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Preparing students for the unknown
Leslie Reid
Vice-Provost Teaching & Learning
Jay Cross
Professor and Director
College of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Welcome
Webinar series by University of Calgary scholars
Information presented is a summary of the scholars’ research
Jay Cross
Director of the College of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation in the Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning, UCalgary
Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Cumming School of Medicine
Innovator in human and animal health through research and educational program development, governance, and leadership development
Leslie Reid
Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning
Teaching Professor, Faculty of Science
3M National Teaching Fellow
21st century landscape
What’s changing?
Student needs and demographics
What’s changing?
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
Deming (2017), The Quarterly Journal of Economics
What’s changing?
Will Robots Take our Children’s Jobs?
Alex WilliamsNew York Times
Dec. 11, 2017
What’s changing? Higher Ed partnerships
Mission U
UCalgary Eyes High strategy
What’s needed?
Old smart: knowing the most, making the fewest mistakes.
New smart: how you think, how you relate to others
New smart behaviors
New smart behaviors:
• Quieting ego
• Managing thinking and emotions
• Reflective listening
• Relating to others
Growth mindset beliefs
• Intelligence and talents can be developed
• Effort is the path to mastery• Mistakes are essential to
learning• Failure is an opportunity to
learn• Feedback is essential to
learning
Expert learners
Transition in focus of education
The Three Rs of the 20th Century
Writing
Reading
Reading
Arithmetic
Skills for the future:World Economic Forum
10 Mar 2016
Jenny Soffel
Website Editor, World Economic Forum
Modes of learning
Experiential learning = learning by doing + reflection
“Lectures are a way of transferring the instructor’s lecture notes to students’ notebooks without passing through the brains of either.”– Eric Mazur
Experiential learning shifts the role of the instructor
Experiential learning comes in many different forms
Modes of learning
Experiential learning = learning by doing + reflection
“Lectures are a way of transferring the instructor’s lecture notes to students’ notebooks without passing through the brains of either.”– Eric Mazur
Authentic learning a type of experiential learning that involves students exploring, discussing, and constructing concepts and
relationships in real-world contexts through projects with audiences and communications appropriate to them
Definition: Authentic learning
Four themes supporting authentic learning are:
1. An activity that involves real-world problems and that mimics the work of professionals; the activity involves presentation of findings to audiences beyond classroom.2. Use of open-ended inquiry, thinking skills and metacognition.3. Students engage in discourse and social learning in a community of learners.4. Students direct their own learning in project work.
Audrey Rule, State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego, Journal of Authentic Learning
Purpose1) Learning through authentic experiences that enable inter-disciplinary, critical and creative thinking, team-work and innovation
2) Development unit for signaturepedogogies and program design
BackgroundCollege of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation included in 2012 Academic PlanLaunched in 2016 with approval of first courses and recruitment of Director
College of Discovery, Creativity and InnovationTaylor Institute of Teaching and Learning
College of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation authentic learning
UNIV 201/203 Global Challenges coursesTheme: feeding 9 billion people
Student-initiated innovation projects (winter 2017)
• “Up There” vertical farms for northern communities
• Insects as alternative protein• Ugly Food smoothies (food waste
awareness)• Distributed Calgary Food Bank through
Calgary Co-op stores• Student Union Foodbank
The modern university has become a confederation of specialties…
fine arttheatre
economics
history
philosophy
psychology
anthropology
engineeringchemicalelectrical
mechanicalbiomedical
mathbiology
molecularcellular
computer science
physics
medicine
english
communication
commerce
neuroscience
biochemistry
law
ecology
veterinary medicine
agriculture
sociology
…with barriers between disciplines
fine arttheatre
economics
history
philosophy
psychology
anthropology
engineeringchemicalelectrical
mechanicalbiomedical
mathbiology
molecularcellular
computer science
physics
medicine
english
communication
commerce
neuroscience
biochemistry
law
ecology
veterinary medicine
agriculture
sociology
UNIV 201 Global Challenges students go public
Feeding 9 billion people dinnerMarch 14, 2017
“Failing Successfully” panelNovember 9, 2017
Authentic learning through partnership with high schools
High school students focus on the year 2050 and develop innovation projects, workshop with mentors at Banff Centre
• Pilot: Strathcona-TweedsmuirSchool (AB), Appleby College (ON), Lower Canada College (QC), Rothesay Netherwood (NB)
• October 2016 launch and summit April 9 to 14, 2017
The innovation itself is not the goal, it is the motivation for learning…
The innovation ’pitch’ is not the end but rather an inflection point for learning
Lear
nin
g
Time
ReflectionRefinement
X‘the pitch’
• Reasoning• Connectivity of issues • Real-world inquiry• Source validation• Critical reflections• Perspectives shaped
by disciplines and culture
Discover Create Innovate
• Connection with communityCommunication
• Validation • Refinement
• Ideation• Refinement• Collaboration
Authentic experience, not content, as the driver of learning
This practice is similar in the arts, science, business…
critical
design
collaborativenumerical
systems
growth mindset
world views
thinking
thinkingentrepreneurial
U Calgary Eyes High strategy: Foundational commitments
Innovation feels risky but the rewards are great
1. Student engagement 2. Re-invigoration of instructors
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