Using Technology to find, organize, and curate educational resources is a daunting task. With each web article I read I found myself traveling further down a rabbit hole, clicking on this new article, trying this curation tool, trying this other curation tool, and what I discovered is that curating and organizing educational resources is very important. Every year I find myself reinventing the wheeling, searching for new games, as well as trying to remember where I bookmarked things from my past. Had I been more organized, like all the tools I read about help do, I would have had a large curated and organized lists of games, resources, and other educational tools for my classroom. Some of the tools that I tried: 1. diigo.com -Helps you curate links and also allows you to create a group to collaborate and share links with.. 2. https://wakelet.com/collections -Is a really cool site you can put all your bookmarks with descriptions, and then you can embed them. I tested this out and embedded it on my class website, which is super exciting since every school I've been at requires me to use their own website, so I can just embed my links instead of having to recreate a page. Courses designed with strong social learning overtones will optimize and diversify peer communication and collaboration. Structured discussions, groupwork, peer review, and background “watercooler chat” combine to create a rich and holistic social learning experience. Physical learning spaces are flexible enough to support social learning workflows naturally. By comparison, many online learning spaces seem limited, unfamiliar, and awkwardly compartmentalized. Please share ideas you have to create social networks in online settings that mirror strong social learning overtones in face to face settings.
When I think about ways in which we can create strong social networks in online settings, a few ideas come to mind. First, create a jamboard where students can go to post their strengths (what they can help tutor with) and weaknesses (I need help with...). This would allow students to help each other and give them an opportunity to reflection on their learning, or lack of. Next, an online parking lot would also be great where students can post questions and other students/teachers can answer. Time can be given at the end of each day for student reflection, as well as time to go to the parking lot and see what people are mulling over. Additionally, weekly discussion questions that build upon in-class learning where students are required to respond to the question and respond to 2-3 others (just like in this class) would help them interact academically. Finally, a wall of fame, where students post work they are proud of as exemplars and teachers can post student work that was an exemplar if a student does not post their own work. This would help digitize and document exemplars for the teacher, as well as document their sense of self-pride.
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