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Learning Intensive – Week 2

Overview

Week 2 of the Learning Intensive continues to focus on introducing Western and Traditional Indigenous Knowledges, theories, and perspectives on leadership, climate action, climate adaptation, resilience, and design thinking. To support you in this work, this week focuses on the CAL 501 Design Challenge and you will work with your team through the Empathy and Inquiry phases of the design thinking process. The panelists and readings introduced this week will help you as you deepen your understandings of the possibilities of the design challenge and work toward problem finding.

Activities and Assessment

  • Read Week 2 readings as required by each seminar in order to participate in discussing and analyzing various approaches, and their intersection, to climate adaptation, resilience and Indigenous world views
    • See the Schedule for reading details and timing.
  • Create and participate in community building activities.
  • Create your student blog.
  • Begin work on the CAL501 Design Challenge.
  • Continue the discussion on complex systems.
  • Contribute to the MACAL course community.
  • Complete Assignment 1.
  • Complete Assignment 2.
  • Complete Assignment 3.

Learning Intensive Week 2 –  Schedule

This is the most current detailed scheduled for Week 2 of the Learning Intensive. Please consider this a living document as times for synchronous sessions may change dependent upon speaker availability etc.

Access the Week 2 Schedule (Google Document)

Activity 10 Learning Intensive Week 2 –  CAL 501 Design Challenge

Begin work on the CAL 501 design challenge introduced in Day 6. The focus during the Learning Intensive is not to complete the challenge but to “hurry slowly” as you go deep into building empathy and inquiring into problem finding.

Working in your teams, the tasks for the week on this activity are as follows:

  1. Share summaries created on the weekend
  2. Using the CAL 501 Design Thinking Worksheet interview each other in team re: perspectives to inform understanding of this problem/challenge.
  3. The Cognitive Affective Mapping (CAM) tool or other similar concept mapping tools (e.g. Miro, Mindmap) maybe helpful as you build an understanding of the problem. You can learn more about the CAM tool here.
    1. This may help you as you are working to develop your own broader understanding of the design challenge and/or when you come together with your team. For example, you may choose to compare individual maps and/or create a team one.
  4. Come back as a group and discuss interviews, your distributed learning summaries etc. all of which are informing your developing sense of the problem definition, update your concept map (if that is helpful) etc.
  5. As a team further define/frame the problem/challenge.
  6. Work together to create the Assignment 2 presentation as per the Assignment 2 description.

There is time build into the schedule for this week for team work as you move through these tasks and work to complete Assignment 2.

Activity 11 – Learning Intensive Week 2– Indigenous Scholar Small Group Conversations

Join into your small group conversation with our Indigenous scholars base on the time you signed up for on the sign up sheet  this past weekend.

Find a way that works for you to take notes and make observations as they will be helpful as you work with your team on the CAL 501 Design Challenge, and as you think about Assignment 1.

Activity 12 Learning Intensive Week 2 – Begin Distributed Learning Summaries (Assignment 3)

Distributed learning creates an opportunity for a team to extend the scope of its learning by having individual team members contribute ideas from different sources. In other words, the learning is distributed across the team, and then integrated by the team.

For this activity, each member of your team will complete a self-directed study using the library databases, and search engines to identify and retrieve two relevant resources (readings, videos, recorded webinars, other) that can help inform the CALS 501 design thinking challenge. Remember that not all searches or resources are equal. Review the following RRU Library resources prior to beginning your search:

  1. Tips for Refining Your Searchd
  2. Library’s Evaluating your sources
  3. Tips Searching Google Scholar
  4. Open Educational Resources

Once you have reviewed these resources, each team member should search for 2 relevant resources. You will need to coordinate as a team so that you are all identifying unique resources. One way to do this is to plan ahead and have each team member search for resources that relate to specific aspects or dimensions of the challenge identified. Each team member will  prepare two brief summaries (approximately 500 words/summary- which is the equivalent of one page single spaced) based on the resources they have collected. 

See Assignment 3 for details on how to write the summaries.

Draft Summaries – Due in class mid week  Learning Intensive Week 2 – check Learning Intensive Schedule

Final Summaries Submit to Moodle Drop Box

Activity 13 – Learning Intensive Week 2– Climate Career Management Conversations

Each team will have a meeting with our MACAL career management coach. This provides an opportunity to explore tips for managing your learning and career in what is an emerging disciplinary area. Check the sign up sheet if you cannot remember your appointment time.

Activity 14 – Learning Intensive Week 2 – Draft Assignment 1

Submit your draft of Assignment 1 to the Moodle dropbox Draft Assignment 1. Course instructor will provide you with some general formative feedback on the last day of the Learning Intensive for you to consider as you revise your draft.

Activity 15 – Learning Intensive Week 2 – CAL501 Design Challenge Team Presentations

See Learning Intensive Schedule for timing.

Complete and Submit Assignment 1

Submit your revised Assignment 1 to the Moodle dropbox Final Assignment 1. See Schedule for due date.

Complete and Submit Assignment 2

Submit your Assignment 2 to the Moodle dropbox Assignment 2. See Schedule for due date.

 Complete and Submit Assignment 3

Submit your final Assignment 3 Summaries to the Moodle dropbox Final Assignment 3. See Schedule for due date.