If student-centred active learning is about involving students as participants and contributors, how do you set or reset your students' expectations for their engagement as active and collaborative learners? In this session, we will brainstorm ways of developing peer engagement in active learning.
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
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Developing expectations for peer learning
1. Developing expectations
for peer learning
Andrew Middleton
Anglia Ruskin University
Active Learning Network
21 October 2021
#ARUALN
@andrewmid
2. Today’s takeaway
11 things
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
1. Thing…
2. Thing…
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Develop Peer
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3. One minute silence
Just One Tip
How can we develop peer
engagement in active
learning?
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
4. Scene setting
Peer – a fellow student; someone with whom we associate..?
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
5. Scene setting
Engagement – paying attention; interested; making a commitment;
a pre-requisite of learning actively..?
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
6. Scene setting
Active learning – dependent on engagement; student-
centred; stimulates and challenges; problem, inquiry, or design
focused; creates knowledge; applies and evaluates theory;
social; constructive..?
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
8. Non-formal
active, authentic, socially situated and open-ended
Scene setting
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
Formal Informal
Co-operation
Collaboration
affinity, friends and associates
open ended
conversational, empathetic, trust, and listening
‘working alongside’
‘working together’
task orientated
bounded and closed
self determined
self directed
directed
negotiated
making connections
accommodates attitudes,
dispositions, interests, expertise
working to the same end
assigned responsibilities and roles
clear
ambiguous
autonomy and empowerment
tacit
codified
9. Question:
How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
First minute:
Using the Chat type:
your tip(s)…
Then, second minute:
Like
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Then, add to: https://bit.ly/3piBZrk
Notes de l'éditeur
Developing expectations for peer learning
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A7v0NPA7lMDOtGzC9O3PRXJ8F2mywZoG9TapYI_hOkg/edit?usp=sharing
If student-centred active learning is about involving students as participants and contributors, how do you set or reset your students' expectations for their engagement as active and collaborative learners? In this session, we will brainstorm ways of developing peer engagement in active learning.
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
The session will also report back on a review of the Video Summaries experiment conducted in our September ALN meeting and share guidance of how to apply it in your own practice.
Active Learning Network @ ARU, 21 October 2021, 13:00 – 14:00
Join Microsoft Teams Meeting (Links to an external site.)
The session will be open to colleagues from the UK ALN
#ARUALN#ARUALN
We will generate a Tip List we can use or we can share with academic colleagues
11 things?
At least two ideas will amount to the same thing
10 seems so final
Because there’s always another good idea!
Just to make sure!
To begin… a little quiet for thinking…
We came here today because we are curious…
We are curious we are motivated…
We have at least one idea each – don’t we?
Please write down on a notepad or somewhere just one response to our key question.
Question: How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
Write your answer as a single coherent and crafted Tip if you can. Try to make it specific and original!
***We will return to you idea later in the session
A moment of solitude and contemplation in a busy day – space we need for creative thinking
Turkle, S. (2015). Reclaiming conversation: The power of talk in a digital age. New York: Penguin Press.
Scene setting
Let’s define a few ideas
Scene setting
Let’s define a few ideas
Making curious
Exciting and making fun
Being clear
Making tasks realistic
Relevant, useful to me and others
Scene setting
Let’s define a few ideas
Active learning:
dependent on engagement – it should be clear to all that they have a role to play and the learning experience will be poorer without them
student-centred
; stimulates and challenges; problem, inquiry, or design focused; creates knowledge; applies and evaluates theory; social; constructive;…
Rhetorical question:
Peer Learning – what do mean? What do we expect? What do we communicate?
Participation
Collaboration
Contribution
Co-operation
Outer circle
Formal
Informal
Non-Formal
Scene setting
Active learning doesn't stop at the door… neither do peer relationships
Formality is not a binary in a student-centred learning environment – it is an organisational term, not experiential
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Non-formality follows the learner and their curiosity, interest, and commitment. It is active, authentic, socially situated and open-ended.
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Co-operation: friends and associates, affinity, open ended, empathetic, listening, ‘working alongside’, negotiated, self-directed, self-determined, conversational, making connections, attitudes, dispositions, interests, expertise, tacit
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Collaboration: task orientated, bounded, closed, skills, working to the same end, sharing responsibilities, team work, group work, assigned roles and responsibilities, regular, clear
Reference:
Eraut, M. (2000). Non-formal learning and tacit knowledge in professional work. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, pp. 113 - 136.
Middleton, A. (2018). Reimagining spaces for learning in higher Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Noble, M. & Ross, C. (2021). From principles to participation: 'The Statement on the Cooperative Identity’ and Higher Education Co-operatives. Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, 9
So,
How can we develop peer engagement in active learning?
Consider the idea you brought into the session. Modify it if necessary.
Type it into the Chat
Begin with an asterisk * so the answers stand out
Then, Review and like
Then add to the shared Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A7v0NPA7lMDOtGzC9O3PRXJ8F2mywZoG9TapYI_hOkg/edit?usp=sharing
By the way I have 11! Just in case!
Develop peer engagement by:
Setting a clear expectation of what to do
Establishing ground rules to ensure inclusivity
Being there to encourage creativity and risk-taking while ensuring and a sense of safety
Intriguing peers and making them equally curious – consider conundrums, problems, humour
Ensuring the situation appeals to the students – it invites, it is relevant and inspires
Accommodating peers in focused and productive effort - working together is evidently a good use of time, for all
People know many hands make light work: the challenge embrace diverse knowledge, skills and/or dispositions
Being together involves a fair exchange of knowledge and effort. It feels reciprocal and mutually beneficial
Allowing for moments of excitement, fun, fluency and irony to promote self-efficacy
Modelling what is expected
Being realistic about what can be successfully achieved
Creating a empathetic space in which friendships and collaborations can grow
