On Thursday and Friday, March 13-14, our IVET group gathered for two contact days at OAMK in Oulu. The days went something like this:
Thursday AM: EduSci Debates (Blair)
Thursday PM: 'Wheel of Assessment' Activities (Blair)
Friday: Voc I and Voc II Wrap-up (Juha)
Both days were effective, but in different ways.
We had been preparing for the EduSci debates for some time, as they were the culmination of Part II (of III) in our Basics of Educational Sciences course. My group (Team Pink) had earlier been assigned to research, present, defend and now debate AGAINST the following statement:
"All learning at the vocational education level can and should have a measurable outcome."
In essence, we took the approach that we would try to prove that not all such learning has a measureable outcome. We also pushed the idea that not all such learning is measurable.
The debate went quite well, although finding actual sources to defend our position took a great deal of time when we were originally doing the research earlier this year. My Team Pink colleagues were Virpi, Minna and Aleksandra, and it was a nice team to work with. We spent many hours together online preparing (Adobe Connect, Skype), which was not easy, but it ended up being worthwhile.
The 'Wheel of Assessment' that Blair prepared was excellent. I will comment on this more in the EduSci section of this blog.
Finally, Juha led our class time together on Friday. Most of the day was used as a way to review and wrap-up the VOC I portion of the course. Even though this officially ended back in December, when we had a peer-review of each other's blogs (the main assessment tool for the course), Juha had told us (in general) that some of us needed to add more detail to our blogs in order to get a 'pass'. In recent weeks, he added more detail about what was missing, and we reviewed those things together in class. Then we had another peer assessment (and presentation) of our blogs, when Juha did some on-the-spot assessing as to whether or not they were complete. In the end, I have a few additions to make (commenting on other group presentations and overall learning), and then I should be done!
All-in-all, it was a very worthwhile time in Oulu, and it was nice to spend time together with classmates that I have mostly gotten to know 'virtually'!
Thursday AM: EduSci Debates (Blair)
Thursday PM: 'Wheel of Assessment' Activities (Blair)
Friday: Voc I and Voc II Wrap-up (Juha)
Both days were effective, but in different ways.
We had been preparing for the EduSci debates for some time, as they were the culmination of Part II (of III) in our Basics of Educational Sciences course. My group (Team Pink) had earlier been assigned to research, present, defend and now debate AGAINST the following statement:
"All learning at the vocational education level can and should have a measurable outcome."
In essence, we took the approach that we would try to prove that not all such learning has a measureable outcome. We also pushed the idea that not all such learning is measurable.
The debate went quite well, although finding actual sources to defend our position took a great deal of time when we were originally doing the research earlier this year. My Team Pink colleagues were Virpi, Minna and Aleksandra, and it was a nice team to work with. We spent many hours together online preparing (Adobe Connect, Skype), which was not easy, but it ended up being worthwhile.
The 'Wheel of Assessment' that Blair prepared was excellent. I will comment on this more in the EduSci section of this blog.
Finally, Juha led our class time together on Friday. Most of the day was used as a way to review and wrap-up the VOC I portion of the course. Even though this officially ended back in December, when we had a peer-review of each other's blogs (the main assessment tool for the course), Juha had told us (in general) that some of us needed to add more detail to our blogs in order to get a 'pass'. In recent weeks, he added more detail about what was missing, and we reviewed those things together in class. Then we had another peer assessment (and presentation) of our blogs, when Juha did some on-the-spot assessing as to whether or not they were complete. In the end, I have a few additions to make (commenting on other group presentations and overall learning), and then I should be done!
All-in-all, it was a very worthwhile time in Oulu, and it was nice to spend time together with classmates that I have mostly gotten to know 'virtually'!
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