Create-to-Learn Pedagogies for Every Learner

NOVEMBER 25, 2020 | 3:00-4:00pm (Athens GMT+2)

When students create, they learn. Every educator can integrate learner-centered inquiry into existing curriculum using create-to-learn pedagogies that parallel the practices that are used by knowledge professionals in all fields to investigate, model and explain the world.

Learn how to incorporate hands-on, minds-on learning experiences across the K-12 curriculum and be inspired by examples from across the subject areas. Blogging, video production, podcasting, meme-making, and other digital learning practices build practical skills and prepare learners for a lifetime of learning.

But these pedagogies have implications for classroom management, assessment of student learning, and more. Reflect on how you can bring create-to-learn learning pedagogies back to your classroom by helping students create media that documents their learning journeys.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand why create-to-learn competencies can flourish in both F2F and online learning contexts;
• Appreciate how educators scaffold learning experience that involve create-to-learn pedagogies;
• Reflect on how intellectual curiosity is activated when students create media to represent their learning;
• Experiment with digital tools for creating media as a way to represent learning;
• Consider practical ways to apply create-to-learn pedagogies into classroom practice across all grade levels and subject areas.

Essential Question

Why do create-to-learn pedagogies promote deeper learning?

Best Practices in Digital Learning, Anytime & Real Time

The coronavirus crisis has created an opportunity to deepen digital literacy and learning competencies for teachers and students alike. In this session, we'll model and reflect upon five best practices of digital learning that go far beyond the Zoom or Google Classroom.

Learn more about how trust and respect develop in online communities and discover the power of create-to-learn pedagogies that deepen engagement and accelerate learning. Learn strategies that help you to incorporate "anytime" and "real time" learning for students, teachers, and staff.

Even when the coronavirus crisis is over, the best practices of digital learning are relevant to what happens in the classroom as we cultivate habits of mind that advance lifelong learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand practices that build trust and respect in online communities
2. Appreciate the affordances of “real time” and “anytime” learning
3. Gain knowledge about the relationship between digital literacy and online learning
4. Learn how educators scaffold create-to-learn pedagogies in a fully-online context
5. Experiment with digital tools for creating media as a way to represent learning
6. Consider practical ways to help students and teachers develop digital learning competencies.

Essential Question

How can digital learning be implemented in ways that deepen engagement and accelerate learning?

On Friday, October 23, Professor Hobbs will repeat her workshop, "Best Practices in Digital Learning, Anytime & Real Time".