Comments on: Activities for Integrating Learning https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/04/sprints-for-integrating-learning/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Wed, 06 May 2015 12:37:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/04/sprints-for-integrating-learning/#comment-819589 Wed, 06 May 2015 12:37:27 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4293#comment-819589 Denis, no worries, your English is better than my any other language! I formalize the activity (e.g. aim the objective at a specific meaningful outcome) by the choice of deliverable. Based upon where they are and where I ask them to go, I should have chosen it such that they’ll have to investigate and experiment with and enact certain relationships in the world that I want them to come to grips with. I don’t believe in pure constructivism, so they’re scaffolded in this with resources (initially, gradually we’ll move to them finding/curating their own to develop their meta-learning skills) and people to ask (and oversight by mentors). It’s facilitated (I don’t think learning can be managed) by paying attention to their interactions: walking around looking at the groups working or the social media equivalent (tracking their actions).

So, for instance, if I wanted folks to understand games design, I might give teams a learning objective and ask them design a game to teach it (I do this in my game design workshops), with interim deliverables of a concept document, an initial storyboard, a more fleshed out storyboard, etc. For cybersecurity, I might flip the goal and ask them to hack a network!

The notion is to take an activity that they end up doing in the workplace, and mocking that up in the learning experience (perhaps with some simpler tasks that build to being able to do it. Does that help?

]]> By: Denis Tabellion https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/04/sprints-for-integrating-learning/#comment-819588 Wed, 06 May 2015 11:08:06 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4293#comment-819588 Dear Clark Quinn
Thanks for your analysis in “Activities for Integrating Learning”. My excuses for my low level in English writing.
However, I’m very interested by your work about the notion you call “activity-based learning”.
If I understand well, you postulate that:
1) you give the students an activity challenge (problematic situation?). This activity will give at the end a work (delivrable) after a definite time period (deadline). This work will be overwieved by peers or experts to be evaluate.
During the students working time, they can hold resources (human – self, peers or mentor and several sorts of documents – vidéo, texts, audio ….) to accomplish their work.
Question: How do you formalize that activity? By which way? How about managing it? Can you illustrate it by a concrete exemple?
Thanks a lot for your answers. Denis Tabellion (France)

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