Diversity Learning Styles and Project Based Learning Upgrading

"Diversity, Learning Styles and Project Based Learning" Upgrading classroom methods for Global Personal Learning Framework™ By Richard C. Close The Chrysalis Campaign, Inc. http: //globallearningframework. ning. com Global Learning Framework©, Micro Learning Paths© are a Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close No version can be reproduced in any format without written permission from author Web Education System™ is a Trademark of BASCOM Inc.

Speaker Richard C Close CEO-Servant Chrysalis Campaign, Inc. – 25+ year Corp Learning markets – SUNY ESC Master research on Adult Learning, poverty and technology – Developer of the Global Learning Framework™ – K-12 and Poverty Methods – Author, developer, consultant Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Agenda Learning Designs and Project Based Learning Upgrading Learning Theories Nature of collaboration VARK Learning Styles Personal Learning Framework™ Global Learning Framework and Learning Design • Class –curriculum methods • Art Class Project Based Learning • STEM and humans • • • Copyright RClose Kenya 2007 Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

What’s in a Real Class? • • • Five different Learning Styles Multiple personalities Culture diversity Race diversity Religious diversity 50% Trauma from Divorce 50% STDs 27% Children Alcoholics Domestic violence Bullied http: //earth. jsc. nasa. gov Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Our Digital Divide San Jose High School graduating only 55% of the 2011 Class Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Common Core in a Uncommon World Walt Disney's Surprise Package (1944). “Might Highty Tidy” By Dick Huemer and Joe Grant In front of the jail, the Highty-Tighty put a great machine. “Now, ” he said, “begins the fun. We'll take these folk and stretch them a little here, squeeze them a little there, press a bit, flatten a bit, until their forms are just like mine!” The people shook their fists and cried out angry shouts. But it was no use. One after the other, the short, the tall, the fat, the lean, were crammed into the wide metal mouth of the dreadful machine. One after the other they tumbled out again, stretched and flattened and absolutely square! Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

The Ed Theories Battle VS. Social Darwinism laissez-faire capitalism; John Dewey Global Collaboration Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

The Revolution of Digital Democracy empowers the individual to have a voice http: //www. youthforhumanrights. org/what-are-human-rights/videos/right-to-democracy. html Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Hurdles with Traditional Learning Theories and Methods Dated – Pre Web 2. 0 collaborative Research flaws (Academic base) Does not consider poverty issues well Does not handle societal trauma Is top down not collaborative Not integrate with collaborative systems ( Worksheet plague) • Needs to empower student w/ methods • Still very social Darwinism in style “Survival of the fittest” • • • Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Critique of Experiential Learning Kolb • Kolb and Fry (1975) argue that the learning cycle can begin at any one of the four points – and that it should really be approached as a continuous spiral. Flaw • • • Consciousness is relational and not sequential Definitions are vague Does not map Neurologically like Meyes Briggs Researched on academic wealth and not working class or poverty. Does not connect with collaborative world http: //infed. org/mobi/david-a-kolb-on-experiential-learning/ Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Education Needs an Upgrade • • Methods to handle diversity Curriculum to handle global knowledge Methods to teach collaboration Ways to build a broken spirit Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Change This is not about the student’s digital literacy. This is about academic digital literacy. Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Industrial “One-to-Many” Model Industrial Authoritarian Instruction One Way Model M D A M E E D I I A M E D I I A Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. A

We are still living in a colonial Lie… Even though… • there is no island • no one is lost • digital democracy is here • we have proof it is an academic myth – Woodstock – Lost boys of Sudan – Faceb. Book Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Public Media and Curriculum Have Already Merged http: //www. youthforhumanrights. org/what-are-human-rights/videos/no-slavery. html Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

The First Big Question… How is an individual Integrated with Global Knowledge? Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Framework™ The Creative Loop How we perceive, process and produce Collaborative Input Perceptual Filters Personal Processing Create w/ Competencies Collaborative Output Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Framework ™ The Creative Loop How we perceive, process and produce Collaborative Input Perceptual Filters Personal Processing Create w/ Competencies Collaborative Output Visual Study Strategies (V) Aural Study Strategies (A) Read/write Study Strategies (R) Kinesthetic Study Strategies (K) Multimodal Study Strategies (MM) Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

