Week 19 Reflective Practice
Contribution of Teacher Inquiry Topics to my Communities of Practice
Reflective Model - Jay and Johnson
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Today I’m writing on two different topics that I find inspiring to focus on. The first is the development of a makerspace community in a landscape of practice.( Wenger) At the moment the landscape looks like this:
Members of both communities of practice are aiming for the same goals, although the students might not explain it in these words. I would like to see if I can develop both communities so there are more links between them, by adding a range of makerspace activities. Members of both communities would expand their knowledge and develop a shared identity. Interaction between the two groups would become more social and would be voluntary. Care would need to be taken so students welcome teachers as participants in their group; and teachers embrace the students’ philosophy of fun, relaxation, and challenge on a voluntary basis. Both groups would be expected to develop a growth mindset, by focusing on strategies to improve, and experiencing failure as a learning step for example. Maker culture develops self-organised groups, and can be practised in informal settings like a library It has its basis in Constructionism.
This image shows what I hope will be the outcome.
My second focus topic is to work with a group of teachers to develop the 21st century competencies and qualities of curiosity and communication in our students. Our students do not display much curiosity - whether this is because I can’t find a way to observe or measure it, or am looking for it in the wrong places I’m not sure. I would like to see if I can develop some strategies to arouse curiosity in the students and communicate about this in some way. I am reading about slow assessment to see if this gives me some ideas. I would tap into two communities of practice to achieve this - the teachers in our school and the Librarian community of practise I belong to. The librarian network is a virtual community as well as a face-to-face group, so from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds but all with a passion for librarianship.
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Maker culture Maker Culture from the Innovating Pedagogy report (2013).
Dweck, Carol 2015 Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset' https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/community-resources/2016/06/DweckEducationWeek.pdf
Dweck, Carol 2016
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Schon, S, Ebner, M, Kumar, S (2014) The Maker Movement. Implications of new digital gadgets, fabrication tools and spaces for creative learning and teaching https://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/sites/default/files/asset/Learning%20in%20cyber-physical%20worlds_In-depth_39_2_0.pdf
Slow assessment (http://www.ala.org/acrl/
Wenger, E. Learning in Landscapes of Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn3joQSQm4o
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