Tacoma Community College

2005 Faculty Retreat
 Gandhi's List   Hurricane Relief Efforts (Nicholls State U., et al.)  
10 Minutes on Friday Morning  Educational Blogs for Beginners

September 15-16, 2005

GOALS

• Bring TCC faculty together to initiate the new academic year

• Work & learn collectively;

• Become better acquainted with one another;

• Explore an issue affecting learning & teaching at TCC

• Improve Teaching and Learning with Technology

• More...?

Why?

• Not Toast;  Emperor's Clothes?;
  30 Years Ago - Apple Graphics;
  Jennifer Keller, SRU
  Boudreaux Story/TLT-SWG

Too Many Options;  Can't Wait for Clarity & Stability!

• Fundamental Questions

• Fundamental Questions - Results

• Why Bother?

• Portfolio of Strategies for Collaborative Change

Miscellaneous

• Overloaditorium - an open blog for talking about overload

• ..More on Background Conditions

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Read in advance about "Connectedness"

• Edward Hallowell's  "Connectedness"
  chapter from Finding the Heart of the Child  with added intro by Steve Gilbert
• PDF printable version - more nicely formatted with briefer intro. This chapter is from the book: Finding the Heart of the
  Child: Essays on Children, Families, and Schools
  by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.
  To order a copy of this book, see: 
   http://www.drhallowell.com
  /store/finding_heart.html
   

• Activity:  Importance of Hallowell's
  Connectedness Categories

• Activity:  Crossword Puzzle about Hallowell's Connectedness Categories (& beyond)

• Queries for Connectedness

• [Read anything from
  the Web page you reach by clicking here - esp. Gandhi's List or the Hallowell piece]

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Read in advance about the "Net Generation"/"Millennials"

• Article (8pp. - PDF)
  Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials:
  Understanding the "New Students"
  Diana Oblinger,
  EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2003
  Volume 38, Number 4

• ...Click here for more readings...

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Consider "Dangerous Discussions" Questions about

Connectedness and the "Net Generation"/"Millennials"

1. How many and which of our students are “Net Generation” [or "Millennial"] learners?
    

2. How many and which of our students are more traditional learners?
    

3. What are important differences between these kinds of learners? Especially, but not only, with respect to their comfort with and frequency of use of information technology and multimedia?
    

4. To what extent should we modify our curriculum, teaching approaches, and learning options to be more appealing to "Net Generation" [or "Millennial"] learners? What are realistic options for doing so? What kinds of things must we change in order to do so? (e.g., technological infrastructure, curricular goals, training options available to ALL faculty, public access to computing resources, or handheld devices, ….)
    

5. To what extent should we modify our curriculum, teaching approaches, and learning options to better enable "Net Generation" [or "Millennial"] learners to take full advantage of more traditional learning options? To master more traditional skills still essential for success on many career paths? (e.g., analytical reading skills; writing skills) What are realistic options for doing so? What kinds of things must we change in order to do so? (e.g., technological infrastructure, curricular goals, training options available to ALL faculty, public access to computing resources, or handheld devices, ….)
    

6. AND similar questions about enabling “traditional” learners to take fuller advantage of “Net Generation” [or "Millennial"] style options.
    

7. AND similar questions about differences among teachers and other academic support professionals, administrators!  What kinds of accommodations should be planned for the first "Net Generation" [or "Millennial"] teachers? For teachers who are already more like "Net Generation" learners?

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How?

Preparation before Sept 15

• Read about "Connectedness"

• Read about "Net Generation"/"Millennials"

• Consider Connectedness/Net Gen Discussion Questions

4 Lists:  Connectedness, Net Gen, 7 Principles. 7 Options

Schedule for September 15

Related Topics, Resources
"Low-Threshold" Professional Development

 Becoming a MERLOT Member
[LTA of the Week #38]

Compassionate Pioneers

TLT Roundtable

Virtual TLT Centers (example: UTEP)

"Keeping Up"

Planning Universal, Collaborative, Hybrid/Blended
Lifelong Professional Development as Educators

Dangerous Discussions
 

What?
Which issues/topics?

TLT Group's Online Institute

Incremental Improvements for Online and Hybrid/Blended Courses

Dangerous Discussion: 
Class Size

Blogging for teaching/learning

EASI -Teaching, Disabilities and Technology
 

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Please send your questions or suggestions for improving our work together to Steve Gilbert at: 
GILBERT@TLTGROUP.ORG

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