Difference between revisions of "November 5 2011"

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Topics Discussed: (We can extract and develop ideas from these minutes)

Questions for Allen this coming Wednesday: 11/9/11

• How can we make CIRAL happen?
• What has already been done? (lesson plans, etc.)
• What can we improve on?
• What sort of constraints that could inhibit CIRAL have we overlooked, and what can we do to prepare for these obstacles?
• Questions on the wiki are mostly still valid as well.

Tasks to complete for 11/911

• Flush out Course Projects
• Provide feedback for Micheal's outline/powerpoint on Google Groups
• Generate questions for Allen

CIRAL 'citizen training' as an introductory research topic

• Wiki training/interaction/familiarity
• Editing shared documents
• Introducing students to new perspectives and roles
• Building leadership skills during meetings
  • Group reflection of simulations/experiments
  • Group Dynamics
  • Interdisciplinary studies
• Implementing a process prior to projects to develop each others ideas and get people thinking as a group.
• Embracing CIRAL's openness to all disciplines at Evergreen

Recursive pilot program for the Core Model and for community development

• Group investigation of the public
• Survey local organizations
• Identify mutually beneficial possibilities that could catalyze civic intelligence
• Establish a covenant to set ground rules
• Start by engaging the Evergreen community
• Frame it as an exploratory project
• Build knowledge base and skill sets
• Learn by doing; practice then theory; action then documentation; dive into water then assess success.
• But first fill hole in knowledge with Core Class skill-building and Civic Training; fieldwork vs. think-tank.

Where to go next?

• Practice then theorize; group games followed by meta-cognition seminars
• Incorporate the scientific method aspect of civic intelligence
  • Observe
  • Theorize
  • Test
  • Analyze
    • Documenting progress/journal entries on the wiki
    • Stream of questions/ideas for group discussion of journal entries
    • Journal requirements on developing an understanding of civic intelligence
    • More things mandatory vs. self motivation
    • Active rebellion as a valuable role
    • Learning is the reward
    • Free-writing exercises

Keeping up on the wiki

• Projects could be more flushed out
  • Identify scale, scope, and developments (elaborate further)
  • Everyone add to the 5 course projects
• Produce a model for CIRAL during talk with Allen

Community Building

• Gathering info and sharing/interacting
• Apply that knowledge-base to a project
• Refer incoming CIRAL students who are new to independent projects to the Academic Advising Center

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Consider the implications of projects developing into long-term plans; CIRAL's organizational development and function
• Description Model Handout; map CIRAL onto the 'see me' diagram/framework
• Add in-class thoughts to personal profiles
• Implementation portion is underdeveloped
• Work with tangible components for hypothetical models
• Everyone should contribute to the asset map
• Investigate Jeremiah's PDF links
  • Potential for Wikipedia-type book-form extraction

Additional Notes/Contributions

• Consensus reached: 8crd evening/weekend program with the possibility of an additional 4crd course
  • Potential for faculty signature on the 4crd
  • We can still add details to 16crd archetypes
• Erika's student organization lists are open to revisions
  • She has posted an outline to apply for non-profit partnerships
• Jeremiah suggested that we outline activities for the class for the 1st two weeks
  • Team building/trust building exercises- table arrangement; meta-cognition; planning.
  • Group Games- embracing games as a safe environment to learn from mistakes
  • Rotate group facilitators
• Brandon will post relevant TedTalk links
• Brandon could debrief us about the workshop he attended with Ellen from CCBLA
  • What are the skill sets for working around differences between multiple organizations that wish to collaborate/form networks?
  • What is the criteria for students to be eligible to work with various organizations?
  • Ideas for an organization that bridges the gap between the academic community and the local community?
• Galen suggested a 'mirror institution' at Evergreen where students instruct the public for free.
• Brian claims that his input is usually satirical