The document outlines the schedule and assignments for day two of a media literacy workshop for information professionals, including developing an elevator pitch for a workshop, designing the full workshop in groups, and preparing to do a trial run of part of the workshop the following day before concluding with an evaluation. Participants learned about teaching methods, workshop design, formulating goals and objectives, and choosing learning activities aligned with objectives.

1. Good morning!
Media Literacy for the Information Professional
Day two
Tuesday 4 May 2010

2. The Program for Today
Teaching Methods
Assignment: Elevator Pitch
11.15 Coffee Break
Assignment: Design Workshop
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Assignment: Design Workshop
Looking Back and Looking Forward
16.30 End of Workshop: Drinks

3. Teaching Methods
About Learning
Deep learning
• Actively looking for meaning
• Asking questions
• Processing critically
• Relating theory to practice
Superficial learning
• Learning for test
• Memorizing
• No bigger picture

4. Teaching Methods
About Learning
E valuation
Bloom’s taxonomy
Classification of S ynthes is
forms and levels of learning
A nalys is
A pplic ation
C omprehens ion
Knowledge
Bloom B S (ed.) (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, the classification of
educational goals – Handbook I: Cognitive Domain New York: McKay

5. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Who
Starting point Target group
are you teaching?
Why
Link with ‘real life’ Learning need
should they learn?
What
should they learn? Preferred behavior Goal
What
should they learn? Elements of behavior Objectives
How
Learning Activities
should they learn?

6. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Who
Base for learning Target group
are you teaching?
“The most important single factor influencing learning is what
the learner already knows"
Ausubel in Novak, 1998, p.71

7. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Why
Link with ‘real life’ Learning need
should they learn?
Formulate need for learning:
• What problems will they experience if they don’t join the workshop?
• What makes your workshop essential for participants?

8. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Why goals and objectives?
• Design: content, activities and assessment
• Manage expectations
• Transferability and continuity
What
should they learn? Preferred behavior Goal
What
should they learn? Elements of behavior Objectives

9. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
How to formulate goals and objectives?
• At the end of the workshop the participant can…
• Content and behavior
What
should they learn? Preferred behavior Goal
What
should they learn? Elements of behavior Objectives

10. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Formulate goal of workshop:
• What are participants able to do at the end of the workshop?
• At the end of the workshop the participant can…
• Content and behavior
What
should they learn? Preferred behavior Goal

11. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Formulate learning objectives of workshop:
• Which specific knowledge, skills and attitudes
should participants gather?
• Cut goals in smaller parts
• Make sure that the objectives help you design!!
What
should they learn? Elements of behavior Objectives

12. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Use verbs like:
Describe, name, explain, predict, demonstrate, analyze, compare,
combine, relate, justify, evaluate
Avoid verbs like:
Know, understand, see
What
should they learn? Elements of behavior Objectives

13. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Objectives and activities
organized in
Bloom’s taxonomy

14. Teaching Methods
Designing a Workshop
Decide on learning activities for workshop:
• Translate the objectives into activities
for participants
• Plan these activities
• Remember:
leave space for processing
How
Learning Activities
should they learn?

15. Assignment 3:
Elevator Pitch
Until 11.00
In expert group
Prepare an elevator pitch for your workshop
• Formulate learning need(s).
• Decide on main topics and formulate one main goal.
• Formulate learning objectives closely connected to this main
goal.
• Don’t forget to use yesterday’s work!
• Prepare a pitch for your workshop:
who are you going to teach what and why is it important for
them to learn this?

16. Elevator Pitches!!
Listen critically and write down feedback and questions

17. Coffee Break
Talk about the ideas you have heard

18. Assignment 4:
Design Workshop
Until 13.00 and 14.00 – 16.00
In expert group
Design your workshop
• Decide on methods and learning activities
• Make an overview: what are you going to do when?
• Which documents and materials do you need?
Prepare for try-out of (a part of) your workshop tomorrow!!

19. Looking Back and Looking Forward
Today
Write down:
What is the most important thing that I have learnt today?

20. Looking Back and Looking Forward
Tomorrow
Start 9.30 Final preparations for the workshops
11.00 Demonstrations of the workshops
Information Literacy
Visual Literacy
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
New media Literacies
News Literacy
16.00 Evaluation

21. Looking Back and Looking Forward
Tomorrow
The final assignment: Design Workshop
Turn in on paper:
• Full design of workshop: all steps of design and the context
• One part of the workshop fully prepared
• List of used sources
Try-out:
• One part of the workshop
• 30 minutes

22. Are we ready for tomorrow?
Now… drinks in room