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Class 5 experiential learning and reflective practice for july 7, 2015 class
1. The Nature of Experiential
Learning
Often dysfunctional, always incomplete
Need to use present experience to test our
beliefs, correcting the misinterpretations we’ve
made
We often manipulate experience to fit our beliefs
We usually see and hear selectively
2. Stop and Think
Can you recall a personally
significant learning experience?
In formal education or in the school of life?
What was it? What were the
circumstances surrounding the experience?
Why was it significant to you?
3. What Makes Learning Significant?
(experience attended to
and reflected on)
(experience not
attended to)
Learning Non-Learning
Experience
Non-Significant Significant
(can involve expansion but is
not subjectively valued)
• Subjectively valued
AND
• Has personal impact
involving expansion or
transformation
4. Informal and Incidental Learning
from Experience
Informal Learning: Can be planned or unplanned,
but usually conscious awareness that learning is
taking place
Incidental Learning: A by-product of some other
activity; usually unintentional, unexamined, and
embedded in closely held belief systems
Marsick and Watkins’ definitions, 1990, 1992
6. Incidental Learning
When incidental learning occurs, people often
act with little or no reflection, and the learning is
thus embedded in their action
To bring awareness of learning to surface
requires making tacit assumptions explicit;
Langer calls this concept “mindfulness”
7. What proportion of our learning
do you think is informal and
incidental as compared to
formal learning?
What are the implications of this
for the learners you teach?
8. What do we mean by “reflective
practice?”
Stephen Brookfield’s
concept of critical
reflection
David Boud’s ideas
about reflective
learning through
writing
Donald Schön’s
concepts
• Knowing-in-action
• Reflection-on-action
• Reflection-in-action
9. What strategies do you use to
engage learners in reflective
practice?
Journal writing
End-of-course reflective essays
Blogs as reflective learning journals
Digital storytelling
10. Practices to Enhance Student Blogging
Explain the
“WHY” for
engaging in
reflective
practice
Explain the “HOW” of
reflective practice with
a blog
Create some structure:
Model the
process with
your own blog!
12. Steps in the Digital Storytelling
Process
First, write the story –
aim for 300 words
Share the story orally in
a story circle with peers
Continue to refine and
reduce the story to its
key elements; peer
feedback helps
Create a storyboard
Remember, it’s an
iterative process
13. Search free digital media sites for
photos licensed under the Creative
Commons for remixing and
Attribution/ Share Alike
Choose music to create tone and
set the emotion of the story
Use an editor such as iMovie or
WeVideo to arrange photos, music,
transitions, and narration to create
the desired effect
Save your work as a file that can be
uploaded to YouTube
Steps in the Digital Storytelling
Process
14. What is the Creative Commons?
A San Francisco non-
profit organization
founded in 2002 that
has developed
several copyright
licenses that are free
to the public,
designed to expand
the range of creative
works for others to
build upon
15. In Conclusion, Reflective Practice …
Engages students in deeper-level learning
from experience
Can challenge taken-for-granted
assumptions
Generates social learning when carried out in
a supportive community of student bloggers
Can be creative and emotionally expressive
when learners are engaged in digital storytelling
16. References for this presentation
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Brookfield, S. D. (1997, Fall). Accessing critical thinking. New Directions for Adult and Continuing
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Carter, T. J. (2010, in press). Blogging as reflective practice in the graduate classroom. In K. King & T. Cox
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