What is our approach to Learning Styles? Adopt to the student’s Learning Styles Empower the student w/ Learning Styles Just go with the curriculum Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

How can different learning styles learn together? Copyright Warner Brothers Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Framework ™ The Creative Loop How we perceive, process and produce Collaborative Input Perceptual Skills Personal Processing Create w/ Competencies Collaborative Output Sensing (S): Focus on tangible data, what is known (past and now), practical means. Intuiting (N): Focus on concepts, patterns, potential (future or atemporal), what-if. Thinking (T): Decide / organize based on objective criteria, impersonal principles. Feeling (F): Decide / organize based on harmony with personal and group values. Source: EEGand. Social. Cognition. pdf Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

How Values Impact Learning Little Albert experiment - John B Watson http: //en. wikipedia. org/w iki/Little_Albert_experim ent “Learned rules” that define if content is: • Positive or Negative • Trust or distrust • Good or Bad • Embrace or reject • Curious or cautious • Accept or Defend • Adopt or reject • Must have or avoid • Three Gunas (Satva, Rajas Tamas) • Yin or Yang (dark and light) Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

The Intensity of Poverty and Trauma on Educational Methods http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=7 d 4 gmdl 3 z. NQ&fea ture=share&list=FLYqjsx. DQdxthh 4 Osr. Edq. SUA Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Framework ™ The Creative Loop How we perceive, process and produce Collaborative Input Perceptual Filters • • • Personal Processing Create w/ Competencies Collaborative Output Communication Competencies Creative Competencies Workforce Skills Life Skills Literacy Competencies Cultural Competencies Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Framework™ The Creative Loop How we perceive, process and produce Collaborative Input Perceptual Filters Personal Processing Create w/ Competencies Collaborative Output Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

How does the individual fit in with the Global Web & Curriculum? Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

The First Big Question… How does the global learner; Perceive, Process and Create? Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Frameworks ™ Life: Perceive, Process and Create Life Skills Learning Styles PERCIEVE CREATE Physical Non-Physical PROCESS Observation & Analysis Values & Reaction Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Frameworks ™ Personal Experience: Perceive, Process and Create Learning Styles Life Skills Physical Non-Physical Observation & Analysis Values & Reaction Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Frameworks ™ Academic View: Perceive, Process and Create Challenge Resources Competence Expression Physical Non-Physical Observation & Analysis Values & Reaction Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Personal Learning Frameworks ™ How do we process? Observation Sorting Filter • • Intention Focus Noise Decipher Explore Ignore Filter Context of Logical Relationships • • Classification Questioning Investigating Analyzing Hypothesizing Designing Interpreting Synthesizing Values of Emotional Relationships • Value system • Personal History • Global Culture Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Response to the outside world • Create • Fix • Fight • Flight • Observe • Ignore • Reflect

Meyers & Briggs Overlay of PLF™ Extravert (E) Personality or Character Introvert (I) Observation Sorting Filter • Intention • Focus INFORMATION • Noise (S) • Sensing Decipher • Intuition Explore(N) • Ignore • Filter Rules of Logical Relationships • • Classification Questioning DESCISION Investigating Thinking ((T) Analyzing Hypothesizing Designing Interpreting Synthesizing Values of Emotional Relationships • Value system DESCISION • Personal Feeling ((F) History • Global Culture Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Response to the outside world • Create • Fix STRUCTURE • Fight Judging (J) • Perceiving Flight (P) • Observe • Ignore • Reflect

UNESCO Four Pillars overlay of PLF™ o t n Le ar w o Kn nt r a Le Observation Sorting Filter • • Intention Focus Noise Decipher Explore Ignore Filter Context of Logical Relationships Learn to Know Values of Emotional Relationships o do Response to the outside world Learn to be Learn to Live Together Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

The Clash of the Curriculums Science vs. Humanities Observation Sorting Filter • • Intention Focus Noise Decipher Explore Ignore Filter Context of Logical Relationships • • Classification Questioning Investigating Analyzing Hypothesizing Designing Interpreting Synthesizing Values of Emotional Relationships • Value system • Personal History • Cultures • Personality Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Response to the outside world • Create • Fix • Fight • Flight • Observe • Ignore • Reflect

