Week 5 Reflection
Essential Question: How can you use these tools and techniques to promote collaboration and build community culture in your classroom? Research collaboration tools you could use in your classroom to discuss in your blog.
"As educators, we want our students to be collaborators - to know how to communicate effectively, compromise, and work together to demonstrate their understanding" (Burns, 2018, p. 57). There are so many wonderful tools out there now days to place our students in situations that allow them to collaborate on a number of different levels including: shared-screen, role-based, and remote (Burns, 2018).
Shared-screen collaboration occurs when students work together on a single piece of equipment to complete an activity (Burns, 2018). This is personally, my least favorite of the options because then one students always does more work than the rest. However, sometimes it is the only option if tech is limited or you want the outcome to created on a specific tool like iMovie, Spark Video, or Soundtrap.
Role-based collaboration happens when students break down a larger activity into individual tasks. They each work on one part of the assignment and bring it together for a final product (Burns, 2018). I often have my students each create one or two slide of a collaborate slideshow in Google Slides and then present the entire slideshow as a final product to the class. This type of collaboration is nice because each of the students are accountable to the entire group in order to create a final product.
Students can experience remote collaboration by using their own devices to connect with others on a shared platform (Burns, 2018). Some tools that are great for remote collaboration are Google for Education, Padlet, Flipgrid, and Skype in the Classroom. This is my preferred method of collaboration.
One of my favorite collaborative tech tools is Padlet. Padlet online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, and so much more in a secure location. I can create a Padlet with a discussion question, give students the link to it, and allow them to answer the question on the virtual classroom bulletin board.
"As educators, we want our students to be collaborators - to know how to communicate effectively, compromise, and work together to demonstrate their understanding" (Burns, 2018, p. 57). There are so many wonderful tools out there now days to place our students in situations that allow them to collaborate on a number of different levels including: shared-screen, role-based, and remote (Burns, 2018).
Shared-screen collaboration occurs when students work together on a single piece of equipment to complete an activity (Burns, 2018). This is personally, my least favorite of the options because then one students always does more work than the rest. However, sometimes it is the only option if tech is limited or you want the outcome to created on a specific tool like iMovie, Spark Video, or Soundtrap.
Role-based collaboration happens when students break down a larger activity into individual tasks. They each work on one part of the assignment and bring it together for a final product (Burns, 2018). I often have my students each create one or two slide of a collaborate slideshow in Google Slides and then present the entire slideshow as a final product to the class. This type of collaboration is nice because each of the students are accountable to the entire group in order to create a final product.
Students can experience remote collaboration by using their own devices to connect with others on a shared platform (Burns, 2018). Some tools that are great for remote collaboration are Google for Education, Padlet, Flipgrid, and Skype in the Classroom. This is my preferred method of collaboration.
One of my favorite collaborative tech tools is Padlet. Padlet online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, and so much more in a secure location. I can create a Padlet with a discussion question, give students the link to it, and allow them to answer the question on the virtual classroom bulletin board.
Padlet can be used for many different types of collaborate work. When I started looking around at what other folks are doing I saw everything from a place for students to brainstorm to flipped classrooms. You can also collaborate with colleagues by adding them as contributors.
What got me most excited about this was that students can create their responses in many different formats. They are able to type, post files, videos, photos, etc. This is especially exciting for me because when I used Flipgrid in my high school classroom almost all of my students did not like the idea of recording themselves and posting it for the whole class to see. This program gives them many different options.
Collaboration is key in developing students that will be successful in the 21st century so more and more tools to encourage collaboration are being developed every day.
Collaboration is key in developing students that will be successful in the 21st century so more and more tools to encourage collaboration are being developed every day.
Resource:
Burns, M. (2018). Tasks Before Apps : Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom. ASCD.
Burns, M. (2018). Tasks Before Apps : Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom. ASCD.
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