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Queries for Thought, Discussion, Planning, … Action [Based on Steven Gilbert’s Nanovation Interviews during past 2 years and several conference sessions/workshops.] Here is short, 3-part version of 7 queries - all 7 listed below: 1. Past Improvements Discuss something you learned about in a past conference or event that you expected to use yourself or share with colleagues “back home.” If you actually did use or share it, how well did it work? Why did your effort succeed? If you did not use or share it, what were the obstacles? Which were most surprising or difficult? 2. New Improvements Identify and discuss some Shareworthy, Low-Threshold, Shareable improvements you have already learned about from THIS conference and that you hope/expect to use within next 6 days, weeks, months. 3. Implementation and Sharing Strategies Identify and discuss Ideas, resources that will enable you to use one improvement from this conference “back home” within the next 6 days, weeks, months. Ideas, resources that will enable you to help some colleagues use one improvement from this conference “back home” within the next 6 days, weeks, months. Ideas, resources that will enable some of those colleagues to help other colleagues use one improvement from this conference “back home” within the next 6 days, weeks, months. Ideas, resources that will enable small groups to help some colleagues use and share some improvements from this conference “back home” within the next 6 days, weeks, months. 1. Orientation Anyone attending this as FIRST session of conference? Anyone having NOT attended ANY sessions in which you learned something you could and hope to use to improve T/L within next 6 months? 2. Discuss examples from previous events Something you learned about in a past conference or event that you expected to use yourself or share with colleagues “back home.” Something you DID use within 6 months... and how well it worked, how you needed to adapt it, how you shared it with colleagues.. Or Something you EXPECTED to use within 6 months but did not... what were the obstacles? Which were the most surprising? Most difficult? 3. Identify attractive new improvements Identify and discuss some Shareworthy, Low-Threshold, Shareable improvements you have already learned about from THIS conference and that you hope/expect to use within next 6 days, weeks, months. Examples
4. Discuss implementation strategies Ideas, resources that will enable you to use one improvement from this conference “back home” within the next 6 days, weeks, months. 5. Discuss strategies to encourage, enable, engage COLLEAGUES Ideas, resources that will enable small groups to help some colleagues use and share some improvements from this conference “back home” within the next 6 days, weeks, months. Ideas, resources that will enable you to help COLLEAGUES use this improvement "back home" within the next 6 days, weeks, months.Each strategy should help one person to enable and encourage 3 more colleagues try similar improvements and then, in turn, help 3 more colleagues, and so on.... Think of 3 receptive colleagues who might benefit from learning about your improvement - and who might be likely to help others - jot down their initials to help you recall later whom you intended to help. 6. Do it! Get specific! In small groups of 3 or 4: A. Select one improvement B. Agree on a description. If you agree to work on one of the improvements suggested by one of you, use this time to clarify, revise, sharpen the text - ask each other tough, helpful questions! C. Complete a NoteTaking Bookmark (paper or online) Minimum: Brief title; brief description; at least one reference (URL/link, article, ...); contact information for someone willing to answer questions or provide a little additional support D. Develop a sharing strategy Each strategy should help one person to enable and encourage 3 more colleagues try similar improvements and then, in turn, help 3 more colleagues, and so on.... i. Think of 3 receptive colleagues who might benefit from learning about your improvement - and who might be likely to help others - jot down their initials to help you recall later whom you intended to help. ii. Develop a strategy to use paper bookmarks for this purpose Some advice for editing and printing these paper bookmarks iii. If time permits (or the paper bookmark is not a good fit for your improvement) develop a different kind of strategy for the same purpose. 7. Beyond Today!
see New Yorker article week of June 3, 2011 http://tlt.gs/WhyCollegeNY201106 A CRITIC AT LARGE LIVE AND LEARN Why we have college by Louis Menand JUNE 6, 2011 More and more Americans are going to college, but how many of them are actually learning anything?
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