"Diversity, Learning Styles Learning Styles and Project Based Learning" Upgrading classroom methods for methods for Global Personal Learning Framework™

"Diversity, Learning Styles Learning Styles and Project Based Learning" Upgrading classroom methods for methods for Global Personal Learning Framework™

By Richard C. Close  The Chrysalis Campaign, Inc.

Framework™

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SpeakerSpeakerRichard C Close CEO‐Servant Chrysalis Campaign, Inc.– 25+ year Corp Learning 

markets– SUNY ESC Master research 

on Adult Learning, poverty and technology

– Developer of the Global Learning Framework™

– K‐12 and Poverty Methods– Author, developer,

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Author, developer, consultant

Common Core in a Uncommon WorldWalt Disney's Surprise Package (1944)Walt Disney s Surprise Package (1944). 

“Might Highty Tidy” By Dick Huemer and Joe Grant

In front of the jail, the Highty-Tighty put a great Highty-Tighty put a great machine. “Now,” he said, “begins the fun. We'll take these folk and stretch them a little here, squeeze them a little there, press a bit, flatten a bit, until their forms are just like mine!”

The people shook their fists and cried out angry shouts. But it was no use. One after the other, the short, the tall, the fat the lean were the fat, the lean, were crammed into the wide metal mouth of the dreadful machine. One after the other they tumbled out again,

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e u le ou g , stretched and flattened and absolutely square!

Agenda Learning Designs and Project Learning Designs and Project Based Learning

• Upgrading Learning Theories• Nature of collaboration • VARK Learning Styles• Personal Learning Framework™• Global Learning Framework and• Global Learning Framework and 

Learning Design• Class –curriculum methods• Homeless Women 

Learning Styles Class & Cases

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• STEM vs. HumanitiesCopyright RClose Kenya 2007

Upgrade Learning Theory and MethodsThey Must…• mirror Life• be super easy• integrate with gInternet

• intuitive• transform• be quantitativebe quantitative measurable

• be qualitative

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be qualitative with global world

Our Digital DivideOur Digital Divide

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San Jose High School graduating only 55% of the 2011 Class

Start with what’s in a real class?

• Five different Learning StylesFive different Learning Styles• Multiple personalities• Culture diversity• Race diversity• Religious diversity

50% T f di• 50% Trauma from divorce• 50% STDs• 27% Children of alcoholics27%  Children of alcoholics• Domestic violence• Bullied & social pressure

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http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov

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The Ed Theories BattleThe Ed Theories Battle

VS.

Social Darwinismlaissez‐faire capitalism;

John DeweyGlobal Collaboration

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laissez‐faire capitalism;

The Revolution of Digital Democracyh i di id l h iDemocracy empowers the individual to have a voice

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http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what‐are‐human‐rights/videos/right‐to‐democracy.html

Hurdles with Academic L i Th i d M h dLearning Theories and Methods

• Dated – Pre Web 2.0 collaborative• Research flaws (Academic base)• Does not consider poverty issues wellwell

• Does not handle societal trauma• Is top down not collaborativep• Not integrate with collaborative systems ( Worksheet plague)

• Needs to empower student w/• Needs to empower student w/ methods

• Still very social Darwinism in style “S i l f h fi ”

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“Survival of the fittest”

Critique of Experiential Learning Kolb

• Kolb and Fry (1975) argue that the learning cycle can begin at any one g y g yof the four points – and that it should really be approached as a continuous spiralcontinuous spiral.

Flaw• Consciousness is relational and not sequential• Definitions are vague• Does not map Neurologically like Meyers ‐

Briggs• Researched on academic wealth and not 

working class or poverty.D t t ith ll b ti ld

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• Does not connect with collaborative world

http://infed.org/mobi/david‐a‐kolb‐on‐experiential‐learning/

Education Needs an Upgrade• Methods to  handle diversity• Curriculum to handle  global knowledge g g• Methods to teach collaboration• Ways to build a broken spirit

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Change

This is not about the student’s di i idigital literacy.

