Category: Education
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Template for Student Notes
I’ve written a lot about documenting as a facilitator in self-directed learning spaces. Every update of the ALC Network website or Starter Kit, I rework the section on documentation based on what I see day-to-day. There are always more questions for facilitators to consider: How much documentation should be from you versus from the young…
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On Change, pt. 3
Surprise! Change comes! Expect it! This includes expecting forgetfulness and inertia from self and others. We have limitations and tendencies as humans, and networks of humans. Without support, we can lose perspective, our anchoring in ourselves, or our agility. Acknowledging this, we can then create systems to help us meet the changing world well. Whether…
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On Change, pt 2
Sometimes, teams fail to account for change happening to them even when they have, as Agile Learning Centers do, explicit expectations and systems for responding supportively to changes in their students’ goals, clients’ visions, or the enveloping environment. In theory and practice, the team members embrace change, design for it, and may even be loud…
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On Change, pt 1
ALC Network Starter Kit addendum There’s a section in the ALC Network Starter Kit called “Season Change and Maintenance,” which was added even though the guide was for teams just getting started for two main reasons. First, those of us working on the document realized that setting expectations and prompting folks to think long-term from…
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E-Book Audio: Section 8 + Reflections Transcript
I went a little off-script recording. So here’s a transcript! All recordings are now up at https://soundcloud.com/sde_dispatches/sets/self-directed-education-and-the-agile-learning-approach-an-introduction Hey, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast exploring facilitation that for the past seven episodes has been exploring chapters of an e-book that I put together on some of the, like, context and history and ideas that are…
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