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1. ISTE standards on communication & collaboration
Global Collaborators: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.
Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.
Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.
Students explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.
2. Live Poll about Online Collaboration
Speaking of collaborative group work, what comes to your mind immediately?
Do you think collaborative learning is important for online learning?
Are your online collaborative learning experiences generally positive?
3. Q Sort Activity
Although collaborative learning has many benefits and advantages, but there are many challenges as well, especially for online collaboration. Almost all of us have experienced some frustrations in collaborative group work. In preparation for the next group project, which will be introduced next week, we'll do a Q sort activity.
This is also my own research project. Participation is voluntary and won't affect your grades. But I hope you can provide your honest opinion about online collaboration because it'll help me better understand students' needs and become a better instructor and researcher.
There are 29 statements related to frustration in online collaboration. You need to follow the instructions step by step to sort them into some boxes based on your experience and perceptions of online collaboration. It is possible that you have never experienced some of the frustrations before. In that case, just imagine, if you were in that position, how frustrating it would be to you.
Step 1: Sort them into 3 general piles: frustrating, not frustrating, and neutral
Step 2: Read the statements carefully and sort them into more specific categories from most frustrating to least frustrating
Step 3: Revisit your sorting and make changes if needed
Step 4: Explain why you sort some particular statements as most/least frustrating
Step 5: Fill out a very simple survey
Homework
By Thursday, 02/25:
1. Post your Maker Project and reflection on your portfolio. We'll do Maker Faire next Tuesday.
2. Form your group for the next project.
You'll have the freedom to choose your own partners for the next project, where you will work together with 1-2 other students to create a lesson plan for a collaborative learning activity (more details will be provided next week). You need to reach out to potential teammates and form your team by Thursday. Otherwise, you'll be assigned to a random team.
By next Tuesday, 03/02, before class:
3. Choose one of the following to read or listen to (and then answer the three questions):
Podcast: Making Cooperative Learning Work Better" by the author of our textbook.
Article: 8 Cooperative Learning Practices to Enrich Your Online or Hybrid Classroom
Send your responses to the three questions to me via Slack direct message (there is no right or wrong answer): 1. Why or when do we want students to do collaborative group work instead of individual work? 2. What are the challenges of collaborative learning? 3. What should we pay special attention to when collaborating online?
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