General
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Topic outline
Day 1
Day 1 consist of learning a new educational tool and closely monitoring how you progress through the creation of a learning activity.
Post your responses to the reflective questions below to share with our group. No responses to your peers are required, but If desired, use the following "Optional chat for Activity 1" to reach out to someone who may have had a similar experience or challenge to your own and you would like to ask some questions or offer suggestions.
- Pre-Reflective Questions
- What do I hope to achieve?
- What do I know that might help me achieve this?
- How will I know if I’m not achieving this?
- What am I feeling?
- How might these feelings influence my practice?
- Post-reflective Questions
- What did I learn?
- How, specifically, did I learn it?
- Why does this learning matter, why is it important?
- Were there other ways I could have reacted/thought/felt?
Day 2
Day 2 introduces some common cognitive biases that may impact how you progressed through Activity 1. We will also meet synchronously today.
Activity 2 asks you to reflect on your experience in Activity 1 and connect biases to that experience. For example, if you wrote that you felt a anxious that the activity you have created might not be well received by your students, you might have outcome bias. Outcome bias may exist because a class held in Collaborate Ultra had constant disruptions because of connection issues and the only option was to cut the class short. In reality however, many instructors experienced problems in synchronous classes because online courses went up 1800% in the first months of the pandemic and servers could not handle the traffic. It was not in the lack of preparation, it was something beyond our control. Feel confident with educational technology to continue your journey towards digital fluency.
Choose a bias that you feel may be hamper your ability to become digitally fluent and at least one that you feel may assist you in your journey. Include:
- what the bias is,
- your experience that connects with the bias, and
- how you might you overcome this bias.
Record these in the Activity 2 Journal by adding a new topic, "cognitive bias(es) that help/hinder my journey to digital fluency"
Zoom Meeting Details.
[ZOOM LINK]
Meeting ID:
Passcode:Agenda:
- Welcome and land acknowledgement, housekeeping, and overview
- Guest speaker, Dr. Carl Peters, speaking on his path towards digital fluency
- Group collaboration. Topic: Your relationship with today's technology in the classroom, the demands placed on us to keep up, and tips and tricks to keep up.
- Review the course content and Q & A
See you there!
Day 3
Day 3 looks at ways to reduce the cognitive bias that you connected in Activities 1 and 2, which can help achieve better digital literacy.
Day 4
Day 4 is all about learning a method to assessing the merit of a potential educational tool so you can feel more confident going into an activity. Connecting the best tool for an activity is a sure sign that you are getting more digitally literate.- Activity 4 (For a badge!): Assess a tool for best fit and share your results in a blog or vlog ForumNow that we have checked our biases and are we have adjusted or at least become more aware of our mindset, you can begin to assess educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity. How can an educational tool be assessed as a good fit to help support a learning outcome? Now that we have checked for any potential biases and we have adjusted, or we have at least become more aware of our mindset, we can move on to assessing educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity.
This activity provides a technique you can use to assess educational tools for best fit.Activity 4 Instructions
- Add a new topic in this blog/vlog.
- Outline an activity you would like to do in your online, F2F, or hybrid course.
- Describe an educational tool that will help facilitate that activity.
- Use the attached “Rubric for eLearning Tool Evaluation ” rubric to help you assess the merit of this tool.
- Present your final choice here in a 200-word blog/vlog explaining your rationale. Will you use it? Why or why not? Provide a few specific criteria from the rubric that most influenced your decision.
Now that we have checked our biases and are we have adjusted or at least become more aware of our mindset, you can begin to assess educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity.
How can an educational tool be assessed as a good fit to help support a learning outcome? Now that we have checked our biases and we have adjusted, or we have at least become more aware of our mindset, we can move on to assessing educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity.
This activity provides a technique you can use to assess educational tools for best fit.Complete this activity and earn a badge for the course. Be sure to bounce your choice off a Teaching and Learning Centre member, a FLO peer, or a colleague.
*Remember that BC's FIPPA laws are only temporarily relaxed, so for safety, security, and privacy follow the guidelines of your institution.
Day 5
Day 5 concludes this FLO and ends ends it with a pre and post activity. Why just go through the motions? Use this opportunity to create an activity that you will actually use in a future class. You are asked to do Activity 1 again with a slight variation and reflect on how you have harnessed your cognitive bias(es).
Continuing to be aware and controlling them will ensure that you are on your way to digital fluency.