Week 25 notes and flipped learning

Flipped learning
  • Familiarise yourself with the requirements of Blogging, Online Participation, Length limit and Assessment Submissions by reading the FAQ’s document from the class notes
  • If you are using a blog, share your address with fellow Mindlabbers or at least select a few who are able to comment on entries DONE
  • Karen, Toni and Nick can see my blog.
  • View the “Reflective Writing” video for recommendations about how to write reflectively and effectively
  • Include relevant resources in your reflective entry. If this is a blog, either hyperlink the resources or have in-text citation together with a reference list at the end
  • Draft, finalize and share your reflective entry - Activity 1: Act on my plan. Check this aligns to Practice 1, Activity 1 assessment descriptions and rubrics
  • Interact online by either having conversations in online forums or commenting on your fellow students’ blogs

Some Helpful Information for the Assessments 
Start this week by looking at PRACTICE 1 to get an overall understanding of what this Applied Practice in Context course looks like. Familiarise yourself with the requirements of Blogging, Online Participation, Length limit and Assessment Submissions by reading this Frequently Asked Questions document(required) which provides more specific answers to commonly asked question
If you decide to put your reflection in a blog, we suggest you draft the posts in the blogging platform first making sure you publish it only when it is ready. Remember to have a title of the blog post that indicates which activity it addresses, for example, you might find it helpful to name your blog post “Week 25: Act on my Plan”.
Read the helpful information on blogging (such as the platforms to choose, privacy concerns, the copyright license, the length and structure of a good reflective blog post, how to reference in a blog in the “How Should I Blog” blog. You can choose to share your address by filling in this “Share your blog’s address” form (optional) with peers from The Mind Lab course,the bigger the audience the better, or just a few chosen peers. Even if your blog is private, you can always grant permission for others to view it later on. You can find your fellow students’ blog addresses from this sheet (optional).
Moral, Ethical and Legal Responsibilities When Blogging
If you create a professional personal blog (or choose to use one that already exists) you need to consider the moral, ethical and legal responsibilities you have to your organisation with regard to the content you will create, post and share. Most employment contracts set out your obligations around the use of social media and this should be considered when you are creating or sharing views on an open online platform(s).
Taking Actions
In the past few weeks, you have developed your Action Plan using insights gained from the Research Essay and considered the communities that you engaged with, the data collection tools and ethical issues, and how Kaupapa Māori can be integrated in the inquiry. Starting from this week, it’s time to put the plan into “informed and focused” actions (Kaser & Halbert, 2017).
Taking action means that you take the lead and consider how you adopt a leadership theory or a leadership style, then apply (take action on) a leadership theory/style which will have an impact on the implementation of the inquiry. Remember in Week 6 LEADERSHIP, we discussed the leadership theories and styles, if you need to refresh your mind on the topic, revisit the class notes.
Taking action means that you bring changes to practice and also to the communities who are involved. This is not at all easy, therefore, it is important to have the right mindset for taking action. Kaser and Halbert (2017) suggest that you and others involved understand that successes or failures are both an opportunity for deeper learning and there should be spaces for reflection to learn from what you are doing. Therefore, in this Applied Practice in Context course, while you are implementing the Inquiry, each week, you will be asked to write a reflective entry.
THIS WEEK’S ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY
Activity 1: Create a reflective entry in which you reflect on what you have done so far to take action.
To help you structure your thoughts, view this required Reflective Writing video (SkillsTeamHullUni, 2014) which has recommendations about how to write reflectively and effectively. Remember when you write your reflective entry, move beyond description of what was happening, be critically reflective and show what learning you have gained through the reflections.
Here is our suggestion on how to draft, finalise and share your first reflective entry:
Step 1: Briefly describe what you have done so far to take action
In this step, you should refer to your Action Plan and briefly describe what items in the plan you have done up to this point. For example, if you plan to seek consent and parent involvement in the inquiry, have you sent out the consent form?Or, if you plan to collect student baseline via survey, have you been able to send out the survey?
Write in your reflective entry what you have done, who you have engaged with and when you did that.
Step 2: Reflect on the actions
It can be exciting when you bring changes to your practice and you may expect others to wholeheartedly embrace them, however, acting on the new strategies might be not as easy. Things might not happen as you expect or the reaction of the people who are involved is not what you want.
In this step, use the following questions to guide your thoughts
  • How do you feel about the actions you have taken?
  • What works as expectation and what doesn’t? And why?
  • What should be done differently? How would you justify this?
Write down the answers to your reflective entry
Step 3: Examine your reflection in relation to other phases of the Spiral of Inquiry and within wider frameworks/theories
SkillsTeamHullUni (2014) in the Reflective Writing video (1:03-1:14) suggest that when you reflect on the action(s), “don’t concentrate on the actions in isolation, you need to take a metaphorical step backwards to see them in the context of other events and other learning”.
It is, therefore, necessary for you to look at what you have done in the context of other phases in your inquiry and wider frameworks/theories. For example, how has the Learn phase, in which you consider the ethical issues of your inquiry, helped you to mitigate the possible intrusion of the inquiry in student learning. Or, for Develop a Hunch phase (examine the resources), does the literature provide you with ideas about how to act? What does it say? How do they play out in practice? What needs to be changed? Or what leadership style/theory have you employed when you take action(s)? In what ways did it help you to take action?
In this step, it important to support your reflection with relevant resources, for example, references of literature around your inquiry topic or references of leadership theories.
Now add notes to your reflective entry.
If your reflective journal is in the form of a blog, either hyperlink the resources or have in-text citation together with a reference list at the end.
If you want to share your blog, remember to share the link once the posts are published. Don’t copy and paste the URL when you are editing the content.
Continue your online participation by visiting your peers’ blog and commenting on their blog posts. Please note that some blog authors turn on the “comment moderation” setting, therefore, until the author approves your comment, it may not appear on their blog. In that case, you should remind the author of the comment approval. You can also respond to online discussions that are relevant to this week’s topic in other platforms (G+, Facebook, Twitter, etc).
Checking You’ve Done All That Was Required for This Week
The Tasks-list on the next tab helps you to check you have done all the required activities.
References
Kaser, L. & J. Halbert. (2017). The Spiral Playbook: Leading with an inquiring mindsetin school systems and schools. C21 Canada. Retrieved fromhttp://c21canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Spiral-Playbook.pdf

SkillsTeamHullUni. (2014, March 3). Reflective writing.[video file]. Retrieved from https://www.yo utube.com/watch?v=QoI67VeE3ds

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