This has been an interesting week of learning for me. And already it’s given me ideas on how I might change the course I teach. I have been struggling to keep up with the work because it’s a busy time. This has made me think about how that must feel for a learner who is doing a more demanding course – the impact on feeling part of things, trying to squash it in etc.
I have liked the way we are being encouraged to consider from the outset how this all might feel for the learner. I found the post-its about emojis interesting. I felt a bit differently to what seemed to be the majority view. I guess it comes back to how they are received. For me they are a way of trying to encourage, maybe connect and a quick way to ‘do tone’. At the start of the course I teach we’d done a ground rules exercise and emojis were a hit 🙂
Looking forward to learning more!!
Fiona
That looks like a good list, Fiona, and it is always good to set the ‘ground rules’. Maybe I should have done that on this course, but we are working with a group of professionals here. Nevertheless, it’s good to make it explicit. And I’m quite a fan of an emoji, used in an appropriate way! 🙂