This is about academicdigital literacy.

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Industrial “One-to-Many” Model

Industrial Authoritarian Instruction

One Way Model

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We are still living in a colonial Lie…We are still living in a colonial Lie…

Even though…g• there is no island• no one is lost• digital democracy is here

h f it i• we have proof it is an academic myth– Woodstock– Lost boys of Sudan– FacebBook

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Public Media and Curriculum Have Al d M dAlready Merged

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http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what‐are‐human‐rights/videos/no‐slavery.html

The First Big Question…

How is an individuald iIntegrated with

Global Knowledge? Global Knowledge?

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Personal Learning Framework™ Personal Learning Framework

The Creative Loop

Collaborative Personal  Collaborative 

The Creative Loop

Perceptuall

Create w/ How we perceive, process and produce

Input Processing  Output Filters  Competencies 

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Personal Learning Framework ™Personal Learning Framework   

The Creative Loop

Collaborative Personal  Collaborative 

The Creative Loop

Perceptualil

Create w/ How we perceive, process and produce

Input Processing  Output Filters Competencies 

Visual Study Strategies (V)( )Aural Study Strategies (A)

Read/write Study Strategies (R)Kinesthetic Study Strategies (K)Kinesthetic Study Strategies (K)Multimodal Study Strategies (MM)

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What is our approach to Learning Styles?What is our approach to Learning Styles?

Adopt to the student’s

Learning  Stylesg y

Empower the student w/student w/

Learning Styles

i hJust go with the curriculum

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How can different learning styles learn together?

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learn together?Copyright Warner Brothers

Personal Learning Framework ™ Personal Learning Framework

The Creative Loop

Collaborative Personal  Collaborative 

The Creative Loop

Perceptualk ll

Create w/ How we perceive, process and produce

Input Processing  Output Skills  Competencies 

Sensing (S): Focus on tangible data, what is known (past and now), practical means.known (past and now), practical means.Intuiting (N): Focus on concepts, patterns, potential (future or atemporal), what‐if. Thinking (T): Decide / organize based on g ( ) / gobjective criteria, impersonal principles.Feeling (F): Decide / organize based on harmony with personal and group values. 

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Source: EEGandSocialCognition.pdf 

How Values Impact LearningHow Values Impact Learning“Learned rules” th t d fi if t t i

Little Albert experimentthat define if content is:• Positive or Negative• Trust or distrust

d d

p‐ John B Watson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little Albert experim • Good or Bad

• Embrace or reject• Curious or cautious

iki/Little_Albert_experiment

• Accept or Defend• Adopt or reject• Must have or avoid• Three Gunas (Satva, Rajas Tamas) • Yin or Yang (dark and light)

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The Intensity of Poverty and Trauma on Educational Methodson Educational Methods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4gmdl3zNQ&feature=share&list=FLYqjsxDQdxthh4OsrEdqSUA

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Personal Learning Framework ™Personal Learning Framework   

The Creative Loop

Collaborative Personal Collaborative 

The Creative Loop

Perceptuall

Create w/ i

How we perceive, process and produce

Input Processing Output Filters  Competencies 

• Communication Competencies• Creative Competencies• Creative Competencies• Workforce Skills• Life Skills • Literacy Competencies• Cultural Competencies

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Personal Learning Framework™

The Creative Loop

Collaborative Personal  Collaborative 

The Creative Loop

Perceptuall

Create w/ How we perceive, process and produce

Input Processing  Output Filters  Competencies 

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How does the individual fit in with th Gl b l W b & C i l ?the Global Web & Curriculum?

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Yo Break it Down…

How do we;Intake,ProcessProcess

and Create?

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Personal Learning Frameworks ™Wh t i i i ?What is experiencing?

