Increase Student Ownership with Google Suite

Learn to foster student ownership of learning with digital tools that can provide immediate feedback, opportunities for collaboration, student choice and more. G Suite tools make creating engaging learning opportunities easy for teachers and fun for students.

Learning Objectives:

  • Get Familiar with Google Suite

  • Understand Permissions

  • Connect the 4C's of 21st Century Learning with Google Suite

  • Identify Ways to Increase Student Ownership of Learning

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Google Classroom

1. Open an incognito window in a browser

2. Join Our Google Classroom: erwuohc

3. Google Classroom Organization

Home - Stream - Classwork - People - Topics

4. Go to Classwork and look at Topics

5. Select Digital Breakouts from the Topics

6. Open Party With the Principal Breakout

Google Tools Support Critical Thinking

Digital Breakout

Google suite provides all the tools needed to create break-out learning activities that students love. By combining Google Forms, Docs, Slides, and Sites, teachers can create unique and engaging activities that students will naturally help students develop critical thinking skills, collaborate with peers, and learn to persevere through productive struggle.

Experience a Digital Breakout here. Party At The Principal's House


Breakout learning supports the Critical Thinking element of 21st Century Learning.

Reflection:

  1. Click on the Topic Ownership with G Suite.

  2. Open the assignment: Reflection How do Digital Breakouts Support 4Cs

  3. Complete the assignment and turn in.

Interested in more digital breakouts? Check out this Collection of Digital Breakouts

What Teachers are saying about Digital Breakouts

"Thanks for making this resource for us, my kids loved it?"

~A.Woodard, 3rd grade Teacher @ NSES

"Students who often give up worked on this the entire class period."

~S. Vandiver, 5th grade teacher @ RGES

"My students found the other breakouts and do them during indoor recess!"

~K. Mosley, 3rd Grade teacher @ WCES

Understanding Permissions in Google Suite

One of the most powerful elements in the Google Suite is the ability to share items with different levels of permission. Permission options include view only, comment, and edit. Sharing options include links, email, Google Classroom or embed on a web page.

Shared items of a sensitive nature can be restricted to colleagues in the same organization. Project items can be shared easily with the same group of people by creating a Google Team.

Permission Options in Google

  • Edit

  • Comment

  • View Only

Activity

  1. Go to Google Drive

  2. Click New and notice all the choices

  3. Create a new document

  4. Type a paragraph with many grammar errors

Sharing features in Google make communication & collaboration with peers easy.

Student Ownership Through Peer Editing

  1. Click Share

  2. Enter the email address from the card of your partner

  3. Select Can Comment

  4. Find the shared document in Shared area of Google Drive

  5. Open and add comments to support corrections

Make assignments by groups of students to facilitate collaboration.

Create editing partners who can leave comments on each other's Google work.

Develop a sense of community by creating a shared drive for projects.

Promote student communication and collaboration using options in Google classroom for making assignments by group, in documents by using sharing permission options, and by creating shared drives for larger projects.

Naturally Develop Creativity with Google

Empowering students to be creative is easy in Google Suite. Allowing students to choose how they show mastery is the next step in developing ownership. Google Classroom offers teachers the ability to create an assignment that allows students to select which tool they will use to complete assignments. Critical in making assignments of this nature is a well developed rubric that is aligned to standards and has clear explanations of expectations.

Google Classroom allows students to choose their own product for mastery demonstration.

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Create assignments that allow students to choose their product.

What students see when assignments allow them a choice.

Use Google Sites as a digital portfolio of student work.

Google Forms

  1. Create New Google Form (from Waffle this time)

  2. Name it

  3. Add elements

  4. Validation

  5. Preview

Google Sites Takes the 4Cs to a New Level

Google sites provides the ultimate way for teachers and students to develop the 4Cs. The user friendly format make creating a website easy so teachers save classroom instruction time for what really matters. Students can work with partners, teams, or on their own. Google sites is a create way to curate resources, report findings, deliver presentations, and maintain a current digital portfolio.

Google Sites

  1. Create New Google Site (Waffle)

  2. Name the Site

  3. Add Pages

  4. Nest the Pages

  5. Add Elements and Resize

  6. Embed Google Form on page


Note: Google Sites has been updated. You may see an option to view the newer or older version depending on your browser and Google Tennant.

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity

Critical Thinking

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