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[edit] Notes from the "Imaginative Trainers Workshop" - November 10, 2008
Chapter Members may "discuss" this topic at: http://astdps.org/~astdpsor/content/2nd-annual-imaginative-trainers-workshop
Mike Katagiri presented two group creativity methods he learned from the Institute of Cultural Affairs: 1) Focused Conversation and 2) Consensus workshop. He then facilitated the participants in a short demonstration of how the methods can help groups quickly create strategies and tactics to answer questions such as: "What can we do to make our training courses more effective?" Here is what the group created in about one hour:
• LEARNING FROM SELF ○ Self discovery ○ Self reflection ○ Risk taking ○ Reflection ○ Formative evaluation (evaluating after every phase)
• LEARNING FROM OTHERS ○ Collaboration ○ Directed small group discussion ○ "Improv-able" (using improvisation)
• LEARNER'S EXPERIENCE ○ Building connections with stories ○ Learner's stories ○ Bad example (example of what not to do)
• PLENTIFUL RESOURCES ○ (i.e. Many people brainstorming)
• SHIFT PERSPECTIVE ○ Experimentation ○ Speed brainstorming ○ Role play ○ Simulation ○ "Brain dance"
• IMPRINTING ○ Repetition ○ Keep it simple
• LEARNER'S DISPOSITIONS ○ Curiosity ○ Stay present, engaged, curious
• VISUALS ○ Write big ○ Being graphic
• LEARNING STYLES ○ Visual ○ Audio ○ Kinesthetic
• (LEARNER-CENTRICITY) ○ Needs based front end analysis ○ Remember what its like not to know
• (ENGAGING) ACTIONS ○ Engaging / Fast paced ○ Involve movement ○ Doing
• (BUILD MODELS) ○ Thiagi's "Framing Model" ○ Build an idea out of Legos
[edit] Notes from the October 2, 2008 Vibrant Learning Communities Barcamp Session:
About 15 interested people participated § Mike shared his blended Learning vision & strategy (that includes Learning 2.0 elements) for his Real Estate & Facilities Group at Microsoft § The group decided to form a SIG to continue the dialogue § This SIG isn't just about "technology" but will dialogue around the opportunities and challenges for designing, developing, implementing and sustaining a Learning Community.
Follow-on Actions from the initial bar-camp session: § Form a new SIG on this topic: □ The attendees (about 12-15 people) decided to continue "collaborating" on the opportunities and challenges of Building Vibrant Learning Communities "Learning 2.0" § Mike Katagiri will publish these notes on the ASTDPS wiki (we'll walk our talk) and members will learn to/continue to use the site to collaborate using the chapter's web 2.0 tools. § MikeKat will invite interested people to the first formal startup session of the new SIG □ Agenda will include creating our SIG "startup" plan to include: ® Establishing our initial Mission, Vision, Strategies, Objectives, ...
Our ideas about what we would like the SIG to accomplish and do § Socrates café (i.e. book club idea) § Discuss specific online tools (there is already an ASTDPS "Techology SIG") § Hi tech mentoring (SME resources on i.e. Facebook) § What are all of the ways of "Learning 2.0" § Strategies for leading this type of Change § Guest speakers § Share our models of Collaborative learning beyond the classroom (i.e. Mike Katagiri's model)
What are some business drivers for a Learning Community? § Suggestion given: Relate to Productivity increase; Relate to Shareholder value § Consistent repeatable knowledge, training… (hundreds of decentralized groups) § Help Library staff to not "recreate the wheel" § Front line are asking for classroom follow-on "what are we going to do with what we learned in the training" § "Impending doom of baby boomer retirement?" § Acquisitions add to the challenge of connnecting existing sales processes with new products from the acquisitions
Questions you wish to discuss? What are we doing to: § Convince sponsors that web 2.0 is appropriate § Integrate web 2.0 with formal learning beyond ILT+eLearning § Get the community excited about adopting the tools? § Address "If we build it they will come" -- NOT! § ** Some older gens were in a period of "no training" it was mentoring, and OJT based ; 1:1 training sometimes perpetuated bad methods of the mentor. § ** My Baby boomer manager connected with me (Gen x/y) thru Facebook. This validated the medium as a credible. § Overcome the "Knowledge is Power" - Challenge to the principle of sharing § Deal with confidential business matters § Merge with formal training § "Localize" "globalize" content § Keep our community behavior "appropriate"? § Determine demographic analysis? § Audience questions: □ Satisfy Gen Y'rs : social networking? … ® Not dis-satsify them with older ILT traditional training □ Bring "baby boomers" into using the new technologies § Move sharing from email 1:1 □ Too many emails making disfunction □ Email storage problem/cost § Enhance New employee orientation § Implement Community authoring § Overcome too many Wikis § Build internal authoring § Collect knowledge and distill it for training § Audience analysis § Address "not enough time to read" § Focus on the specific knowledge that we want to capture § Seed our platforms with content § Distill content collected? § Help our community be more self directed § Get our sponsors to support this (without controlling it?) □ Suggestion from participant: talk in the language of bus sponsors □ Suggestion from participant: need to get some successes § Initiate and lead Learning Community analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation (ADDIE)? § Address the challenges that you anticipate (or are currently experiencing)
Possible follow-on actions: § SIG on Collaborative Learning - The group decided to do this Mike Katagiri will initiate a formal invite on the website
[edit] Please go to the following page to view the details of the upcoming Chartering meeting
http://astdps.org/~astdpsor/content/new-sig-collaborative-learning-communities
