Who are the participants in your group

Group Discussion Guidelines

• Everyone has wisdom.
• We need everyone’s wisdom for the wisest result.
• There are no wrong answers.
• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• Everyone will hear others and be heard.

List who is participating your group: (number of people, affiliations, etc. not names; e.g., 10 people – three mothers and two fathers of school-age children; five grandparents two grade 12 students):

Use the name/url option to identify your group (e.g. Tricom 1)

ACTIVITY 1 NOTES – Table Activity: Picture Activity on Past Learning

Facilitator direction to participants:
Take a moment to think about your past learning experiences. Click here to choose a picture that best reflects your thoughts and feelings towards your past learning experiences.

Use name/url to identify the image /photo selected e.g., Young child blowing bubbles and photo identifier letter.

Then comment on "Why you picked the image (photo) and what story does it remind you of."

ACTIVITY 2 NOTES – Table Activity: Picture Activity on Future Learning

Facilitator question to participants:
“If you were born today, what hopes, dreams and aspirations would you have for your learning in the next 20 years?” (Click here to pick an image to reflect your ideal learning experience?)

Use name/url to identify the image /photo selected and the identifier e.g., Rainbow and identifier.

Then make a comment on "What this photo represents for your hopes for future learning?"

ACTIVITY 3 NOTES – Table Activity: Conversation on Learning

Facilitator questions to participants:
. Read your comment to Activity 2 to others in our group.
· What words, phrases or images do you remember hearing or seeing?
· What did you hear that we had in common?

Use your group name for identification (name/url).


In a comment to this post record responses to the second question asked. "What did we have in common?"


Optional:
If you have time, compare your responses with those from other groups to see what you have in common. Use name/url to indicate which groups are compared and comment on what you have in common.

ACTIVITY 4 NOTES – Table Activity: “I-mail”

You have an opportunity to send an “I-mail” (“I” for inspiring) message to someone of your choice about what is really important to you about learning in 20 years. Address it as follows:

In a comment to this post finish this sentence you may add other sentences to complete your message "When I think of learning in 20 years, I hope...

Identify your comment by using name/url to address your comment to someone like To: Mom, my daughter, my son's teacher

Activity 5 - Table Activity: Qualities and Ablilities of an Albertan in the 21st Century

Facilitator questions and directions to participants:

What qualities and abilities will an Albertan need in 2029? Note: It is not important to distinguish between “qualities” and “abilities.”

Put your group number in the name/url and then list as many qualities and abilities as desired separated by commas.

Optional Group Activity: What did we see in common? What common themes do we see?

Look at the comments for your group and develop themes for the comments. Next use name/url to identify your theme for a new comment and copy all the comments for that theme to the new comment.

What were people most passionate about?

Optional: Make a comment for your group

What was the most important point or topic discussed?

Optional: Make a comment for your group

What was the most unexpected or surprising thing you heard?

Optional: Make a comment for your group

Additional comments

If you wish to include a summary of themes that emerged from the discussions, please include it here (optional):

Look at the themes for all comments and make comments.

Summary (Name or Description of Event)

2. Date: May 21st, 2009

3. Location: Spruce Grove Composite High School

4a. Name of Organizer: Carole Ibsen
4b. Organizer Contact Information: (780)-962-8539; cibsen1@gmail.com

5. Conversation participants: 7 people - 1 grade 11 student, 1 grade 12 student, 1 first year post secondary student, 1 parent of grade 10 student, 2 parents of grade 11 student, 1 retired school board administrator

6. Summary of Conversation: (optional)

What were people most passionate about?


What was the most important point or topic discussed?


What was the most unexpected or surprising thing you heard?

Additional comments (if you wish to include a summary of themes that emerged from the discussions, please include it here (optional):