CCLT8: Stories of Collaborative, Sustainable, and Transformative Learner Development
Date/Time: December 22, 2024 (12:00-17:00)
Location: Otsuma Women’s University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Face to Face: 3 rounds of concurrent Poster Presentations (40 min with 10 minute Reflection)
Cost: Students (free), Teachers: JALT members ¥2,000 / Non-JALT members ¥3,000
Submit your Proposals here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdckA5sHUmBnzRFNHHulepdU7HB9eQZsOW7sl4pjTdg0x2iZQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Creating Community: Learning Together 8 (CCLT8) is an informal, supportive conference, taking place on Sunday, December 22, from 12:00-17:00 at Otsuma Women’s University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
Students and teachers are invited to share their experiences, ideas, perspectives, and puzzles, related to the theme “Stories of Collaborative, Sustainable, and Transformative Learner Development.”
Collaborative:
- involving learners collaborating with each other, with their teachers, or with the groups communities, and networks outside the classroom
Sustainable:
- being sustained over the academic year(s), or beyond
Transformative:
- involving learners or teachers developing new understandings, ideas, perspectives, or ways of learning/teaching
To involve both learners and teachers in exploring these aspects of learner development, we aim to keep presentations informal and interactive, so digital displays/poster presentations will be the main format of the day.
Multiple digital displays/posters sessions will take place at the same time, in three rounds of 40 minutes, with spaces for discussion and reflection at different points.
For presenters unable to attend the face to face event, presentation materials e.g. (video, poster, audio recording, slideshow) will be hosted online in the shared conference space for free. Visitors to the online conference space will be encouraged to watch your videos and leave comments up to a month after the conference.
All presenters will be able to submit a reflection to the Spring Issue of Learning Learning that will be published in April 2025. For examples of writing see here.
Possible questions to explore:
- What stories of learner development would you and/or your learners like to share?
- How have you encouraged collaborative, sustainable, or transformative education in your classroom?
- Would you share a learning experience that has had a lasting impact on your personal or professional growth in relation to your studies, teaching or research?
- What factors are important when considering collaborative learner development?
- What are the key aspects that make a learning experience either sustainable and/or transformative?
- What are some barriers to achieving truly collaborative and/or transformative learning, and how can they be overcome?
Information needed to submit a proposal:
- Presenter Information: Name(s), affiliation(s) (academic institution or workplace), and email address of primary contact
- Title: No more than 75 characters (40 characters for Japanese)
- Format: Face-to-face poster presentation or On-demand
- Presentation Summary:
- For students: 75 words or 150 Japanese characters
- For teachers 150-250 words or 300-500 Japanese characters
- Keywords: Please list 2-4 keywords to classify your presentation.
- NOTES: Please indicate any special requests you have for your presentation.
It’ll be great to see you there!
If you or your students are interested, please submit a proposal by following this link:
James Underwood & Ken Ikeda
(CCLT8 co-organizers)