Convening Four Pre-work
~ Authentic Learning ~
What's Convening Four's Topic?
In Convening 4, we will focus on the Authentic Learning component of the Ohio Personalized Learning Framework to consider the belief that personalized learning requires educators to co-design and facilitate authentic learning pathways, experiences, and assessments, aligned to equitable supports around learners’ needs, interests, aspirations, and cultural backgrounds to foster meaningful connections to their learning.
Below you will see the indicators from the Authentic Learning Component::
3.1 Personal learning pathways and experiences are learner driven.
3.2 Learners engage in relevant experiences that build skills such as innovation, problem-solving and design-thinking.
3.3 Learners are provide with opportunities to demonstrate career-ready competencies in real-world settings by solving challenges that are relevent to their local community.
3.4 Learners are immersed in experiences that are connected to their cultural identities and community contexts.
*For reference you can find the entire OH Personalized Learning Framework HERE.
Take some time to build learning around our planned convening topic by exploring the resources below.
"Both learners and learning facilitators want learning where the ‘why’ is an integral part of the process. It’s this desire to be “real” that has now found its way into our vernacular as “authenticity”. Authentic learning can be the guide to not only make learning more real but also more maximized and optimal for all learners."
-Michael Niehoff
What is Authentic Learning?
Either WATCH or READ
Watch
Watch both of the videos below. Reflect on these questions:
In what ways do the videos connect to the indicators from the Authentic Learning component?
From the videos, what is affirming -and- what is challenging?
Authentic Learning
Ravenna High School
Solving Real-World Problems
Bringing Authentic Context to Learning
Read
Read 9 Ways to Make Student Work Authentic from Getting Smart and reflect on the questions below:
In what ways does the article connect to the indicators from the Authentic Learning component?
From the article, what is affirming -and- what is challenging?
Rigor and Relevance
Either WATCH or READ. Take a moment to brush up on your knowledge of the Rigor and Relevance Framework:
Watch
Read
Read Powerful Teaching with the Rigor and Relevance Framework from Dr. Joshua P. Starr.
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Either LISTEN to -or- READ. In Convening 4, we are going to explore authentic learning through a culturally relevant and community-based context.
"Culturally responsive teaching is about tapping the schema, or the funds of knowledge, that the student brings in; it's not just about trying to build self-esteem because his racial or linguistic identity is superficially represented in a text. As a teacher, I need to recognize, honor, and actually use students' funds of knowledge to make learning sticky. The science says learning for understanding happens when we integrate new knowledge with our existing knowledge. So, the more the teacher knows about a student's schema, the more she then can start to engage that student by making "cognitive hooks" between the learner's context, interests, cultural knowledge, and the new content in the curriculum."
- Anthony Rebora (Source)
Listen
Listen to the podcast found in the article Culturally Responsive Teaching: 4 Misconceptions
(NOTE: This option will take you beyond the 25 minutes but might be a preference over reading the article.)
Read
Read the article Culturally Responsive Teaching: 4 Misconceptions