Teaching and reinforcing efficient use of time for high school students may have more to do with ease of access to study materials than anything else. Here is a process for re-evaluating the public school locker concept; one that has not changed since the 1950's.
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Companion website is located at
https://northeastern.digication.com/blened_learning_workshop
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
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Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Process Design: Re-evaluating Public School Locker Concept
1. Problem: Suppose you have been hired to re-design
the student lockers at a large public high school. What
PROCESS would you use to tackle this project?
Describe the most important steps.
Submitted by: Tina Gregory for Design Thinking Action Labs – Creative Art Spaces Team
2. Observe
• How are students using lockers now, if at all?
• How are they currently getting learning materials to where they need them?
• What difficulties can you see with the methods currently used to ensure that
learning materials are where they are most useful to students?
• Do the current methods work for all or most students (old, young, tall, short,
abled or disabled?) If not, who has additional obstacles and what are these
additional shortcomings?
• Draw or jot down what you see, any method will do.
3. Communicate with Users
• Talk with students:
1) How do you use your locker?
2) Is it easy to access
3) Does it fit all you stuff
4) Does it help you have the things
you need on hand, when you
need them, for class or study,
etc.?
5) What do you need to have for
each class?
6) Etc.
4. Evaluate
• Now evaluate the spaces that students, their teachers, administrators,
parents and other social interactors use each day
– Look at specifics about the interactions (are they standing, sitting,
both…)
– Do the interactors move within the space or are they mostly static?
– Are they balancing things, holding things in their hands, using
headphones, etc.
– When do the interactors seem most comfortable? Least comfortable?
• Do the spaces ever change from day to day? Do they need to?
• What are common items the interactors have with them (laptops, books,
pencils, iPods, etc.
• Does the space have natural light? Artificial light? Colors?
6. Test Ideas Live
• Run ideas by stakeholders and participants
• Get Action Teams together
• Test each idea within Action Teams
• Action Teams present results to other
teams/stakeholders
7. Funding and Sourcing for
Implementation
• Ideas may best effective, tested and innovative, but if they lack
funding and
• Reasonably reliable support from investing parties
THEY WILL DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH!
8. Funding and Sourcing
• Public funding / bond funding
• Angel investors
• Corporate supporters and investors, including
targeted solution hardware/software providers
• Community outreach
