June 2021 – Online Teaching and Learning

Connecting to the Land by Canoe

by Dana on 17 June 2021 with No Comments

As a child I spent a lot of time each summer in a canoe. So much so, that at 15 I was comfortable standing in a canoe and doing a complete 360 (a ‘test’ we had to do before heading … Read More

Keeping the positive feedback loop going

by Dana on 7 June 2021 with No Comments

What is feedback? Wikipedia indicates that “feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself.” This definition may appear at first … Read More

What we get and what we want should always be the same thing

by Dana on 1 June 2021 with 1 Comment

Asking how we (the instructor) can get students to learn what we want them to learn is a flawed perspective. It has an air of authoritarianism on the part of the instructor, which leaves the student as a passive recipient … Read More