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Digital Collaboration to Increase Student Learning

Digital Collaboration to Increase Student Learning. Mary Jo Davis & Ray Francis. Digital Collaboration. How do you define collaboration?. To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor (from Merriam-Webster online dictionary).

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Digital Collaboration to Increase Student Learning

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  1. Digital Collaboration to Increase Student Learning Mary Jo Davis & Ray Francis

  2. Digital Collaboration How do you define collaboration? To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor (from Merriam-Webster online dictionary) To work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work (from Dictionary.com) My favorite: WORK TOGETHER (from Roget’s Thesaurus.com)

  3. Digital collaboration in action . . .

  4. Digital collaboration-value to education Bloom’s taxonomy—help your students move… FROM HERE TO HERE

  5. Digital collaboration-value to education Marzano’s nine guidelines to improve student achievement • Identifying similarities & differences • Summarizing & notetaking • Reinforcing effort & providing recognition • Homework & practice • Nonlinguistic representation • Cooperative learning • Setting objectives & providing feedback • Generating & testing hypotheses • Cues, questions, & advance organizers

  6. Digital collaboration Fits all learning environments • Face to face • Perfect for group work sessions • Remember to involve technology • Blended instruction • Blended classroom perfect fit • Virtual classrooms • Embed technology in classroom site • Multiple tools for use in online class

  7. To participate in the following poll To vote on today’s polls: Each poll has an address where you send your response, varying according to your submission method Each answer has a number corresponding to your answer Smart phone Text: text to 37607 with answers Online @PollEv.com: list your answer number in “Web Response” box Twitter:@poll XXXXXX with XXXXXX being your answer number

  8. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

  9. Today’s discussion First Second Using technology to collaborate which increases student engagement & learning Storytelling &creativityHow to engage students using basic technology Polling in the classroom a basic introduction Polling in actionSpecific tools & display possibilities Collaborative questingSending you on a scavenger hunt Wikis, blogs, & sharingLet them create the story, & add to each other’s work Q & A and time to experiment Third Fourth Fifth Closing

  10. STORYTELLING

  11. Storytelling in a real classroom & shared by a real teacher

  12. StorytellingA valuable tool for many reasons Students with problems communicating Help students find their voice Discuss difficult issues Why do YOU think storytelling is valuable?

  13. Storytelling—as a classroom tool Students can tell stories in many ways Pictures Audio narratives—more privacy w/o images Narrated slideshow Movie story Help students explore new territory, problem solve, & learn coping strategies

  14. Storytelling in many forms Technologies to create storytelling output Wikis Wiki on Digital Collaboration Blogs Blog discussing digital collaboration tools

  15. POLLING

  16. Poll Anywhere, Everywhere, Anyhow… Add student input during discussions with live polling Don’t fear technology, embrace it!

  17. Various polling software

  18. Polling: not a new concept Instructors have always asked students for feedback • Modify lecture to meet student needs • Check for understanding • Check if students are grasping difficult concepts or formulas On the fly polling helps to:

  19. Polling: as a teaching tool By polling, an instructor can: • Resource • evaluation • Check for understanding • KWL info gathering • Pre/post event surveys • Collaboration in class • (online or f2f)

  20. Polling: as a learning tool Students can administer their own polls • Group responses • Data for student research • Promote positive performance • Analyze and synthesize • data • Improve writing skills

  21. Situation where polling would work for you Face to face classroom ideas?? Online format ideas??

  22. COLLABORATIVE QUESTING

  23. Collaboration through Questing New ways to insure student collaboration • Online scavenger hunts • Web quest • Directed notes • Shared research • New & prior knowledge • Cooperation & collaboration

  24. Questing for learning Learning could include collaboration, teamwork, research skills • Identify roles for each participant • Spell out essential group details • Clearlyidentify objective & search methodology • Outline acceptable resources • Describe end product plainly and base grades upon published rubric

  25. Digital collaboration building blocks Add digital collaboration to your classroom. . . .

  26. QUESTIONS? ? ?

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