Leadership in Professional Learning by Alicia Mutton

Welcome to Padlet!

amutton1 — 2025-02-19 22:46:16 UTC

Welcome to my Leadership in Professional Learning Padlet. My name is Alicia and I've created this space to explore a few key concepts from our course using the medium of Padlet! Padlet offers a free, cloud-based platform which anyone can create with and access. This is my first time creating and presenting with Padlet which I am very excited about!

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It's Time to Play!

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Integrating the pedagogy of play. Click on this link to add your own AI generated graphic to the board!

Collaboration in Education

amutton1 — 2025-02-26 01:49:20 UTC

Collaboration in educational settings has been shown to "contribute positively to the development of other skills like problem solving, creativity, and critical thinking" (Shurmann et. al 2023). It's important to recognize that collaboration isn't just working in groups with an intention of division of labour for an assignment or assessment. Bedwell et. al (2012) emphasize that "having a shared goal (to solve a problem) is an important characteristic of collaboration and often the reason for working together".

Classroom Map

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Click on this graphic to view and add to our classroom map.

Encouraging Play in Education

amutton1 — 2025-02-27 02:00:28 UTC

Encouraging play in a post-secondary setting is challenging. It's important to remember that “play is not just physical interaction” not is it "only about playing games”. Rather we can think of play as “engaging in social interactions and interacting with playful thoughts” (Leather et. al 2020)

Reflecting on the Experience

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Discussion Board

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Use this discussion board to comment on which course you plan to take next (or if you're finishing the program!)

References

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Goulet, Linda; Krentz, Caroline; Christiansen, Helen. (2003) Collaboration in education: the phenomenon of process of working together. The Alberta Journal of Educational Research. 4(325-340)

Leather, Mark; Harper, Nevin; Obee, Patricia. (2020) A pedagogy of play: reasons to be playful in postsecondary education. Journal of Experiential Education, 44(3) (208–226)

Miller, Andrew. (2015) Freedom to fail: How do I foster risk-taking and innovation in my classroom? ASCD. (pp. 30–34)

Schurmann, Verena; Marquardt, Nicki; Bodemer, Daniel. (2023) Conceptualization and measurement of peer collaboration in higher education: A systemic review. Small Group Research. 55(1) 89–138

Villarroel, Verónica; Benavente, Mariavictoria; Chuecas, María Josefina; and Bruna, Daniela. (2020) Experiential learning in higher education. A student-centred teaching method that improves perceived learning. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 17(5)