My learning Diary by mina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t Collaborative Teaching and Learning en-us 2016-10-28 20:33:52 UTC 2025-09-29 08:03:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png Module 1What is collaborative learning? ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134004266 Collaborative learning is  when students at various way work together in small groups to reach a common goal, The teacher is just the facilitator for learning. Working on the etwinning platform I use this approach and it's difficult to manage ]]> 2016-10-28 20:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134004266 ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134007491 2016-10-28 21:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134007491 Module 1.2 Collaborative learning in a flexible classroom ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134009512  I'd like to work in a 3.0 classrom with a different environment and all the technological tools I need but in my class the desks are aligned in rows and it's difficult sometimes to use the lab where there is the Interactive whiteboard. Anyway,  we try to work in groups even for simple games or for  simple activities. Students support each other  and the classroom becomes more cohesive. Students enjoy this kind of lesson. ]]> 2016-10-28 21:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134009512 1.3 Collaborative learning through project-based learning ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134009828 I carry out  similar exercises to the "circle time" when we discuss how the group work went and I try to capture the positive and negative aspect of the activity but above all to understand if the students' collaboration worked . This kind of "evaluation" of an activity looks like very useful to know about the learning process, too. I really agree about the statement the technology is useful in class even if I think  not only for the collaborative practises]]> 2016-10-28 21:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134009828 I started thinking about the cooperative learning watching  this video ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134066341 2016-10-30 05:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134066341 ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134388855 2016-11-01 05:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134388855 1.6 Module 1 Learning Activity ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134390099 Low collaboration in my teaching. 
Students usually  learn by heart a dialogue with different parts and they have to do a role-play about it  in a group. Each of them has got a role to act. So each of them must work well if the group can reach the  goal.

 High cooperation in my teaching
For an etwinning project  my students had to make a video to present their town to the partners. Students  worked in group, each group had got an area of the town. They discussed an issue,  solved a problem and created their own product. Students  worked  together face to face or by using technology ( their own devises) to share ideas or resourses.  Before starting working they negotiated what to do, they agreed on what to do, they listened to the ideas of the others and they tried to integrate of ideas into a whole. The students’  final product required all students’ contribution in order for the team to succeed.  The role of each student was essential for the team

]]> 2016-11-01 05:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134390099 2.3 The 4 Collaboration Questions ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134635893 I think that the 4 major questions presented by Professor Deirdre are very useful to design a collaborative learning activity and when I ask my students to work together I always pay attention if they are really working together, if they have shared responsibility and if their work is interdipendent]]> 2016-11-01 21:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134635893 2.4 21 CLD Collaboration Rubric ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134640677 Professor Deirdre Butler's rubric could be very useful in helping to understand the type and quality of collaboration taking place in the learning activities  but I've never used it so I can't tell about the advantages or disadvantages of it. I'll try it as soon as possiblr]]> 2016-11-01 22:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134640677 2.5 Collaborative learning scenarios ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134644663 Great tool the scenario template and  very inspiring the example scenarios . Anyway,   I don't know exactly as I might adapt  them in my context. I need to study and think better]]> 2016-11-01 23:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134644663 ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134645906 2016-11-01 23:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/134645906 3.3 Assessment for improving collaborative learning ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/135943937 I don't think my assessment of collaborative  work sometimes discourage my students because I have the habit  to evaluate every performance and they know them. If I don't do it they ask me the grade or the sticker.

 I try to take into account the learning outcomes to collaborative work such as my etwinning projects in the summative assessment]]> 2016-11-07 21:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/135943937 3.4 : A sports teacher's experience of assessing collaborative learning ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136206276 I think Chrysa's assessment methods sound very interesting . I have appreciated the peer assessment questions because even if the pupils are very young they reflect about their work]]> 2016-11-08 19:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136206276 3.5 An ICT teacher’s experience of assessing students’ collaborative learning ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136211274  ]]> 2016-11-08 19:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136211274 3.6 Collaborative learning and student peer reviews ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136214199 Anna is a brilliant teacher and I agree with her different approaches. 
Anyway,  I'd like to highlight her  precious words ".....As a teacher, the biggest challenge in collaborative learning lies in summative assessment. Many of us will agree that marking is the worst task in our job! It's tough at times to persuade kids that they should not identify with "the mark" and feel frustrated. A mark may gauge the level of an individual performance, for for sure not a human being as a whole! Personally, I have often felt miserable when I must assess my students' job, especially when they have put so much of themselves in their work and still it is insufficient! I think that once you start working as a guide and a facilitator, you soon come to realise that our current system is not yet suitable for that: you cannot be coach and referee at the same time. If you are a coach, you obviously feel like part of a team! " ]]> 2016-11-08 19:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136214199 3.8 Answers to teachers’ questions on assessing collaborative learning ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136225064 2016-11-08 19:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136225064 My learning activity ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136261259 2016-11-08 22:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136261259 ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136262289 2016-11-08 22:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/136262289 4.3 A secondary teacher’s experience of teacher collaboration ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138453116   I have been using European collaboration as a teaching and learning tool since 2008. I have participated in some online projects on the etwinning platform. It's a real great approach to me and my students. I always search new ways to engage my students. I've never heard about some of the platforms mentioned by Reyhan and I agree that not all teachers have the required skills to take a advantages of digital technologies. Besides I think that all the emerging digital technologies can be efficienty to help teachers to collaborate but the real problem is the wish changing]]> 2016-11-17 16:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138453116 Lesson Plan Rubric ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138471112 2016-11-17 16:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138471112 4.4 The benefits and challenges of teacher collaboration ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138484262 Completely agree. Professor Butler turned in words my thoughts. Nevertheless my  school reality is different. 
This year I'm trying to collaborate with other teachers on the same topic in my school and I think it's the first time.I'm leading the team and we are planning on "curriculum mapping"
  I usually cooperate virtually outside the school on my own subject  with European schools on the etwinning platform and some years ago in  an amazing Comenius project. I can tell that they always are positive experiences that really "energise me". ]]> 2016-11-17 17:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138484262 A kind of rubric ponzianomina https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138924369 It's a useful rubric for the assessment according the Italian national syllabus]]> 2016-11-20 11:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ponzianomina/3ripf2avx11t/wish/138924369