Learning Styles

LifeSkills

CREATEINTAKE

Physical

PROCESS

Ob i &

Non‐Physical

Observation & Analysis

Values & Reaction

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Personal Learning Frameworks ™Personal Experience: Perceive, Process and Create

Learning Styles

LifeSkills

INTAKE  CREATEPhysical

PROCESS

Ob i &

Non‐Physical

Observation & Analysis

Values & Reaction

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Personal Learning Frameworks ™gCurriculum View: Perceive, Process and Create

Challenge Competence

Resources ExpressionPhysical INTAKE  CREATE

Ob i &

Physical

Non‐Physical

PROCESSObservation & 

AnalysisValues & Reaction

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Break it Down… More

How do we “Process”?

How do we learn or ignore life’s How do we learn , or ignore, life s lessons in the world?

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Personal Learning Frameworks ™How do we process?... Build character!How do we process?... uild character!

Responseto the 

ObservationSorting 

Contextof Logical 

Valuesof Emotional

Outside World• Create• Fix

Filter• Intention• Focus• Noise

Relationships• Classification• Questioning• Investigating

Relationships• Value 

systemP l • Fight

• Flight• ObserveI

• Noise • Decipher• Explore• Ignore

• Investigating• Analyzing• Hypothesizing• Designing

• Personal History

• Global /& Local

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• Ignore• Reflect

• Filter • Interpreting• Synthesizing

Local Culture

Meyers & Briggs Overlay of PLF™

INTAKE  CREATEExtravert  (E)Personality 

PROCESSIntrovert  (I) or Character

Responseto the 

ObservationSorting 

Contextof Logical 

Valuesof Emotional

Outside World• Create• Fix

Filter• Intention• Focus• Noise

Relationships• Classification• Questioning• Investigating

Relationships• Value 

systemSTRUCTUREDESCISIONINFORMATION DESCISION • Fight

• Flight• ObserveI

• Noise • Decipher• Explore• Ignore

• Investigating• Analyzing• Hypothesizing• Designing

• Personal History

• Global & Local

STRUCTUREJudging (J)

Perceiving (P)

DESCISIONThinking ((T)

INFORMATIONSensing (S)Intuition (N)

DESCISIONFeeling ((F)

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• Ignore• Reflect

• Filter • Interpreting• Synthesizing

Local Culture

Four Pillars overlay of PLF™

Learn to doINTAKE  CREATE

PROCESS

Responseto the 

ObservationSorting 

Contextof Logical 

Valuesof Emotional

Outside WorldFilter• Intention• Focus• Noise

Relationships Relationships

Learn to Know• Noise • Decipher• Explore• Ignore

Learn to be

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• Filter Learn to Live Together

Demming’s Sig Sigma loosely mapped to GLF:

DiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborate

DEFINE MEASURE ANALYSE IMPROVE CONTROLDEFINE MEASURE ANALYSE IMPROVE CONTROL

Research w/Conclusions

Test with systems

ProductionFeedback

Demmining’s Sig Sigma DMAIC Improvement Model

Conclusions systems and People

Feedback Loops

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The Clash of the CurriculumsScience vs. Humanities

INTAKE  CREATE

PROCESS

ObservationSorting 

Contextof Logical 

Responseto the 

Valuesof Emotional

Filter• Intention• Focus• Noise

Relationships• Classification• Questioning• Investigating

outside world• Create• Fix

Relationships• Value 

system• Noise • Decipher• Explore• Ignore

• Investigating• Analyzing• Hypothesizing• Designing

• Fight• Flight• ObserveI

• Personal History

• CulturesP li

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• Filter • Interpreting• Synthesizing

• Ignore• Reflect

• Personality

Knowledge without context is… dangerous Knowledge without context is… dangerous

Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994)

“The knife can kill” From the play “The Lesson”

The Knife (or nuclear bomb) just is…. now what we do with it is another matter.

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Technology & Media Without Human Values

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Our Value System Comes from the HumanitiesOur Value System Comes from the Humanities

Values manage/judge every piece g /j g y pof content and context through a mental filters. Values are

This math is a waist of time

Values are …• Cultural• Go – No Go

I will end up in a gang like dad.