Knowledge without context is… dangerous Eugène Ionesco (1909– 1994) “The knife can kill” From the play “The Lesson” The Knife (or nuclear bomb) just is…. now what we do with it is another matter. Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Technology & Media Without Human Values Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Our Value System comes from the humanities Values manage/judge every piece of content and context through a mental filter. Values are … • Cultural • Go – No Go • Fight or Flight • Positive or negative • Productive or destructive • Loving or selfish • Good or bad • Motivating or de-motivating I NEED A REASON TO GO TO THE MOON Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Question… How do we learn together in a global collaborative framework? Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

What is the process of collaborative community learning? We need a Global Learning Framework ™ Problem Discover Adopt Collaborate Self Contained “Local” Course and Content… Adult Learning Prepare Traditional e. Learning Present Assess Practice Share me-and-my-bubble Performance Present Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Test

How the student learns with a global community: “Micro Learning Framework™ I will choose to own this knowledge I need to know Problem Discover Explore what else relates to this Adopt I will publish my discovery Collaborate Validate how it fits into the world Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Share

The Framework of transformation. Global Change Personal Change Problem Discover Adopt Collaborate Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Share

Our Personal Learning Framework experience moves within the Global Learning Framework (community). Problem Discover Adopt Collaborate Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Share

PROCESS CREATE PERCIEVE PROCESS Learning event CREATE PERCIEVE Collaborative Process CREATE PROCESS Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Design Lesson Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Adventure Based Learning? Copyright Disney Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

“Micro Learning Paths™” in PBL Curriculum Problem Discover Adopt Explore What is Balance in art? Relational searching art images You. Tube Cartoon Collaborate Share Agreement Posterboard sheet Group Art Project Published Galleries (for parents) Photo in Blog Social Networking (Mightybell) Group presents to class Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover What is you gifts? What is the best way to learn for you? Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Share

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover Vark website • Assess yourself? • “VARK Learning Styles. ” Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Share

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover Share • Class discussion and laughter “Do cartoons use artists? ” • “Tell me when you see balance and how the cartoonist does it” • “How do you see weight? ” Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Collaborative Class Video (not passive) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=MOiy. D 26 c. J 2 A Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover Share • Make a balanced design with shapes to represent something you love. Like the water, woods or home. “First do shapes in pencil. • “Very light so you can change it” Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover Share • Cut color paper as group and glue to your sheet. • Discuss and vote of which piece your group wants to explain to the class about balance. ” Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover • Each person share in small group descussion. • Each student publishes blog in private Ning page or in composition book. Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format. Share

Problem Art. Adopt Lesson. Collaborate Discover Share • Share with class, home and the world your art. • Each student publishes picture on a Mightybell. com square. • The team presents one to the class on the Smartboard. If time, the group presents each one of theirs. Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Transformative evidence. . “Writing to heal “ Lesson School Kitale Kenya Copyright Richard C. Close Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any. Kids format.

CREATE PERCIEVE PROCESS Questions PERCIEVE PROCESS Collaborative Questions By Richard C. Close The Chrysalis Campaign, Inc. New Milford, CT 06776 rclose@richardclose. info Twitter: iamafricastory Richardclose. blogspot. com CREATE PROCESS Micro Learning Paths, Global Learning Framework, Global Learning Process are Copyright 2011 Richard C. Close Web Education System, My Web Library are Trademark s of Bascom, Inc. www. bascom. com Space Images Copyright NASA. Africa and Brooklyn, NY photography copyright 2007 -9 Richard C. Close Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.

Questions By Richard C. Close The Chrysalis Campaign, Inc. New Milford, CT 06776 rclose@richardclose. info Twitter: iamafricastory Contest at: http: //this-is-my-story. ning. com Chrysalis Campaign. Inc. Site: http: //globallearningframework. ning. com Micro Learning Paths, Global Learning Framework, Global Learning Process are Copyright 2011 Richard C. Close Web Education System, My Web Library are Trademark s of Bascom, Inc. www. bascom. com Space Images Copyright NASA. Africa and Brooklyn, NY photography copyright 2007 -9 Richard C. Close Sponsored by Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.