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T is for Training 328 – You Don’t Want Your Grandmother to Clean That Up…

T is for Training 328 -(recording) You Don’t Want Your Grandmother to Clean That Up (this was a fantastic episode)

The show was recorded on January 26^th 2023. Due to my computer completely freaking the * out, we recorded it in Zoom. Thanks, Paul!

Next Episode is on February 9th at 9 pm eastern.

[and thanks Jill who is the usual editor and makes a hard job look incredibly easy.]

The panelists were Paul Signorelli, Tom Haymes, Buffy Hamilton, and Maurice Coleman.

Here’s a link to an article that gives us a framework for the conversation:

https://howtobecomethebest.com/build-knowledge/

The gist of the framework is the idea that

“Learning can be divided into four basic parts: concepts (definitions and examples), processes (how it works sequences), principles (cause and effect relationships), and productions (procedures/classification).”

That’s from Glenn Seki’s short self-published book, How to Become the Best at Anything (a 68-page essay with additional resources included).

The ball rolled from there to hit:

See think wonder.

Teach the big concept –

SOAPSTone text analysis – We need to teach people how to use this (or a variation) on every social media platform.

Some students come with a critical thinking framework, some you have to install the framework before you can ensure they will learn something they can use in real life.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos.

AI is transforming education.

Education shouldn’t be a black box.

Resources:

How Tom Learned to Stop Worrying about ChatGPT (from the Shaping Edu Blog.)

Making Thinking Visible – Project Zero Classroom

Check out Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America’s Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change IT by Peter Sacks

inspired by Harvey Daniels, some of his work is in Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America’s Classrooms 4th Edition

SOAPSTone Text analysis. The link and image are from the SunWest Schools Site.

Upcoming Episodes, 2022 (The host messed up some dates)

The host misinformed the best training podcast blog editor about the upcoming show dates. (Sorry, Jill) The correct show dates are listed below into 2023.

Show 321 – October 6
Show 322 – October 20
Show 323 – November 3rd (Updated date)
Show 324 -November 17th (Updated date)
Show 325 -December 1st (Updated date)
Show 326 -December 15 (Updated date)
Show 327 –January 12th 2023! (Updated date)

@TisForTraining 300: Preview and Invitation to the Dance

As we look forward (on December 2, 2021) to recording Episode #300—where have all those years gone?—of Maurice Coleman’s fabulous T is for Training podcast for trainer-teacher-learners working in and with libraries, I think, with gratitude, of all that Maurice and that community add to my life and to the lives of so many others.

Initiated in 2008 when Maurice decided—correctly, as it turns out—that a podcast might be an effective way to “replicate the vibe and comradery I felt at conferences where I was surrounded with brilliant members of my ‘tribe’ of trainers, computer folks and other gear/near/cool folk heads.”

T has always been more than a podcast. It’s a virtual meeting space…and I hope you’ll join us, via TalkShoe, for the recording of this episode Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT: https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/16483204. Drop in to say “hello.” To tell a story about how T has has a positive impact on you and the learners you serve. Or to simply tell Maurice how lucky we are that he so consistently provides a forum for creative, transformative conversations for trainer-teacher-learners. (To see a longer version of this piece, please visit my Building Creative Bridges blog.)

–Paul Signorelli

September 2021 at T is for Training

Whether you’re a long-time supporter of T is for Training or new to the game/program, you’ll want to check out our episodes for September 2021.

Thursday, September 9, 2021, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT—Long-time T is for Training Usual Suspect Tom Haymes and our colleague Ruben Puentedura, Founder/President of Hippasus (hippasus.com) are joining us for a discussion about how we can help our learners map their learning experience according to their learning needs. The background, from Tom: Most students don’t get to map out their learning journeys. They choose a course of study, some courses within that course of study, but beyond that, the courses give them a normative set of skills. More than a decade ago, Wayne Brent of the University of Arizona mapped out a system (https://gameua.wordpress.com) for his graduate program in instructional design students that allowed them to accumulate points in the manner of a role-playing-game. This system gave them the agency to practice particular skills they wanted to sharpen. In this way, he allowed his students to map their learning experience according to their learning needs, not the predefined needs of the program or course. Hope you’ll join us for the discussion.

