February 24th 2025 Peeragogy Monday Meetup Project Action Review (PAR)

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Hi, Peeragogues!

Here is the Project Action Review (PAR) from the Monday Meetup about six days ago. The rough draft of this PAR was taken on our Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/peeragogy/timeslider#7311

The attendees were: Cris (C), Mary (M), Joe (J), and Charlie D (CD).

If you are available, please join us tomorrow 3/3/2025 at

• 9 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
• 2 PM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC/GMT)

We'll be chatting on Jitsi

https://meet.jit.si/peeragogy

== 1. Review the intention: what do we expect to learn or make together? ==

• Joe (J): Came here expecting to discuss Charlie's comic book paper
• Charlie D (CD): I came expecting to share an update about our comic book pattern paper for PLoP 2024 conference proceedings

https://plopcon.org/plop2024/submissions/

• Cris (C): Came with a question about the peeragogy handbook and expecting to be more active in conversation
• Mary (M): Prepared to talk about papers in progress

== 2. Establish what is happening: what and how are we learning? ==

• C: was more active in the conversation today!
• CD: planning to get final versions of papers submitted tonight
• C: Some story telling about how we learn

== 3. What are some different perspectives on what’s happening? ==

• J: Talking about a variety of topics we became very creative (wikipedia, language, music)
• When you agree with virtual avatar, character it's like a peer

== 4. What did we learn or change? ==

• CD: Consequences of creating an environment that has a "culture of mistakes" for learning; if mistakes are not OK, people learn differently and are less willing to take risks than in other environments.
• J: How much freedom do people want/need for learning?  Some will want more structure, some will want more freedom.  Maybe also for topics! Can happen in piano lessons
• C: it's not making mistake is the problem ... it's worry about how the mistake will be perceived
• J:"No you are WRONG!" => more afraid.  Or "Oh, how interesting that you have discovered a new way to do this!"
• C: based on a person's past experiences with making mistakes while learning indicates their willingness to make future mistakes
• J: culture of where learning occurred, some math courses encourage questions, others have students silently listen
• J: Being lost when listening is a loss of control ... the need to be in control creates tension!
• J: If you were a child, you wouldn't understand any of this, but you would grow and start understanding
• M: Also sometimes people try to intentionally have you not understand
• C: Enforced perspective that this is a very supportive group :)

== 5. What else should we change going forward? ==

• Explore more the idea Joe suggested about characters in a story being peers, especially considering their perspective

https://anitaloughrey.blog/2019/06/07/point-of-view/

• Update Wikibook edition of Handbook to include more recent content from 3rd Edition on the website

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Peeragogy_Handbook

https://peeragogy.org/

• J: Feels more confident going into his open research handbook session, giving people more of a chance to talk

https://orbook.github.io/

• C: Incorporate Cris' suggestion of how cooperative games are another way to get everyone involved in a class into the comic book PLoP paper ... things that put the action in the person watching the class is better ... moves them from passive to active 

- Charlie