Videos to inspire course designs

Writing together

We’ll use a Currents Community (part of Chico State’s Google Suite of apps) to share writing.

Instructions for joining Currents on the Getting Started page.

Reading together

Perusall logoWe’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together. Link here to Perusall.

Instructions for joining Perusall on the Getting Started page.

Session 1: Spring 2021 (Feb 10)

Session 1: Spring 2021 (Feb 10)

photo of a child's writing: WSPNWelcome!

Our goal today is to think about the connection between our course designs and our disciplines: identities, the way we work, the materials of our work, the outcomes or production of our work. How well has this translated fully online?

A plan:

  • Quick introductions
  • Our shared goals. Overview of our FLC.
  • Some writing, some talking, some sharing out of ideas.
  • Prep for next session.

Writing into the day:

What does learning look like in your discipline? What do you do or make? What counts as data? What counts as knowledge? What are the challenges for newcomers to your discipline?

Break out groups. Take turns sharing answers to a few of these questions:

  • Describe your field (briefly): What does learning look like in your discipline? What do you do or make? What counts as data? What counts as knowledge? What are the challenges for newcomers to your discipline? (Link to Mike Wesch’s Anthro101 course: what would be your discipline’s Lessons & Challenges?)
  • Supporting newcomers to your field: How do the structures of our classes support nascent historians, psychologists, chemists, rhetors, etc? Which parts of our courses look like school and which parts would be recognizable to someone in our field? Are students participating in activities or practices of the field? Can we continue to shift the balance in our courses away from “school stuff” to “the work of our discipline stuff”?
  • Comparing across disciplines: what do you have in common and what differences do we see in your fields? What would be exciting to you as a learner from an outside perspective? What would be challenging as a learner from an outside perspective?

We’ll share out all together too.

Kim will also explain our coaching sessions.

For next time (Feb 24):

Watch and comment on Hecht talk in Perusall: Consider: what are the indicators in your course/system that tell you how your class is going? How are the current structures of your class enabling participation in the discipline? 

Read before or together? “Inclusive Design and Design Justice: Strategies to Shape Our Classes and Communities” by Amy Collier

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