The Learner Experience: Challenges and Opportunities Section Placement

[sstevens2]

I'm wondering if the "The Learner Experience: Challenges and Opportunities" section is sort of the wrap-up/debrief/summary from activity 1? Should it go at the end of the first episode then?

Maybe this is to avoid taking a break mid episode? It seems like it would go well as a summary of the likely answers to activity 1.

[karenword]

Not exactly -- Activity 1 is supposed to be more focused on technical challenges, e.g. noisy chat, not knowing how or where to communicate, confusing instructions, missing things when window switching, chaotic handraising/missed hands, Instructors & helpers missing communications. Then part two shifts over to really think through the learner experience more broadly (humans at home!) and then leads into practicing introductions. It's decidedly imperfect, but that's the idea behind the flow.

I think Activity 1 could work better with specific problem prompts and a solutions-oriented brainstorm rather than having them generate the problems and solutions.

[sstevens2]

Ooo! I like the idea of giving specific problems or a set of problems they can choose from and then having them talk about solutions.

[sstevens2]

Possible technical issues: w/o instructor backchannel

• your zoom room dies
• lots of questions and comments going on in chat so no one can find anything
• helpers don't knows who is helping who
• learners don't know who the helpers are
• learners don't know how to get help
• questioning coming in through unexpected channels (ie etherpad when you are using zoom)
• people going to breakout rooms and not knowing how to ask questions or what to do
• you get disconnected from the room (maybe this is something that comes up later)