Find and make meaningful a “nugget.”
The Open Faculty Patchbook is a collection of lived experiences, “AHA!” moments & lots of helpful nuggets about teaching and learning. It’s been crafted like an old fashioned community quilt (each person contributes a square to make a beautiful large quilt), but has been given a 21st century makeover and is a compilation of insightful stories from postsecondary educators. One of the main goals of this activity is to get you to read carefully and respond imaginatively. Your work with “nuggets” should be both fun and in earnest. It should demonstrate your own deep engagement and stimulate deep engagement for your reader as well.
To do:
- Review The Faculty Patchbook, a robust collection of faculty authored overviews of specific pedagogical skills. Each entry is referred to as a “patch.”
- Select one patch that resonates with you.
- Select a passage from the patch that grabs you in some way and prepare to make that passage as meaningful as possible.
(It could be a passage that puzzles you, or intrigues you, or resonates strongly with you. It could be a passage you agree with, or one you disagree with. The idea here is that the passage evokes some kind of response in you, one that makes you want to work with the passage to make it just as meaningful as possible. A good length for your nugget is about a paragraph or so. Too much, and it becomes unwieldy. Too little, and you don’t have enough to work with.)
- How do you make something as meaningful as possible? Well, use your imagination! You’ll probably start by copying and pasting the nugget into a doc. Or if you’re feeling very multimedia inclined, record yourself reading the nugget aloud and share your response as an audio file. From there, consider hyperlinks, illustrations, video clips, animated gifs, screenshots, whatever. Make the experience as rich and interesting as you can.
- After you make your submission, save the web address to your response (found in the green confirmation box) so you can use it later for your badge submission form.
This activity is part of the Metacognition section of the Teacher for Learning Module. It was borrowed from the course syllabus for Thought Vectors in Concept Space, designed by Dr. Gardner Campbell for an undergraduate research and writing course at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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221 Responses for this Activity
- PATCH ONE: INTERPRETING STUDENT WORK
by Phillip McGregor (@PMcGregor)
Taken from PATCH ONE: INTERPRETING STUDENT WORK “One important theme that emerges from discussion is always the goal of the labs themselves. What do we want students to learn? What are the transferable skills that we want students to take away?” This section got me thinking, what did I learn and take away from all more… »
- Thought vectors and nuggets – Patch 21
by Sam Gennidakis (@SGennidakis)
Patch #21: Just listen: Empathy and Science Pedagogy. Chuck Pearson, Tusculum College, Tennessee (July 20, 2017) (https://openfacultypatchbook.org/classroom-skill/patch-twentyone-just-listen/ ) Passage: “The goal is not for the student to mimic your own explanation; the goal is for the student to arrive at their own accurate explanation. That’s not something that happens without intention. That’s something you can more… »
- Patch 29 – Small Win Parties
by anh lam (@anhlam)
From Patch 29 MY 25¢ Worth for instructional designers: “Small win parties – okay maybe a party for one, but it’s important to do a quiet victory dance every time one of your ideas comes to fruition, especially if you had to go to the mat for it.” We all juggle multiple projects on a more… »
- Thought Vectors and Nugget
by Lucas Prestes (@Lucas Plautz Prestes)
My nugget references an excerpt from “Patch thirty two – Is everyone an instructional designer?”. See the original text here: https://openfacultypatchbook.org/instructional-design/patch-thirty-two-is-everyone-an-instructional-designer/ Audio Transcription Reflecting on change, choice and innovation leads us to consider the complexity inherent in these processes. Change is a manifestation of freedom of choice, an act of agency that can trigger transformations more… »
- PATCH 3 – SHEETS AIN’T CHEATS
by winton cape (@winton)
That is the patch I looked at. I fully agree with the author completely. With the emergence of AI, I believe that this spells the death of memorization. It is kinda what the calculator did to the multiplication tables that I route learned and the age of 9. That is the patch I looked at. more… »
- Thought vectors and nuggets
by Afshan Jabeen (@ajabeen)
This is in response to patch one–Interpreting student work.
- Though Vector and Nugget
by Peter Sheedy (@PeterS)
This is in reaction to the nugget: Patch 21: Just Listen “The goal is not for the student to mimic your own explanation; the goal is for the student to arrive at their own accurate explanation.”
- Thought Vectors and Nuggets
by Rena Gandham (@rgandham)
Patch Twenty-One: Just Listen “Listening to students means not only recognizing when they do or don’t understand, but recognizing when an explanation or a method isn’t working and you might just need to start over, or recognizing when a more fundamental idea isn’t understood and you need to backtrack. If it’s necessary, do it. Blow more… »
- In Sync
by Ryan Walmsley (@rwalmsley)
Audio recorded and excerpted from Patch Five: In Sync – Thoughts on Sync Video Conversations https://openfacultypatchbook.org/professional-learning/patch-five-in-sync-thoughts-on-sync-video-conversations/
- Metaphor – Carolyn Nesbitt-Larking
by Carolyn Nesbitt-Larking (@Carolyn)
As an avid gardener, it was easy for me to come up with this metaphor. You may have green fingers, or you may have never gardened in your life. Whatever your experience, you can keep learning through gardening. Gardening is a constant voyage of discovery. Gardeners will tell you – there is no such thing more… »
2 Resources for this Activity
- Find your Ikigai
shared by Lisa Macdonald (@Lisa)
Nugget: “Ikigai is the sweet spot where your passion meets your mission, your vocation, and your profession. It’s the place where you find joy, fulfillment, and a deep sense of purpose. Discovering your Ikigai is like uncovering the treasure map to a life of meaning and contentment.”
- What’s a Nugget? (Thought Vectors in Concept Space Syllabus)
shared by Ontario Extend (@ontario-extend)
See how this open networked course used the idea of a “nugget” as a strategy for concept understanding, and how it was used in this undergraduate research course at Virginia Commonwealth University
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