Learning+Forward

= Learning Forward ~ = = Reflecting, Revising and Celebrating Together =

//What do you now know? What was easy? Challenging? Surprising? Or an unexpected delight? What are lessons learned? What advice would you give for NEXT time?//


 * Metacognition** - the practice of thinking about thinking - revealing what is known and not known YET. Metacognition can be used an effective learning path for knowing yourself; your capacity to learn; the processes successfully used or not; and concepts now understood or not. Reflective Practice yields higher quality learning and results.


 * Collaboration** - If learning really is a social process (75% of learning is informal), then collaboration accelerates what is known and understood along with the capacity to transfer to other situations. In recent years, learning has been re-conceptualized from an additive process characterized by an individual's acquisition of knowledge using socially-enabled processes.

Reflective Directions - Past - Present - Future

 * Reflecting ON Action - PAST [Summative]
 * Reflecting IN Action - PRESENT [Informative]
 * Reflecting FOR Action - FUTURE [Learning Forward / Goals]

Reflective practice with others can be useful at the **beginning** of designing the task - **during** implementation process or at the **closing** of projects to develop summative, lessons learned. Consider calling together colleagues and/or student teams when. ..

**a.** ~ inventing new tasks / processes / learning experiences **b**. ~ experiencing difficulty with the work  **c.** ~ a stopping point has been reached **d.** ~ additional minds (thinkers new to the work) could help move it forward **e.** ~ gathering what you now know to apply to NEXT or future events - learning forward



AM Topics

 * Go-Arounds
 * Power of Collaboration
 * Learning Forward
 * Fine-Tuning Protocol ~ Fishbowl Practice
 * Tuning Rounds

PM Topics

 * Tuning Rounds
 * Collaborative Tools
 * Lessons Learned

Tools Used Today
• MicroBlogging a la Today's Meet

Resources

 * Reflective Practice Tasks - BEFORE - DURING - AFTER
 * Student Achievement Through Staff Development ~ Joyce & Showers
 * Bernajean Porter's Wiki for Participatory Web 2.0 Tools
 * The Role of a Google Jockey
 * Informal Learning Studies - Marcia Connor
 * Fine Tuning Protocol ~ Reflective Practice w/ Critical Friends (adults & students)
 * Developing Blogs as Reflective Practice for Adults ~ Slideshare
 * Using Student Blogs as Reflective Practice ~ Slideshare
 * Reflective Practice ~ Ideas and Resources
 * Cooperative vs Collaborative Learning ~ Created by Teresa Rafael
 * Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning
 * Grading in Collaborative Classrooms
 * Create a Culture of Collaborative, Leading and Learning, Nov 2010 - See summary chart below of BIG IMPROVEMENTS made in ONE year through implementing reflective, collaborative cultures for professional development in North Carolina Schools.