Safe Learning Environments

Activities:

• Icon Jam (Intentionally Promoting Cultural Voice and Choice in Open and Safe Learning Environments)

Resources:

http://edmedia.tlc.sfu.ca/dropin/gv18/

http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2017/11/25/creativity-in-the-open-workshop/

What is a Safe Learning Environment?

http://linoit.com/users/verenanz1/canvases/Safe%20Learning%20Spaces%20

"Though we want to emphasize again that we don’t believe a single replicable model is possible—or desirable—we have identified what we believe are a series of design principles that can be of value in building or facilitating learning spaces: (Kral & Schwab, 2015)

Design Principle 1: A space young people control

Design Principle 2: A space for hanging out and ‘mucking around’

Design Principle 3: A space where learners learn

Design Principle 4: A space to grow into new roles and responsibilities

Design Principle 5: A space to practice oral and written language

Design Principle 6: A space to express self and cultural identity through multimodal forms

Design Principle 7: A space to develop and engage in enterprise

Design Principle 8: A space to engage with the world"

Retrieved from: Learning Spaces Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia - Chapter 4 http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p197731/pdf/ch041.pdf

Resources:

• 12 Ways to Create a Safe and Effective Space for Student Learning
• 4 Ways to Create Safe Learning Environments for Your Students
• A Classroom Where Everyone Feels Welcome
• 20 Tips for Creating A Safe Learning Environment
• Crafting Culturally Safe Learning Spaces: A Story of Collaboration Between an Educational Institution and Two First Nation Communities
• Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
• The Techy Teacher : Creating a Safe Digital Space
• Upending the Hierarchy of Learning

Acknowledging our Land, Learning Space and our Learners

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Explained