Updates & News Reflections on Summaries Preview of Mid-term paper Today’s focus:

1. Updates & News • Reflections on Summaries • Preview of Mid-term paper • Today’s focus: • Group performance & learning

2. What (or when) is group learning? • Discussion of Readings… • What are 3-4 key ideas? • What are 2-3 connections and differences?

3. Group learning & performance Group learning is both a outcome (new knowledge/skills) and an activity (how knowledge/skills are developed). Groups can perform effectively but not necessarily learn

4. Three ways groups learn and perform Taken from Wilson, D. (forthcoming). Three phases of learning: Learning in, from, and for action. Development and Learning in Organizations

5. Practice: Close Observation What do you notice? What do you wonder? Is this group learning? Why?

7. Practice: Close Observation What do you notice? What do you wonder? Is this group learning? Why?

8. Hanging questions for discussion. . . • -Sue: How to find a group for mid-term? • Reed: Double loop learning/transformative learning and social change • Taylor: Is it viable to always double loop learning? • Betsy: How to observe a group for mid-term, how to collect data? • Peter: Roles in groups

9. For next week. . . • Assignment #2 due Tues • Article summaries due Tues • Readings for next time (Webb & Palincsar, Smith & Berg) • . . . and

10. Field Trip! • Bring walking shoes & attire for a field trip next week. Bring a bagged lunch, too, if you want. • We need “observers” from each group • If you will be absent email/call Daniel