Chapter 17 - SUL

Chapter 17: Facilitating with Finesse

Discussion Questions

• How do you balance the art of facilitation? How do you guide them without directing them too much?

• Have you ever had to abandon a lesson because the technology wouldn’t cooperate? Explain. What would you do differently?

• What are your favorite strategies for facilitation? 

• In what ways could you make use of the student tech experts in your classroom?

• How do you give feedback on digital assignments? Where do you see room for improvement?

• How do you assess digital work? What is something you would like to change or improve in this process?

• How do you monitor progress on long-term projects?

Chapter 17 Actions

• Try one of the facilitation strategies from this chapter in your next lesson.

• Create a tech expert role or team for your classroom or school to both empower students and help you focus on facilitation. (Check out the Chrome Squad resources below for ideas.) Create a rubric for a digital assignment that is designed to assess the content or skills for that particular unit or lesson. Try to avoid adding things like the number of slides required.

• Try the TAG strategy for peer-to-peer feedback:

  • • T – Tell the creator something you like.

    • A – Ask the creator a question about their work.

    • G – Give the creator a suggestion for improvement.

Additional Resources

• Chrome Squad: Student Tech Teams to Support 1-1 Schools

• Student Chrome Squad (Part 1): Great Leadership Is Key for 1:1 – blog post from Shake Up Learning

• Student Chrome Squad (Part 2): Building the Team – blog post from Shake Up Learning

• Build Your Own Student Tech Team!—Student Chrome Squad (Part 3) – blog post from Shake Up Learning

• Watch this video to learn more about how the Yes, and… protocol works.