Discussion and Badges - Module 2

Reflection: What challenges exist as students work collaboratively as opposed to working individually?

Students working collaboratively and co-constructing knowledge is a powerful learning experience. What scaffolds can the teacher put in place to support all students as they collaborate?

Ideas for contributing your reflection:

• • Share a post on your personal blog with your response and link to it in one of the discussion spaces so others can comment

  • If you're feeling adventurous and you have a webcam, record a video response and share it in the discussion spaces for comment

Planning: Create and share a lesson that includes elements of online collaborative inquiry.

After you have read and synthesized the materials from Module Two, you should have a good handle on what it means for students in your classroom to participate in online spaces. This is equal parts collaboration, Connected Learning, motivation, and other pieces. This will also bring up questions about identity, privacy, and security of your students online. 

You should also consider the three models that we've discussed up to this point:

• • UbD looks at planning with the end goal in mind. This should help you as you develop your Internet Inquiry Unit Plan.

  • SAMR talks about extending teaching and learning through the use of tech. Basically, how can you take what you're doing and make it "better" in your classroom. This should affect lesson planning. How can you really turbocharge learning through tech?

  • TPACK looks at the nexus of technology with content knowledge and pedagogical choices in your classroom. This will also impact lesson planning as you think about what you have to teach (content), how you'll teach it (pedagogy), and how you can include technology and web literacies into instruction. 

So now, you are to think about how you could embed online participation, as it is detailed in the web literacy work into your classroom. I define this as online collaborative inquiry in some of the materials you've read up to this point. How might your students collaborate and co-construct information using digital tools in your classroom?

They could collaboratively build a wiki as a class. They could work on Google Docs together as they research for other projects. In this class, you are all learning how to "participate" in the web literacy sense by using Hypothesis as you research online, sharing your work in Google Docs for review by the community, and then finally building a website and sharing your work online.

What would this look like in your classroom? How might this fold into the Internet Inquiry Unit Plan that you've been developing?

Create a lesson plan to detail how you'd fold this into instruction in your classroom. If you do not have a lesson plan template that you normally use, feel free to use my template.

Along with your lesson plan, you should create and share all materials you you would use in a unit or lesson that embeds aspects of online collaborative inquiry. You should include text, images, video, and/or audio to create learning materials that can support all learners. 

Planning: Start creating your Internet Inquiry Unit Plan.

If you haven't already, create a copy of the Unit Project Planning Workbook. You will use this template to complete your Internet Inquiry Unit Plan. 

Please complete Parts A & B in the copy that you make. Share this work on your website with your Critical Friends for review.

 You'll also notice that you're creating a lesson plan on "online collaborative inquiry" and "participation" using digital tools for use in your current/future classroom. Just so there is no confusion, this lesson plan (and the remaining two that you complete) should connect to this Internet Inquiry Unit Plan.

Also, remember that this unit plan is meant to be a unit of instruction that you will teach in your future classroom. It should be of high interest to you..and more importantly your students. You will need to ensure that the instruction is grade level appropriate and includes the necessary content and frameworks/standards. 

As soon as possible, this post will move over to your website as soon as you're ready.