Well, the UVA ball is off and rolling. In my last post, I hinted at a collaboration between a UVA course in the design of learning environments and "think:lab" was going to soon kick-off. Delighted to see the course instructor (and a colleague of mine), Rebecca, offer up the following in a recent comment she left here:
As the "instructor" in this nuevo-virtual dynamic, I really don’t know where this is going to take me or where it is going to take my students.
What am I going to learn about myself as a teacher?
As an educational researcher, it challenges me to think about how we document the "downstream" effects of an intervention, see the manifestations of distant transfer in action. An elusive link.
As an arts education advocate, I laugh at the notion of assessing student performance through the variables content standards and contact hours. True, deep and meaningful learning experiences are complex and messy. Most importantly, they are unpredictable.
Considering the rising momentum of the "by any means necessary" web 2.0 conversations beginning to enter classrooms large and small, I applaud Rebecca for offering her students a chance to test the blogging waters. Love that she's as interested in what impact it will have on her teaching as much as it will have on her students.
Read the rest of her comment here. And if you value her instincts to add a blogging component to her students' course experience, esp. in such a collaborative manner, leave a comment for her here. Or send her (and her students) and email here. Either way, but I know it'd be greatly appreciated!
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