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT—Rita Bailey, Sardek Love, and Paul Signorelli were among the trainer-teacher-learners traveling to Salt Lake City for the 2021 ATD (Association for Talent Development) International Conference & Exposition earlier this month to facilitate their first onsite learning sessions since the pandemic began. What they found was a dynamic, much-changed learning environment grounded in social-distancing practices that required a bit of pivoting to keep their sessions highly-interactive and engaging. Join us for this discussion of what trainer-teacher-learners need to know about facilitating onsite learning in the pandemic era.

–Posted by Paul Signorelli

There’s Gonna Be Fireworks And Some Battery Recharging

No, I did not write this headline, but we are taking July 1st off from recording and will be back July 15th. Enjoy some family time, downtime fun time, whatever makes you feel better!

See you on July 15th.

@TisForTraining 276: Getting Your Hands Dirty in a Digital World

Maurice Coleman, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli and Tom Haymes talked about Tom’s upcoming book Learn at Your Own Risk: 9 Strategies for Teaching in a Pandemic and Beyond, which will be published very soon. The book details how to design a human-centric future of learning emerges from pandemic teaching experience. According to the books’s press release:

Learning is a process of conversation, between the teacher and students, among the students, and, most importantly, within the minds of the students themselves. We have lost sight of this as teaching technology, starting with the blackboard in the mid-19th Century, emphasized the broadcast of learning rather its facilitation. Remote teaching has exposed the cracks in this approach. From the book, “To make something digital is to make transparent all of its flaws. What we are seeing right now is the lifting of the veil that has obscured the vast majority of teaching that occurs in our classrooms on a daily basis.” We can do better. We owe it to our students.

Learn at Your Own Risk represents a set of 9 strategies designed to help teachers rethink how they reach their students; using technology to bring the student to learning rather than using it to fling learning to the digital winds. The book starts with the central premise that there is no substitute for the human connections at the center of learning. Technology can augment but never replace those connections. Digital technology also gives us opportunities to manipulate time and space in ways that were impossible when we relied exclusively on the physical world to communicate with our students.

The book is both strategy and practical advice. Besides the quick guides, there is also a deeper dive into the strategies.

Due the podcast, Tom made the point that we have been humans conforming to technology, rather that conforming technology to humans. Technology allows us to build education that starts and ends with the learner.

After talking about education, we turned our attention to conference, and then thinking about what is occurring in other countries.

You can listen to the full episode on TalkShoe or through your favorite podcast platform.

FYI… Paul Signorelli’s book is coming out soon (Dec. 15) Change the World using Social Media. Jill Hurst-Wahl is giving an eCourse on copyright starting on Feb. 1. Details about U.S. Copyright Law in the Library: A Beginner’s Guide eCourse are on the ALA website.

@TisForTraining is on Hiatus until Sept. 10

The heat of the summer, the pandemic, technology, and everything else are weighing upon us. So we’re going to take a hiatus until Thursday, Sept. 10. We look forward to recording a new T is for Training then.

For now…remember to wear your mask!

Update on T is for Training & July 30

Dear T is for Training friends,

You likely know that TalkShoe has given us problems this year, which has caused us to miss some of our episodes. Two weeks ago, we made a last minute move to Zoom and recorded the audio. It works, but it does create a multiple step process, which has its own hassles. We are looking into alternatives and hope to have our ducks in a row for Aug. 13.In the meantime, there will be no T on July 30.

[Image by mike krzeszak on Flickr.]

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T Rides Tonight!

So we are going to try an evening recording of the podcast. Tonight at 9 eastern via talkshoe. Call information is on the sidebar.

Sorry that there are no real links but i am doing this from my older phone.

See some of you then.

No show this July 5th.

We will not be recording this coming Friday, July 5th, 2019. We have been given a day off and will use it for increased consumption of Vitamin D.

The only constant in life is change and this show is no different.

Don’t worry, the show will continue. That much I can say for now.

Stay tuned for updates in the coming weeks.