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A New Culture of Learning Key Conversations from the 2012 National Leadership Symposium ACPA Commission on Student Involvement Inaugural e-Learning September 6, 2012 1 pm est Facilitators: Marilyn J Bugenhagen | Associate Professor of Leadership | Marian University, Wisconsin David Rosch | Assistant Professor of Leadership Education | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Moderator: Mark Anthony Torrez | Assistant Director for Community Engagement | Emory University
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This is the inaugural webcast in the Commission for Student Involvement E-Series. This webcast is about the key conversations from the 2012 National Leadership Symposium. This past year, the focus of the Symposium was on the rigorous design, engaging experiences, and demonstrated results necessary for quality leadership education in our contemporary society. Participants and presenters engaged in a shared reading which served as a collective thread across each session: A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (Thomas & Brown, 2011). Focused on creating frameworks for quality education of students in today’s digital age, the book provided a springboard from which ideas were shared in translating the material to college leadership education. Webinar participants will hear from the coordinators of this year’s Symposium: David Rosch, an Assistant Professor of Leadership Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Marilyn Bugenhagen, an Associate Professor of Leadership at Marian University, as they review some of the highlights and key concepts discussed this past summer.
Transcript of A New Culture of Learning
A New Culture of
Learning Key Conversations from the 2012 National Leadership Symposium
ACPA Commission on Student Involvement Inaugural e-Learning
September 6, 2012 1 pm est
Facilitators: Marilyn J Bugenhagen | Associate Professor of Leadership | Marian University, Wisconsin
David Rosch | Assistant Professor of Leadership Education | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Moderator: Mark Anthony Torrez | Assistant Director for Community Engagement | Emory University
Rigorous design
Engaging
experiences
Demonstrated
results
are necessary in
contemporary society
to create quality
leader(ship) learning.
Diana Rhoten, Program Director of Digital Media and Learning at
the Social Science Research Center, describes how digital media
can engage young people in informal learning contexts.
http://youtu.be/52eViqY1B7Q
New Learners of the 21st Century
A New Culture of
Learning
…our skill sets have a shorter
life.
…understanding play =
understanding learning.
…mentorship has a new
importance and meaning.
Mindsets & Dispositions
Skills
Play is critical to learning
• In Play we explore, imagine,
research, try again, test
ideas, hypothesize, engage
with others, innovate, try
again, experience, envision,
think, learn from others, try
again, listening, move, are
open, change, reconsider, try
again, learn….
• Can leader(ship) learning
(education) do this?
Mentorship in a
Connected World
• “Learning is a remarkably
social process. In truth, it
occurs not as a response
to teaching, but rather as
a result of a social
framework that fosters
learning.” ~John
Seely Brown
Social & Technical Infrastructures
Leveraging learning in both/and
Design & Engagement do it with intentionality
“Design is a plan for
arranging elements in
such a way as to best
accomplish a particular
purpose.” Charles Eames
formal • informal
structures • unstructured
presenter-led • peer-facilitated
delivered to • discovered with
right answers • right questions
speaker expertise • community wisdom
tension around roles, boundaries, responsibility for learning, power
From Space to Place for
Learning • Setting the
environment for
learning -
• Sensory Integration
Rule #9 Stimulate
more of the
senses.
• Room
arrangements
make a difference
Engagement Modalities •Autonomy - Mastery -
Purpose
•“Control leads to compliance. Autonomy leads to engagement.” Daniel Pink
• Task - what they do
• Time - when they do it
• Technique - How they do it
• Team - Whom they do it with
Impact on Leader(ship)
Learning (Education)? • Opening for learning
and change.
• Ability to innovate,
imagine.
• Ability to learn.
• Ability to collaborate &
socially construct with
others.
WHAT ARE WE DESIGNING?
What is LEADERSHIP
EDUCATION/LEARNING???
• Value/identity
development?
• Skill acquisition?
• A process of group
competence?
• What else?
Is leadership
education/learning
primarily:
Value/identity
development?
Is leadership
education/learning
primarily:
Skill acquisition?
Is leadership
education/learning
primarily:
Mastering group
processes?
A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL
Leadership education/learning that addresses:
•The needs of leaders
•The needs of followers
•A focus on how goals are chosen and achieved
•The organizational context
•The overarching cultural values of players
“leader” vs. “leadership”
Leader
Development
Focus on individual
capacities
• Self-awareness/regulation
• Human capital skills
• What individuals need to be
successful
LeaderSHIP
Development
Focus on group capacities
•Interpersonal relationships and obligations
•Building teams based on trust and
respect
•What teams need to be successful
Leader vs. Leadership
BOTH ARE IMPORTANT!
Within Leader Development:
•Should focus on FIT
•Do I see myself as a leader? Do others?
•Do I feel challenged by particIpating?
•Or am I presented with material where I feel like “I already know this”
Within LeaderSHIP Development
•Can I diagnose leadership situations accurately?
•Do I understand how to apply interpersonal concepts?
ASSESSING
RESULTS
ASSESSING RESULTS
KEY POINT:
The more intentional we are
with our design and our intended outcomes,
the easier our process of
demonstrating results
DESIGN → CURRICULUM →
CHECKING RESULTS
2012 SYMPOSIUM RESULTS
End-user design
•Clear communications?
•Attention to environment for learning?
•Role modeling from scholars / facilitators?
•Relevant and engaging content?
•Better/worse than other options?
Focus on outcomes
•Important take-aways?
•“What will you do next?”
QUESTIONS AND
DISCUSSION
What’s Up Next:
Student Involvement Assessment and Research: Measuring Student Learning
September 20, 2012 |1 - 2pm EST Presenter: Matt Garrett, Director, Office of Student Leadership & Service, Emory University
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