Day 2

Today kind of unimpressed with the breath of the depth and breadth the presentations today was not helpful to follow up maybe with the researcher Steven Chu could help create some language around some of the tools that we can bounce back to Sola taters and the start of practice illustrators but generally this is really targeted at entry level of staff it might be worth knowing if learning services used metacognition or if they focus on auditory kinesthetic and visual learning styles I'd assume is metacognition but I am Not sure we could also take a look at exam wrappers for a bounceback tool but point to the session was generally that everyone learns differently and the structure of visual auditory kinesthetic or Gardner's multiple intelligences to work independently because people learn different in different contexts and that needs to change over time student Similar nurse needs to plan monitor and evaluate essentially at PDSA or experiential learning cycle for their learning not super interesting to text message

Two presentations on text messages show me that we are at the cutting edge of this one with our use of SMS although the US probably within a year is going to catch up which means Canada maybe a year after the book not that I was given will be an interesting read phrases like you are the kind of student who... As ways of starting a text message or commit to or plan to can be helpful but we need to be careful that we are describing an ideal student let me send that information out two new students baby may the research done by Arkansas Central Arkansas and Cal Poly shows that students receive information about the ideal student are more likely to be deflated and disempowered by that information if they are not the ideal student the students who received an inspirational quotes are more likely to feel optimistic and work harder all the other one interesting. They applied was using SMS to address for long in that can be sort of cool great session by BYU and single vine on text messages BYU someone similar to text a pretty healthy percentage of their incoming you student population during the summer before the fall semester arrival they use something similar to Trumpia and are having huge success with engagement so it'll be really interesting to see what they think the main difference that they highlighted between what they doing what we do is that they send a text within 3 weeks of a student being admitted to university so they are catching the student right away and then getting significant engagement and they have their peer mentor the equivalent of our online group leaders running this interaction participents didn't really notice about you that the text messages were simple convenient and timely which is important to keep in mind when sending them they are Anna ratio 157 new students to 1 mentor during the summer with wheedle down his students had some experience of summer mount all the BYU compare themselves to Harvard in terms of the complete lack of summer m*** that they deal with

Finally two sessions one on global citizen project and one on the importance of talking about race with first year student wolf Jerry and gazing Important sessions that I'll have to refer to my written notes on University of South Florida for global citizen project in Boston University for first-year students and race essentially they put language to some of the competencies that we are going to need to talk about it's it hang on I need to think more about how I want to talk about what I learned in this essentially global citizen projects very much plays off at the keynote speaker from last night to say how are Students prepared and or willing to be introduced to the competency is there going to be needing to face the challenges of the 21st century in a way that is not as employees and workers but is as citizens of the world needs to be able to work with different intersections of identity in order to address the challenges that they will face and that it's important for to be communicated is a way of living and not skills they need for University of the boat who they are and what they're going to do with their lives so things like why would this be important to them students to say that okay so the race presentation just a normal job I Boston University I have the card for the presenter that I like quite a bit I think what they talked about is him what they talked about was great except that it was very established in there common first year classes or is it through the first class that although it was an f.y.i 103 class for like freshmen through seniors were taking the class what sounded really interesting is the common ground training did they provided to pierce volunteer staff maybe even professors that did Offer quote unquote diversity training not it would really for intercultural competence he's asking really important questions I like subtracting you students to ask questions every question these questions every seminar overexposure throughout their undergraduate degree could be framed in terms of who is this person instructor what do they want me to know why did they want me to know it what are they telling me at what kind of world do I want to live in and in the importance of us understanding that at least by the American research the students are talking about race but they're talking about it with their friends of the same race and they notice when we are not ready or not participating in the conversation so the conversation is happening the risk management is fairly minimal it's going to be messy so biggest some examples of activities around common ground next week old blind spots and I will probably follow up with roll over email

so lots of good stuff and global competencies and raise some things to think about with text message interaction but nothing super important and a couple good contacts