Chris and Leanne from Edge Work (Auckland University of Technology) engaged our educators in some intense and valuable professional learning in Week 8. They are skilled facilitators who challenge the status quo and believe that the Future needs something different from education. Some of the key takeaways:
- We need to meet to create rather than inform. Question: how can we set up our time together to allow the unimaginable to happen?
- We need to value diversity in our school and community. Question: How can we work to raise our collective intelligence
- We can to use Safe to Fail Probes (not fail safe)- collaborative inquiries that are low in cost (time, money, energy). A method to trial multiple things/inquiries at once. Question: How can we use this process to explore how to use our Learning Model smartly
Our team brainstormed a Safe to Fail Probe in groups of four and then engaged in a process known as ‘ritual dissent’ where one person from each group wears a mask and pitches the idea to another group and then receives very critical feedback. We certainly practiced our resilience! This was a way to use inquiry to learn- so we noticed things we wouldn’t usually notice.
Our Safe to Fail Probe Experiment ideas:
- Critical Friendships and Learning Pathways
- Cultural Day
- Multiple Intelligences in iExplore
- Independent Learner Behaviour Programme
We are looking forward to using this process again to engage our educators in a robust ‘Scanning’ phase of their Spiral of Inquiry (Kaser & Halber, 2014).
