Building a Safe Online Community

Every school should be a model home, a complete community actively developing future compassionate citizens capable of creating, leading and contributing to the kind of democratic communities - in which we all long to live.

— Jeanne Gibbs http://tribes.com/

What makes community

Your physical classroom reflects

your online classroom

What makes this classroom such a good

classroom?

What can I do to make it an even better

classroom?

As the teacher, what do I need to know and

understand about this classroom?

Ask

yourself

Adapted from

How we formed our community

Becky Burnette

Plu_Plu

Valley Library (Oregon State

University)

Provide a purpose. Now that students have

time reserved for them they need a purpose use

for that time.

·As teachers we need to provide time for

students to work together. Students

need time above and beyond the

listening to teacher or doing research.

Just time to talk and discuss.

Virginia

Guard

Public

Affairs

thomasfj

Most adults have had the experience of being on a "bad" team.

Perhaps the team was unclear regarding its purpose, or hidden

agendas emerged, or an individual dominated the discussion,

or members were untrusting of one another, or the group did

not feel it had the authority to take needed action after making

decisions. Psychologist Robert Sternberg (1996) contends that

such groups have low "group IQ." He argues that while a

group can be no "smarter" than the sum of the strengths of

individual members, it can be "dumber" if its internal

workings don’t allow members to share their talents.

Taking on loneliness

By Rick DuFour

Journal of Staff Development, Winter 1999 (Vol. 20, No. 1)

Why Cooperative Learning Researchers have discovered that learning

is an active process in which the student

needs an opportunity to use,

to experiment or

try out,

to play with,

to make sense of

new knowledge.

Making Small Groups Productive

Issues in Restructuring Schools

r3v || cls

Chris - sillicon valley, USA

Constructive

individual feedback is

critical not simply to

certify the level of

student success, but

more importantly, to

stimulate mental

activity in processing

and making sense of

knowledge.

Making Small Groups Productive

Issues in Restructuring Schools

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

To stimulate further inquiry, if they are to

learn, they need meaningful interaction

with a teacher or peers about progress in

their work

Making Small Groups Productive

Issues in Restructuring Schools

ToGa Wanderings

· We will be on time and

prepared with all necessary

materials.

· Everyone is expected to

participate by sharing ideas,

concerns, etc.

· We will limit our

discussion to the learning at

hand.

· We will reach decisions

by consensus after all

opinions have been heard.

· We will maintain an

atmosphere of mutual

respect.

Positive Rules

Making Small Groups Productive

Issues in Restructuring Schools

ransomtech

When students are finished with team work they must show

evidence of learning by:

· Authentic projects

http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/howdoyoudoit.htm

AUTHENTIC EVIDENCE OF

STUDENTS’ ATTAINMENT OF

ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

C. McInnis-Bowers , Rollins College And E. Byron Chew,

Birmingham-Southern College

AAC&U 2010 Annual Conference and Meeting

January 21, 2010 Washington, D.C.

Wesley Fryer

Summation of discussion

Kelly-Ann's Pics!

Creation of artifacts

jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson -

Menlo Park, USA

twid

Todd Dailey - Santa Clara,

CA, United States

Apply learning in new context

joannamkay

Jo Kay - Wollongong,

Australia

Reflective thinking

giulia.forsythe

Giulia Forsythe

Ken Whytock

Ken Whytock - Drumbo, Canada

Complex instruction (CI)

Making Small Groups Productive

Issues in Restructuring Schools

Is one way of boosting

Higher Ordered Thinking Skills.

Bolster students of low status by identifying

multiple abilities.

By Nasser NouriNasser Nouri

Raise the expectations for competence

marynbtol

Toledo, OH, USA

Develop student responsibility for each others’

performance and learning

By C.M.C.M. Gonzalez

Promote higher order thinking

deichgnu

How is this done in real life?

When discussing appropriate

classroom behavior include

appropriate online behavior.

By factoryjoeChris Messina

Be clear to students that technology makes it

EASIER for you the teacher to track who is

participating and who isn’t (This is also a great

hint that cyber bullying will be much more

difficult).

By

abracapocus_pocuscadabraAndrea Roberts

Digital footprint

By ransomtechSteve Ransom

Image provided by tunnelarmr used under a Creative Commons

licensewww.flickr.com/photos/tunnelarmr/2293746022/

Visual quotation inspired by this NY Times article:

www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/spring-break-gets-tamer-as-...

Can Facebook tell you who this is? Germany thinks they shouldn't.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/technology/germans-reopen-facebook-privacy-inquiry.html

Give students time to practice

Decide What is important

• Yes you do need to have some control of the forum

for discussion

• Many collaborative tools allow multiple users - how

will you monitor the chat functions?

o How necessary is it to monitor all communications

o Do you monitor all communications in class

discussions

• If students choose to use a tool you don't know

anything about fine, but they are on their own.

• Does everyone need to use a school computer

o can they share a single computer

o can student use devices brought from home