Patricia Simon replied to Ralph Cordova's discussion Reflecting on the 2012 ISI Orientation: Tuesday May 1, 2012 in the group 2012 Invitational Summer Institute
Hilary Wagenblast replied to Ralph Cordova's discussion Reflecting on the 2012 ISI Orientation: Tuesday May 1, 2012 in the group 2012 Invitational Summer Institute
Amy Kloss replied to Ralph Cordova's discussion Reflecting on the 2012 ISI Orientation: Tuesday May 1, 2012 in the group 2012 Invitational Summer InstituteAt this point I have not yet decided on what I will do for the IIMP activity.As usual ending of a school year fills my mind with grading, paperwork, etc.
I hope have a plan soon and will be able to respond to some of the questions for thought on this within the next week.
Pat Simon
Posted by Patricia Simon on May 21, 2012 at 3:15pm
Orientation on May 1st helped define what will be expected of this Writing Project, at least in part. However, I am curious about the format of this project/class other than the IIMP model we saw demonstrated.
The artical we read and discussed seemed a bit idealistic since I have seen several attempts throughout my teaching experience to impliment collaberative time, which were later removed. Financial concerns were often the issue in allowing collaberative time for teachers. The…
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On Monday October 23, 2011 The Saint Louis Art Museum's Monet Exhibition "The Waterlillies" from from a "potential text to be read" to an multimodal resource for learning interacted with and learned from with ResponsiveDesign™, the CoLab's theory of action.
CoLab and Interchange educators got to know each other and pursue their professional learning in an evening where the museum would become a cultural landscape for learning.
In order to develop a shared language on interdisciplinary actions, we unpacked what artists, musicians and dancers do in their respective fields. Then we rotated around each set of practices that were written on chart paper that eventuated in distilling the top most essential practices from within each field. We then silently created a concept map of the relationship among those disciplinary actions. We learned that artists, dancers & musicians all go about their work as meaning-makers in particular ways particular to their disciplines.
However, when viewed from a more distanced perspective, the functions of how they go about their works is identical across all disciplines: explore, collaborate, analyze, document, synthesize story-tell, etc.
We would then take these three disciplines an embody them during Mike's IIMP (Inquiry Into My Practice) as he guided us in a scaffolded processes of interacting with and learning from Monet's Water Lillies as multiple texts to be read.
Knowing that disciplinary actions are distinctive from one another and generally related to each other as forms is one thing. Exploring the relationship among them through and experiential process, and, the insights that emerge from simultaneously kinesthetically, aesthetically and intellectually engaging through concept-formation is altogether different.
By having developed a shared language, or frame of reference, through which we would engage in subsequent experiences, the several communities of educators, became one experiential organism that began to interact with each other and learn form our respective experiences as educators from our own cultural landscapes.
Mike and Ralph guided the Monet experiences by first engaging in a Prefacing professional dialogue grounded in our ResponsiveDesign™ methdology to articulate what the lead teacher (Mike) would explore, envision and enact in his lesson that he will prototype and "test" or crow-source in realtime.
In a consequentially progressive scaffolded process, we were guided into trying one multiple ways of seeing the Monet from broad-looking, narrow-looking, moving into the piece, sketching a part of the piece we wanted to own and representing the piece by enacting colors, shapes and lines that we began to see.
We became instruments, each of us, bringing sound to our own part of the Monet in a cacophony of beautifully and discordant sounds. Mike, helped us to become one larger organism, a soundscape making creature, that helped the Monet develop sounds and voices to its luscious and peaceful visual beauty that it is.
Our SizzleReel for the REDtalk Ann Taylor and I gave at Stanford University's d.School's REDlab on September 15, 2011.
Dr. Shelley Goldman, director of Stanford University's d.School's REDlab invited Ralph Córdova and Ann Taylor to give a REDtalk at their Intersection of Design in Education conference September 16 - 17.
On Day 1: September 15, 2011 all invitees gave their REDtalks. There were three clusters of talks around three themes: 1. Research in Design in Schools, 2. in Teacher Education and Professional Development Settings, and, 3. Researcher into the larger field of education and design.
After each cluster of talks, we created smaller groups to confabulate and tease out the main themes. Here, TayTay reports what her smaller group uncovered after cluster theme #1:
Patti then reported what her group teased out from cluster #1 REDtalks
As you can see, we got right into the throes of the discussion.
I have been reading, "Shaping School Culture" by Deal and Peterson. It has struck me quite distinctly that so many of the ideas behind understanding, restructuring and shaping school cultures have…Continue
Started by Jean Heil in The CoLab Jan 16.
Dear Colleagues: On Thursday November 17, 2011, The Piasa Bluffs Writing Project as part of the CoLab led a session at the NWP Annual Meeting titled: The CoLab is at the Intersection of Education and…Continue
Started by Ralph Cordova in The CoLab Nov 28, 2011.
Looking at this blog post gives me thoughts about the potential for learning when there is a strong foundation of Responsive Design: …Continue
Started by Jessica Pilgreen in The CoLab Nov 25, 2011.
As we listen to the interview, think about connections between Berko's ideas and findings as technologies, or lenses, that help us tighten, rethink and or re-see our own individual and collective…Continue
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