bird Units. It is a self-directed learning project. This means that each person in the class will decide what you already know; what you need to know; and how to get there (a reading, viewing, and listening plan).
Get your mind around the idea of becoming a Digital Learning Leader and check out the sample portfolios on the DLL site at: https://sites.google.com/view/digital-learning-leader/home
Check out the "Getting Started" page on the DLL site. Think about who you want to impress with your philosophy section of the portfolio.
Develop your "Reading Plan" and submit it to the professor on Canvas. How are you going to do this?
Check out the various types of learning experience pages on the DLL website. All the projects of this class will help you develop your skill in creating various types of learning experiences of the DLL model. What types of experiences have you experienced yourself? Which ones will you want to master?
Examine the LIIIITES model. Are there roles you need to pursue and develop? https://sites.google.com/view/liiiitesmodel/home
Take a look at the School-wide Learning Commons website. What kind of learning environment can you create across the entire organization? https://sites.google.com/view/wholeschoollearningcommons/home
What are the major challenges of teaching and learning during the pandemic? Can you find some great ideas that are being taught out there?
Now, take your own self test of what you know and want to learn about four major topical areas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JMAKp24UW4Sv8URAMdV5ASZffSjQdtoMJjtM9kMGcWE/edit
Spend time thinking about how much you can learn in our first month. There is more to learn than possible, so you will need to focus your efforts
Develop your reading viewing and listening plan and submit it to the professor one week after workshop 1.
Now get started reading, viewing and listening and have at least ten items completed by workshop two.
The professor will expect you to have consumed at least 40 items before you create your philosophy.
Summary: Project 1: An Overview of Your Self-Directed Learning Experience
Umbrella Central Question:
Theoretically, can the Library Learning Commons and its professional staff make a major difference in teaching and learning that goes on today?
Content Objectives:
Each student will create and follow their own reading plan to build a solid theoretical base in four topical areas. and other websites.
From the reading plan, each student will then contribute substantive summaries of only the best items to the course blog.
Process Objective:
Each student will be able to utilize various technologies and resources effectively in order to build a deeper understanding of the four topical areas.
Assessment:
Content: Students will be assessed on how well they followed their own reading plan to build their content knowledge. Each student should write a substantive personal; a personal philosophy of teaching and learning that can be a part of the Digital Learning Leader portfolio. Preface this essay with a summary of your journey
Process: Students will demonstrate their ability to utilize and apply the techniques of collective knowledge building as they contribute to the various activities of the entire class.
Summary of your self-directed learning activities:
Assess what you already know about four main topics:
Educational Theory and Practice; Curriculum and Assessment
Collaboration and coteaching
Inquiry and Design thinking
Technology that boosts teaching and learning
Pursue the ideas, adding the most relevant to the course blog.
Participate actively during all the workshops as theoretical ideas are discussed. Do you have unique ideas of your own to add to the pot?
By the fourth workshop, prepare your personal philosophy statement for your portfolio but submit it in the project 1 slot on Canvas.
Culminating Activity: All semester long, the thinking, construction and building theoretical and real learning experiences together will constitute a constant demonstration activity of what we know and are able to do based on the theory base we are all developing individually.
The Big Think: At the end of the semester, we will reflect on what has happened, how it worked, and how it could be better for future students.
Project 1 is a self-directed learning experience.
This means that you are in charge of deciding what you want and need to learn, pursuing your own journey, and then reporting out what you have learned.
Each member of the class starts at a different place and every person will end up in a different place, although there is plenty of opportunity to combine what you know and can do with other members of the class.
Novices need not panic at the immensity of the task. Likewise, experienced educators should not presume they are experts and have already arrived. We will all try to help everyone else in the class along the path. We are not in competition...
The why of Project 1 is to prepare you as a librarian to use the very best teaching and learning strategies as you co-teach alongside educators of many disciplines.