• Fight or Flight• Positive or negative• Productive or destructive

O e da I ill • Loving or selfish• Good or bad• Motivating or de‐motivating

One day I will have my own

company.

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• Motivating or de‐motivating  y

Question…

How do we learn togetheri i b b iwithin a global collaborative

framework?framework?

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What is the process of collaborative community learning?

We need a Global Learning Framework ™

Problem Discover Adopt Collaborate Share

Self Contained “Local” Course and Content… me‐and‐my‐bubble

Prepare Present PracticeAdult Learning Performance

Assess Present TestTraditional eLearning

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eLearning

How the student learns with a global community: “Micro Learning Framework™g

I need to I will chooset thi

I willbli h I need to

know to own thisknowledge

publish my discovery

DiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborate

Explore Validate Explorewhat else

relates to this

Validate how it fits into the world

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world

The Framework of transformation.

Personal

Global Change

DiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborate

Personal Change

Discover Adopt ShareCollaborate

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Problem Solving

Our Personal Learning Framework experience moves

Adopt ShareCollaborateDiscoverProblem

Our Personal Learning Framework experience moveswithin the Global Learning Framework (community).

INTAKE  CREATE INTAKE  CREATE INTAKE  CREATE INTAKE  CREATE

Adopt ShareCollaborateDiscoverProblem

PROCESS PROCESS PROCESS PROCESS

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Collaborative ProblemProblemSolving CREATE

PROCESS

INTAKE CREATE

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Design LessonDesign Lesson

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Adventure Based Learning?Adventure Based Learning?Global Learning Framework© Copyright 2009 Richard C. Close, No version can be reproduced in any format.  

ggCopyright Disney

“Micro Learning Paths™” in PBL Curriculum

DiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborate

AgreementExplore

What is Balance in art?

Relationalsearching art images

Poster‐board sheet

GroupArt Project Published 

Galleries(for parents)in art? (for parents)

Photo in Blog

YouTube Cartoon

Social  Networking (Mightybell)Group presents to class

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Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt Lesson

What is you gifts?h h bWhat is the best way to 

learn for you?

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Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt Lesson

Vark website

Online Learning System• Cyber Library 10,000 plus sitesp

• Filter• Lesson launcher• Lesson launcher• BASCOM.com

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Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt LessonVARK Assessment• Online test for automated results

• Team up women for PC & literacy issues.y

• Download learning GuidesGuides

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Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt LessonFacilitate adoption• Paper based student study SWOT guides

• Discussion Guide• Student JournalingStudent Journaling• Individual Counseling

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Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt LessonSmall Group DiscussionsI L i St l• Is your Learning Styles assessment accurate?

• What are other people in• What are other people in you family?

• What if other people inWhat if other people in work are different?

• How can you communicateHow can you communicate differently?

• Discuss study options.

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Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt Lesson

• Each person shares in small group• Each person shares in small group discussions.

• Each student publishes blog in p gprivate Ning page or in composition book.P ti th i i i

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• Practice on other women in mission

Art LessonDiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborateArt Lesson

The women completed the build  of  a YouTube Gospel Music Channel in just 2 hours with 150 plus songs by playlistssongs by playlists

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DiscoverProblem Adopt ShareCollaborate

Transformative evidence Transformative evidence.. “Writing to heal “ Lesson

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Collaborative  By Richard  C. CloseThe Chrysalis Campaign, Inc.

PROCESSQuestions New Milford, CT [email protected]: iamafricastory

Richardclose blogspot comINTAKE  CREATE

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PROCESSMicro Learning Paths, Global Learning Framework, 

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Contest at:http://this‐is‐my‐story.ning.com

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GLF Program EvaluationINTAKE  CREATE

PROCESS CurrentState

LearningEvent

ChangedState

Challenge

Resources ‐Env. CExp M

Observation & Analysis

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Competence