We are really coming down the home stretch with only a few weeks left. Please make sure you are keeping up with the schedule as it is laid out on the Course Syllabus. We’ve arrived at the stage of the course where Scott and Cole will be peeling back and letting you dictate much of what goes on from here on out. We’ll still have things we want to discuss, but the onus is now going to be placed on you to drive the intellectual work of the course.
We will drive the first half of class and then turn it over to team two.
Symposium Debrief
We’d like to take a little time to debrief on the TLT Symposium. Then in your teams, take some time to discuss these questions and be ready to share your thoughts.
- Did you get a sense that there was a clear TLT community based on your interactions with the people there? What sort of evidence can you state as to whether it is a community?
- You’ve all been to traditional conferences, did the use of social media change the experience?
- What are some takeaways as it relates to your own future learning environments?
Transition to the Final Synthesis Activity
Based on your own intellectual pursuits and within the broader context of this class we’d like you to stake out an intellectual project. The overall goals of this activity are to encourage your teams to come to a shared position and introduce us all to a wider selection of literature. Each of you will work individually to discover and annotate resources that will be used as a major component of your team’s final synthesis presentation. You can present the final output for this in any form you would like (video, audio, text, digital story, etc), but it must be represented in some tangible artifact for the final synthesis.
Our goal is that this work be grounded in research, but move beyond the intellectual foundation we’ve provided through the readings we have assigned. Over the next several weeks, each of you must post at least one resource a week with annotations to support the citation.
Team Two will lead the second half of the day.