Extended activity 1a - Overview / Objectives of the Module

Overview

  • Why else do we teach but for learning? Yet, there is often a disconnect between conventional, accepted teaching practices and research evidence about what enables learning. In this module, we will explore how we learn and what we can do to ensure learning environments are effective, accessible, intersectional, and equitable.


Focus is on designing significant learning experiences that 

  • are grounded in and informed by research principles that
  • foster student learning in specific contexts.

  • Effective: producing a desired effect.
  • Accessibile: ensuring that a learning design is available for use by all intended audiences.
  • Intersectional: interconnects social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.  
    • defined: people are often disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression: their race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and other identity marker
      • for example 
        • identity markers (e.g. “woman” and “black”) do not exist independent of each other
        • each informs the others, often creating a complex convergence of oppression.
        • intersectionality is considered crucial to social equity work - Crenshaw (1989)
          • recognize differences in others
          • avoid oversimplifying language
          • know the space you occupy (your cultural vantage point)
          • seek the points of view of others

  • Equitable: Just and fair inclusion.ensure that all can reach their full potential. 
    • Equity is less concerned with the optics of making things look “equal”, 
    • instead it aims to address structural imbalances that keep all from fair experiences.

Desired Outcome

  • Design effective learning activities and experiences that are grounded in research-based principles of learning that promote students using their knowledge in meaningful ways.



Objectives

  • Reflect on your core beliefs about teaching and learning and the ways they impact teaching practices and learning outcomes.
  • Examine teaching approaches and strategies that foster student learning in specific contexts.
  • Identify considerations when designing significant learning experiences grounded in and informed by research-based principles.

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