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What is Learning Conversation Starter

Cards to spark conversations about what learning looks like.

DESCRIPTION

Cards to spark conversations about what learning looks like. 

These images provide an opportunity for a group to reflect on and share what they feel best represents learning. This activity can help professionals recognize that learning takes many forms and occurs in different settings across a person’s lifetime.

This icebreaker-style activity is intended to help professionals articulate what learning looks like and where and when it takes place. This can help surface different understandings and goals that inform how professionals approach their engagement and education work


Choose a card and take turns sharing what learning looks like to you.
 

  • 62 photo cards (Information is provided for printing your own cards in various sizes.)
  • Group size: Activity is ideal for a group of 8-10 people per deck of cards, but can be used with as few as 2 people.

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  • Hands holding up a What is Learning photo card showing toddler with paint
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  • What is Learning conversation starter photo card collage
  • Hands holding up a What is Learning photo card showing toddler with paint
  • What is learning photo cards spread out on a table with people's hands sorting through them
  • What is Learning deck of cards spread on table
  • What is Learning deck of cards held in hand

DESCRIPTION

Cards to spark conversations about what learning looks like. 

These images provide an opportunity for a group to reflect on and share what they feel best represents learning. This activity can help professionals recognize that learning takes many forms and occurs in different settings across a person’s lifetime.

This icebreaker-style activity is intended to help professionals articulate what learning looks like and where and when it takes place. This can help surface different understandings and goals that inform how professionals approach their engagement and education work


Choose a card and take turns sharing what learning looks like to you.
 

  • 62 photo cards (Information is provided for printing your own cards in various sizes.)
  • Group size: Activity is ideal for a group of 8-10 people per deck of cards, but can be used with as few as 2 people.

JUMP TO BROWSE RELATED RESOURCES

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2024
OWNING INSTITUTION

Copyright 2024, Arizona State University. 

 

This activity was inspired by an exercise developed by Connie Schroeder, PhD, at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

The images used in this activity are all sourced from Unsplash. 

FUNDING

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number 80NSSC21M0007. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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