Course Strands and Dimensions of Learning
as correlated with UNM
Conceptual Framework
Means of interpreting and assessing your
achievement will involve Course Strands
and Dimensions of Learning.
It is important that you are made
aware of the course strands and the five dimensions of learning. This
evaluative process provides a framework with which you can see and evaluate
your own growth. As learners, you are measuring your own learning, given the
strands and dimensions, considering them in relation to your prior learning and
what you have achieved during our course.
Four
major strands of work:
communication, research, technology, and collaboration
Five
dimensions of learning:
Final Summary
We wanted to maintain a relaxed ‘kitchen table’ feel so we
explored resources within our community and students took an active part in
this. The class outings were fun to share stories-cultural stories and personal
stories for they are synonymous.
Genres were discussed to help understand and to become versed in
using the literary terms and references.
The course blog was a way to share
course content and resources and begin course dialogue. Email was a
communication tool used in between class and individual webpages
were a way for students to house their intellectual property and thereby owning it by individualizing it
according to their own learning styles. I communicated in between class by
providing updates of things to come and shared conversations of guests visitors
with class members. I kept students informed also by providing a tentative
schedule of class topics. Although we may not have always been on schedule, we
accomplished our course goals eventually. Our class was more like living and
sharing stories in the moment-trying to keep it a more natural, conversational
learning environment. I tried to model for students everything I asked of them
and felt I was a participant as well as an instructor.
I drew upon my own experiences at
and
http://kidskollege.tripod.com/nastorytelling/
and https://brokenflute-unm.tripod.com/natam/
and https://brokenflute-unm.tripod.com/shiprock/
and
https://brokenflute-unm.tripod.com/superheros/
)
This has been a wonderful opportunity for me to connect with
people who I respect, who have expertise and whom I want students to meet
because they are special to me. It is like sharing members of my learning
community with them. I wanted to have students do more than mere class
exercises. I wanted them to experience something meaningful personally and then
to be able to share that with others. In this case it was Kids Kollege. Helping students see that stories and storytelling
are inherent human traits was important. We all come from stories; we are wired
for stories and remain storytelling primates. As Benjamin Whorf said, “Language
is the greatest show man puts on.” So hopefully we can honor the balance
between the written word as well as the oral word.
This
summer course has been a wonderful learning experience with students who were
eager, friendly, built a sense of community, who listened to others in
conversation and who wanted to learn and be changed in the process. How have
you changed is the question I would want to know. How have I changed? I hear
your voices and see your faces when I consider a question. I want to know what
you would think. “Literature is a map of what it is to be human” Lisa Renner
said. Hopefully in my understanding of this course content-wise and through
you, the course participants, I can read pieces of the map better in critiquing
Native American children’s literature as well as multicultural literature in
general.
Alternative plans if no KIDS KOLLEGE-Genre & Content Jeopardy, Debriefing
Textbook Read stories for Cuentos, Hane & Tales at KSJE Radio Station.