Cultivating a Listening Practice | Cultivating Learning
Description:
Join Orlando Serrano of the National Museum of American History to think about how to practice generous and critical listening to engage your students in challenging conversations. Orlando shares techniques practiced, revised, and still in process during his time as a classroom teacher and across various programs and partnerships developed in his role as Head of PreK-12 Learning at NMAH. He highlights resources to rehearse generous and critical listening, including Becoming US. You’ll leave with techniques and strategies to cultivate a listening practice with students needed for challenging conversations. Session Collection in the Learning Lab: Cultivating a Listening Practice: https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/cultivating-a-listening-practice-cultivating-learning/N5Z42fJpyjWdLmBl 00:00 Introduction 05:12 Opening Question: How can close listening foster connection between our peers and with our community? 08:53 Session Objectives and Agenda 10:49 First Activity: Listening Closely 22:10 Invitation: Tell Me a Story 26:10 Oral History and Critical Listening: StoryCorpsU 35:44 A Right to the City: Hear - Think - Wonder 44:42 Oral History and Critical Listening in Your Community 47:31 Q&A / Discussion 58:52 Conclusion This interactive webinar, originally recorded on Zoom, is part of “Cultivating Learning,” a professional development webinar series focusing on techniques to use digital museum resources for learning. Check out “Cultivating Learning” and other Smithsonian Learning Lab webinars: https://learninglab.si.edu/about/events Thumbnail Image YouTube thumbnail for webinar that reads “Cultivating Learning: Cultivating a Listening Practice,” overlaid on a photograph of Braceros talking, smoking, listening to the radio, and eating strawberries in a living quarter at a camp in California. Photographer: Leonard Nadel, 1956.
Video Duration:
59 min 16 sec
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