1. Updates & News Caitlin Josephine Beyer!

2. Changes from you: Assignment #2 Article discussion groups: process, roles, outputs Glossary of terms & other sense-making tools Including T402 Alumni Today’s foci: Exploring tensions of knowing Looking at language & roles

3. Group learning: Processes & Paradoxes Discussion of Readings What are 3-4 key ideas? (test prototypes) What are 2-3 connections and differences (to articles, your experiences)? Develop 1-2 metaphors or images that finish the sentence, “The ideas in this article are like ______ because ______”

4. Fundamental Tensions Knowing Trusting Belonging Leading create shared certainty and maintain doubt. demonstrate competencies and disclose vulnerabilities. create a collective identity and maintain individuality. influence through fluid and fixed power.

5. The race 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest Adventure Race Multi-disciplinary, expert teams Unknown terrain, multiple routes Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion, navigational errors, injury 75-95 teams each year 55% of teams do not finish Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs $250,000 purse

6. Map of Race Day 1-2 Day 4-5 2004 Race overview

7. Tensions of Knowing

8. 50% 70%Conditional Claims Assertive Claims Team Performance High Low 30% How do claims of knowing vary across teams?

9. Dismiss Reject, ignore or trivialize ideas by casting them as irrelevant or idiotic. Clarify Pose authentic questions to make unclear points clearer, reveal assumptions and/or unearth goals. Assert State knowledge as truths, the ways things are, realities and/or as the “only way”. Offer Share knowledge as a perspective that is provisional, revisable, and conditional. Close Share ideas but do not open them for discussion. When others question them, you become frustrated, defensive, sarcastic or angry. Test Share ideas in a way that welcomes discussion, input, reactions and feedback to test ideas. Scatter Present ideas without relating them to previous perspectives or the topic of conversation. Thread Cite previous ideas, compare them, and connect what others say. Regressive (L-)Progressive (L+) Languages in Learning Groups

10. Tension of Knowing

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12. Fundamental Tensions Knowing Trusting Belonging Leading create shared certainty and maintain doubt. demonstrate competencies and disclose vulnerabilities. create a collective identity and maintain individuality. influence through fluid and fixed power.

13. Hanging questions for discussion... Sol – discussion on glossary Betsy – brainstorming roup learning session Dan – mind mapping as a tool Jessie – logic behind class videos....

15. For next week... - Assignment #3 due Tues - Article summaries up by Tues -Readings for next time (Barnes & Todd, Black & Davern, Donnellon) - Daniel will be joining via video conference