Intentionality. With thought. Deliberate. Designed. Purposeful. Intentionality is on my mind a lot because I think that assessment can be more interesting, engaging, and powerful (for learners and teachers) when it’s less about measurement and accountability and more about supporting authentic learning practices. In this vein, assessment can be an interesting catalyst for reminding us [...]
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Being Intentional About Being Intentional
Posted in Assessment, Experience, Kids, Learning, Life, Problem Solving, Teaching, Yoga, tagged Assessment, experience, kids, Learning, Life, problemsolving, Teaching, Yoga on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Planning Your Learning Visit
Posted in Assessment, Community, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Visits, Problem Solving, Professional Development, Work, tagged Assessment, Community, experience, highereducation, Learning, problemsolving, professionaldevelopment, Work on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently wrote about the great benefits I am getting from learning visits — as visitor and visitee (is that a word? Well, you know what I mean). A few colleagues who read that piece have since had some questions for me, mostly about logistics. So I thought I would jot down some tips for [...]
Meeting The Challenge With Learning Visits
Posted in Assessment, Assessment Leadership Academy, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Visits, Problem Solving, Professional Development, tagged Assessment, experience, highereducation, Learning, problemsolving, professionaldevelopment on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The good folks over at the University of Venus began a networking challenge this fall. I never got around to actually signing up for it, but I thought it was a great idea and I intended to participate. Their challenge consisted of doing one of the following: Go interdisciplinary Go international Go outside your institution [...]
Yah, What They Said!
Posted in Assessment Leadership Academy, Change, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Work, tagged Change, deanstuff, highereducation, problemsolving, Work on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few of my favorite selections from chapters in Field Guide to Academic Leadership (edited by Robert Diamond), one of our books for the Assessment Leadership Academy: “The most appropriate solutions to the problems lie in shared commitment to and responsibility for good practice.” ~Michael Theall, Evaluation and Assessment – An Institutional Context “The opportunity [...]
Credit for Experience or Learning? Learning, Please!
Posted in Accreditation, Adult Learners, Assessment, Experience, Higher Education, PLA, Problem Solving, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, experience, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, problemsolving, reflection, Writing on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have written already about Walmart’s PLA program, so I am not going to get my knickers in a twist again about *that* topic. My first 2 cents Here My next 2 cents Here The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning announced that Pam Tate, the President of CAEL, was interviewed on NPR´s show Here [...]
Bumps!
Posted in Change, Experience, Friends, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Reflection, Toddlers, Work, tagged Change, experience, friends, highereducation, problemsolving, reflection, Toddlers, Work on July 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, PrattleNog features a guest post from Lorrie Ranck. Lorrie and I have been colleagues and friends since 1996, when we both started teaching at a college in the Bay Area that provided each of us several “bumps” in our professional road. Those bumps were likely responsible, in part, for the formation of our close [...]
“P” Is For Problem (Solving)
Posted in Blogs, Learning, Problem Solving, tagged blog, Learning, perspective, problemsolving on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Indexed has posted a good one again: How ’bout this for a problem-solving process? Step back. Get some perspective. Let it “marinate” in your head for a little while. Maybe a big while. Then tackle it again! Does this work for you, or do you have another suggestion for solving the seemingly impossible problems? (Yippee! [...]
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
Put It In Reverse
Posted in Change, Life, tagged Learning, Life, problemsolving, reflection on April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I think that when we have set-in-stone ideas (preconceptions, misconceptions, assumptions, or worries), we need help challenging or reframing them, or even, if warranted, reversing them. This video does a great job of demonstrating this principle. Reframe. Reverse. Re-see! Suddenly a pessimistic future becomes hopeful. Where else might this idea apply in your life?
Installment #9: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Change, Higher Education, Learning, Life, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Change, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Life, problemsolving, reflection, Toddlers on March 16, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In this day and age, learning requires becoming and being comfortable with ambiguity and finding our way through a tunnel in which the end may not be in sight (or, in fact, in which there may not be an end). In his book Learning as a Way of Being, Peter Vaill calls these conditions of [...]
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