DML2014 - Featured Session 3 - Connecting Learning Institutes
1Featured Session 3 - Connecting Learning Institutes: Building Learning Ecologies and Pathways
Friday, March 7th 9:00am -- 10:30am ET
Organizer/Discussant: Elizabeth Babcock
Participants: Elyse Eidman Aadahl, Ingrid Dahl, Rik Panganiban, Cathy Cormier, Morgan Anderson, Jennifer Nichols, Robin Mencher, Emilie Robert Wong, Amelia Marsh
The focus of this session will be on real life experiences designing and operating learning labs, creating and sustaining learning networks, and involving youth in the day-to-day work.
This session will dramatically highlight the true stories of Learning Lab and Learning Network collaborators, including their youth partners, focusing on authentic challenges getting their networks activated with youth leadership. The presentation structure will mimic the "This American Life" radio show format, including a short, compelling open by the "narrator," followed by three "acts" presented by representatives of different Learning Labs and the learning networks they are creating (which are, in some cases, HIVES). Each act will detail the role of youth in planning, decision-making, implementation, and reflection of learning lab design and learning network programming, and what it is like to build a connected learning community. The stories will be intimate, frank, and engaging, with relevant media.
The session will conclude with an opportunity for the audience to share and reflect on their own challenges with creating connected learning experiences for their young people and reflect on them together.