Designing Student-centered
Learning Experiences
1.Agenda for the Day
2.GOA and its Mission
3.Teaching as Wayfinding
9:40-10:30: Workshop Round 1 (Choose One)
Best Practices in Instructional Design
The Power of Video
Class Tour: Designing Student-centered Assessments
Class Tour: Crowdsourcing - Students as Content Curators
10:30-10:40: Break
10:40-11:30: Workshop Round 2
11:30-12: Closing Presentation/Reflection Activity
GOA and its Mission
1500+
STUDENTS
75+TEACHERS
60SCHOOLS
MISSION-DRIVEN, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
Teachers & students
are located across
multiple times zones
Students commit
5-7 hours per week
to a single course
Classes gather
asynchronously
with no set time
Students collaborate
on projects
and discussions
The Global Online Academy
Student Experience
Global Perspectives
Academic Excellence
Passion-driven Learning
Meaningful Relationships
Teaching as Wayfinding
Wayfinding
Simplifying a Complex System
4
Teachers have always been guides in worlds they have designed…
5
Asia Society Global Competencies:
Investigate the World
Take Action
Weigh Perspectives
Communicate Ideas
Apply Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Expertise(source: http://asiasociety.org/global-competence)
danah boyd
“Streams of Content, Limited
Attention: the Flow of Information
through Social Media” Educause
Review Online
“Making content work in a
networked era is going to be
about living in the streams,
consuming and producing
alongside ‘customers’ —
consuming to understand,
producing to be relevant…”
Demand for New Skills
Thomas Friedman
NY Times January 30, 2013
(Referring to The World Is Flat)
“...When I wrote [The World is
Flat], Facebook, Twitter, cloud
computing, LinkedIn, 4G
wireless, ultra-high-speed
bandwidth, big data, Skype,...
iPhones, iPods, iPads and
cellphone apps didn’t exist, or
were in their infancy.”
danah boyd
“Streams of Content, Limited
Attention: the Flow of Information
through Social Media” Educause
Review Online
“We need tools that allow
people to more easily
contextualize relevant
content regardless of
where they are and what
they are doing…”
Learning Experience
Teacher Wayfinder
7
Design
InteractionCommunal
Work
Experience
7
How do you make students your
collaborators in generating
content and meaning?
Design
What do you want students to do? What learning
paths do you need to design?
Interaction
How do you create an environment in which
students engage as members of a learning
community?
Communal Work

Nobles 2 2015

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    1.Agenda for theDay 2.GOA and its Mission 3.Teaching as Wayfinding
  • 5.
    9:40-10:30: Workshop Round1 (Choose One) Best Practices in Instructional Design The Power of Video Class Tour: Designing Student-centered Assessments Class Tour: Crowdsourcing - Students as Content Curators 10:30-10:40: Break 10:40-11:30: Workshop Round 2 11:30-12: Closing Presentation/Reflection Activity
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    GOA and itsMission
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  • 8.
    SUN MON TUEWED THU FRI SAT Teachers & students are located across multiple times zones Students commit 5-7 hours per week to a single course Classes gather asynchronously with no set time Students collaborate on projects and discussions
  • 9.
    The Global OnlineAcademy Student Experience Global Perspectives Academic Excellence Passion-driven Learning Meaningful Relationships
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    4 Teachers have alwaysbeen guides in worlds they have designed…
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    5 Asia Society GlobalCompetencies: Investigate the World Take Action Weigh Perspectives Communicate Ideas Apply Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Expertise(source: http://asiasociety.org/global-competence)
  • 17.
    danah boyd “Streams ofContent, Limited Attention: the Flow of Information through Social Media” Educause Review Online “Making content work in a networked era is going to be about living in the streams, consuming and producing alongside ‘customers’ — consuming to understand, producing to be relevant…” Demand for New Skills
  • 18.
    Thomas Friedman NY TimesJanuary 30, 2013 (Referring to The World Is Flat) “...When I wrote [The World is Flat], Facebook, Twitter, cloud computing, LinkedIn, 4G wireless, ultra-high-speed bandwidth, big data, Skype,... iPhones, iPods, iPads and cellphone apps didn’t exist, or were in their infancy.”
  • 19.
    danah boyd “Streams ofContent, Limited Attention: the Flow of Information through Social Media” Educause Review Online “We need tools that allow people to more easily contextualize relevant content regardless of where they are and what they are doing…”
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    7 How do youmake students your collaborators in generating content and meaning? Design What do you want students to do? What learning paths do you need to design? Interaction How do you create an environment in which students engage as members of a learning community? Communal Work

Editor's Notes

  • #5 When we created GOA, we wanted to retain certain things that are essential aspects of our schools. RELATIONSHIPS Excellent teaching - teachers creating the curriculum What’s different about GOA?
  • #7 When we created GOA, we wanted to retain certain things that are essential aspects of our schools. RELATIONSHIPS Excellent teaching - teachers creating the curriculum What’s different about GOA?
  • #8 When we created GOA, we wanted to retain certain things that are essential aspects of our schools. RELATIONSHIPS Excellent teaching - teachers creating the curriculum What’s different about GOA?
  • #9 Teachers set the pace.
  • #10 The experience we want students to have is based on these four components. This is the output. Later, I’ll discuss how we work with teachers to design this experience, which is the input.
  • #13 When we created GOA, we wanted to retain certain things that are essential aspects of our schools. RELATIONSHIPS Excellent teaching - teachers creating the curriculum What’s different about GOA?
  • #14 286 students enrolled
  • #15 286 students enrolled
  • #16 1st metric: 41% of respondents 2nd metric: 45% of respondents 3rd metric: 24% of respondents
  • #18 What I like about this quotation is that it highlights how quickly everything is changing. Kids need new skills – technical, study skills, thinking skills. Learn how to learn autonomously. How to use vast resources available to them. Analyze critically. Communicate effectively. Written 2005
  • #19 Does anyone know when this was written? What I like about this quotation is that it highlights how quickly everything is changing. Kids need new skills – technical, study skills, thinking skills. Learn how to learn autonomously. How to use vast resources available to them. Analyze critically. Communicate effectively. Written 2005
  • #20 What I like about this quotation is that it highlights how quickly everything is changing. Kids need new skills – technical, study skills, thinking skills. Learn how to learn autonomously. How to use vast resources available to them. Analyze critically. Communicate effectively. Written 2005
  • #21 286 students enrolled