Change in Digital Learning Environments
Ross Gellar Said It Best – “P-I-V-O-T!” Weiner (2009) looks to “…define organizational readiness for change… (p. 6). In a perfect world, this preamble is necessary to make institutional changes that are costly and time-consuming. Readiness is an essential step in change-making, but as educators are keenly aware, organizations were not given a chance to ready themselves for COVID-19. This is especially true for K-12 education, which is where I find myself amid many changes....
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But I Don’t Own A Pantsuit From my perspective, the most successful leadership experiences are dynamic, involve being able to read the situation and be the leader needed at that moment. While I have never attempted to reflect on my approach to leadership in the past, I recognize the importance of doing so as Castelli (2016) points out that “A framework for reflective leadership provides an invaluable method for changing old behaviours and outdated practices…” (p. 229). In leading a...
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The Marriage of Past and Present The scope of my design practice is inclusivity for learners. It includes learners in every capacity imaginable; from artists whose language is colour, visually impaired students, intellectual geniuses who cannot sequence order of events, adults coming back to literacy, learners with cognitive impairments, individuals whose cultural lens has not been seen in education, youth who live with trauma as a barrier to education, the list is diverse, and it is never...
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LearningWellness – The Prototype As partners in this design challenge, we (Kristin and Sandra) were able to imagine a prototype to address a problem we both see as pertinent to our current employment focus. With Kristin as a senior secondary teacher and Moodle administrator at a public distributed learning (DL) school and Sandra as the learning specialist teacher at the same site, it was a relatively smooth process to align the two needs. The design process brought to light a...
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What is Your Process? We are asked to discuss instructional design, and design processes as they relate to our own sphere. Rothwell’s (2015) definition resonates with me because I find it is precisely how I approach the work: …analyzing human performance problems systematically, identifying the root causes of those problems, considering various solutions to address the root causes, leveraging organizational and individual strengths, and implementing the interventions in ways designed to...
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