Communicate Knowledge

For the competency “Communicate Knowledge,” I have selected three documents as artifacts to represent my ability to format, design, adapt, and assess the communication of content. These papers are “Personal Philosophy on Multicultural Education,” “Virtual Reality Experience on Unconscious Bias,” and the “Addressing Inequities in the Workplace Design Document.” 

The “Personal Philosophy on Multicultural Education” paper demonstrates my ability to communicate effectively in oral and written formats. During the development of this paper, I explored recent controversies and trends in multicultural thought in education. After deep reflection and understanding of how both impact my current role, I articulated a teaching philosophy that represents my view. The articulation of my philosophy was structured into three goals which were 1) design and teach with students [learners] first, 2) always have a growth mindset, and 3) embrace the differences as lifelong learning.

The “Virtual Reality Experience on Unconscious Bias” demonstrates my ability to effectively communicate content from discipline through the design and delivery of effective teaching/learning activities. During this project, I was able to explore, create, and evaluate a virtual reality experience while developing content in a unique way that interacts with the learner. The steps in this process were identifying a virtual reality tool or platform to design my experience, completing a learner analysis, and creating the virtual reality experience using descriptions, images, and audio. In addition, an evaluation was designed to test its effectiveness using a volunteer who tested the virtual reality experience. 
The “Addressing Inequities in the Workplace Design Document” demonstrates both my ability to adapt instruction and support services to the needs of diverse learners and to appropriately assess learning outcomes. This paper provided me the opportunity to develop a formal instructional workshop utilizing each step of the Dick & Carey Model. The skill applied in this paper was writing a formal document as if it were instructions to a designer. A complete learner analysis was conducted to understand the learner's preferences and context. The structured instructional design process also guided me to incorporate steps to assess the learning impact with an evaluation plan. 

As a former communication consultant, I began with a foundation of communication principles and skills. This foundation gave me the additional flexibility to spend time on the instructional design aspect of my work. These three artifacts gave me unique perspectives personally, professionally, and technically on how communication can be leveraged for learning and development. 
Finally, when reflecting on each of my papers, communication is essential to understanding, and learning is directly correlated to understanding. As a learning professional, communicating knowledge is a principle in my work as it is the mechanism to drive understanding of content. While each of these artifact experiences provided a unique view into communicating knowledge, I have no doubt there are other potential ways that I have not explored yet, such as communicating knowledge for the hearing impaired and non-English learners.

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Reference: 

Dick, W., Carey, L., & Carey, J. (2015). The Systematic Design of Instruction (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.