Hi, ED 308-ers!
This week, we learned about collaboration and communication in the online classroom. I think it is awesome that we are learning about how to create class, in a class that is created that way. Too often Professors have a "Do as I say, not as I do" mentality, but the structure of our course is the quality example in our assignments- pretty awesome if you ask me! Anyways, we learned that discussion boards are currently boring, ill-motivated, and purposeless; however, teachers can change that by giving them purpose, requiring critical thinking, and incorporating student interests.
In my Course Outline Assignment, I added the Navigation and Detailed Outline. This directly correlated to last week's addition, in that I had to put the assessments and assignments in each module, along with lectures and activities.
I thought an interesting idea from the video was that people love to tell stories. This gave me the thought that I could have students create a short story and illustrate a concept that is covered in my course. Since literacy and narratives are encouraged in all subjects, I think this would be a good way to incorporate it. I'd love any feedback on this idea.
I have collaboration and communication in the weekly reflections and group summaries; however, I feel that there could be more. I like the idea of Accountability-Talk, or Math Talk, it encourages students to speak with the content discourse in a critical manner. I think this could be possible with a live session, but that would require students to be available at the time for effectiveness. What are your thoughts on Math Talk in the E-Classroom?
Kassi, I believe that Math Talks in an E-classroom is a very good idea. Math Talks can build confidence in the classroom and in return it will lead to fluency. For children who struggle with Math this could be a way to reinforce their understanding of the Math concepts that you are teaching.It also gives your students the opportunity to say the Math strategies out loud and that can give you the opportunity to record math notations to match your students thinking. Students Say, See, and hear the concepts when you use Math Talks. I think that your idea about letting your students create a short story and illustrate a Math concept is a excellent idea. You could always assign concepts to your students for this activity. By assigning the concepts to your student you could group them together in pairs or small groups so that they could work on their collaborating skills as well.
ReplyDeleteMalorie Wooten
Growing up, it was very rare where I graduated to be in groups on math assignments. Even if there was a group, it always seemed one sided since some students were either good in math or not. However, there was one time a group project in math class was actually fun. It may sound something childish, but it works. During my middle school years, our math teacher has us play this computer game with nothing but pure math problems. It was to help us prepare for tests and homework at the end of each day. The games were completely random, from shooting robots using equations to estimating time and using fraction problems at a pizza parlor with you as the only employee running for the day. We had to be in groups because some problems require much more extra hands than one student alone. Each time someone had the problems solved we all get to the scoreboard to see who was the winner of each class period. The winner will get a choice of a pizza party during lunchtime or movie before class ended. It was a fun way for us to learn math and that was the only time I enjoyed learning math, even though I wasn't too great at some problems. I hope that this may spark an idea as far as working in groups go, and maybe you can come up with some games with math problems.
ReplyDeleteI will comment to the live classroom portion. Mechanically speaking, since you can make the class up however you want, you could make the live session a requirement. Many schools are starting to opt to this in their hybrid / blended sessions. This way students know up front that they have to "attend" on a certain day specified in the catalog, but don't have to drive three hours to be there.
ReplyDeleteI say all that to say don't let the "required online live session" be something that hinders a good idea.