OCDSBXL Podcast (S2E11) - Part 2 - The Science of Flight (w Carolyn Johnston) - A Learning Adventure to the Moon and Back Again

What if the test of our belief in the capacity of our students involved a true leap of faith?

What if our belief involved challenging our assumptions about baselines; challenged our thinking about "learning loss" by taking one giant leap, I mean a giant leap: like in the footsteps of a space program…?

What if we began in space and worked our way down from there?

In this episode of the XL Podcast, part two in our series of conversations with Carolyn Johnston, we pick up, maybe lift off, from where we concluded in episode 10: Carolyn and her class are “pivoting the learning journey” in mid-flight - the learning is “fresh and students are ready for it” and so Carolyn decides in the middle of a connection with the aerospace industry about space that a seamless transition to The Science of Flight should follow.

Adventures are a funny thing: they are dynamic, they are messy, there is planning, but it is a planning centred in possibility rather than predetermining each step of the adventure.  In short, adventures are a longer path to a far more profound depth of learning, because destinations are less the concern than the stops along the way: even when the destination is space itself. 

Stager, Gary (2008): Learning Adventures: A new approach for transforming real and virtual classroom environments

Stager, Gary (2020): Revisiting Learning Adventures in the Time of COVID-19

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