TEC-530 Beyond the Classroom by Chris Honaker

Collaboration & Communication Skills

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Active Listening: Listening to and considering others' perspectives.
Clear Communication: Expressing ideas and opinions effectively through various digital platforms.
Empathy and Cultural Awareness: Understanding and respecting diverse viewpoints and cultural backgrounds.
Critical Thinking: Analyzing information and making informed decisions.
Digital Etiquette: Navigating online interactions responsibly and respectfully.

Flipgrid

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Flipgrid is a video discussion platform that allows students to record and share short videos on various topics. It promotes collaboration and communication through video responses.

Pros: Encourages student voice, promotes creativity, and supports different learning styles.
Cons: Requires strong moderation to ensure appropriate interactions.
Examples: Students can participate in international projects, share opinions on global issues, or practice foreign languages by engaging with peers from other countries.

Digital Tool - Padlet

chrishonaker3 — 2024-04-18 04:50:30 UTC

Padlet is an online bulletin board where students can post notes, images, and videos. It fosters collaboration through shared content and discussions.

Pros: Easy to use, encourages creativity, and supports multimedia content.
Cons: Limited free features; students may post inappropriate content without proper moderation.
Examples: Students can collaborate on research projects, create timelines of historical events, or share reflections on cultural topics.

Google Docs

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Google Docs is a cloud-based word processing tool that allows real-time collaboration. Students can work together on documents, providing feedback and edits.

Pros: Promotes teamwork, allows for immediate feedback, and integrates with other Google tools.
Cons: Requires internet access; possible distractions if students use other tabs.
Examples: Students can co-author research papers, collaborate on group projects, or peer-review each other's work.

Common Sense Media Lesson

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Games, social media, and other online spaces give kids opportunities to meet and chat with others outside the confines of their real-life communities. But how well do kids actually know the people they're meeting and interacting with? Help students consider whom they're talking to and the types of information they're sharing online.

OBJECTIVES:

Analyze how well they know the people they interact with online.
Reflect on what information is safe to share with different types of online friends.
Learn to recognize red flag feelings and use the Feelings & Options thinking routine to respond to them.

Flipgrid Lesson Plans

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“Given the increase in UDL strategies in the learning environment, teacher users of Flipgrid can stay true to their beliefs about giving students a range of ways to engage with content and demonstrate understanding of content, and at the same time support their learners in ways that best work with our digital age learners” (Green, Besser, and Donovan, 2021, p. 793)

Padlet Lesson Plan

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Google Docs Lesson Plan

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Best Student Collaboration Tools

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"Adding a social element to an activity can truly boost its learning value. These tools mix productivity and creativity, getting students to share and collaborate on projects, give and take feedback, annotate, brainstorm, make media, or just hang out. With ways to share research materials, notes on their thinking, and private notes with their teacher, kids will have opportunities to use their voices in the learning process. And with some reflection, students can also use metacognition to examine their own process. No matter the use, there's tech here that'll show students how collaboration leads to better knowledge building as well as the development of social and emotional skills like teamwork."

Quizlet

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Quizlet is an online learning platform that allows students to create and use digital flashcards to aid in their studies. It offers various study modes and features to help students learn and retain information more effectively.

Flexible Study Modes: Quizlet offers various study modes such as flashcards, tests, learn, write, spell, and match games. These different modes cater to various learning styles and help reinforce knowledge in diverse ways.
User-Created Content: Students can create their own sets of flashcards tailored to their specific study needs or access millions of pre-existing sets created by other users. This allows them to find or create high-quality resources quickly.
Interactive Learning: Quizlet's interactive learning tools, such as games and quizzes, make studying more engaging and fun for students, which can enhance their motivation to learn.

Edutopia Global Education

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"Looking for ways to help students appreciate cultural diversity, build awareness about global issues, and develop global competence? Explore these resources for ideas on bringing global dimensions into the classroom."

Global & Cross-Cultural Education

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"Use these global perspective and cross-cultural education tools to raise the stakes of learning, creating authentic learning opportunities that build empathy and broaden students' perspectives. Through the study of other places and cultures, students can even better understand their own culture (and biases and privileges). They can explore the similarities and differences among people, and the shared global challenges -- like climate change and inequality -- that require global, cross-cultural collaboration and deep empathy. These picks will help students build these skills. Students will also grasp how big -- and small -- the world really is, and that it's full of discoveries to make and problems to solve."

Global Goals

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"We’re at halftime and only 15% of the #GlobalGoals are on track. COVID-19, the cost of living, conflict, the climate crisis – such as floods, heatwaves, wildfires – have set us back, but hope remains. We’re joining the United Nations for the critical SDG Halftime Campaign this year, because any match is won in the second half. Let’s regroup, re-energize and win together.

Find out how you get involved at globalgoals.org/halftime "

chrishonaker3 — 2024-04-18 06:02:28 UTC

"The 21st-century skills are critical to student development. Demands that must be faced in the 21st century namely 4C skills; creative thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration (Thornhill-Miller et al., 2023). Students need to be prepared to master these skills (Triana et al., 2020). 21st century learning aims for students to master critical thinking skills. Learning emphasizes more on students being able to formulate problems besides being able to solve problems, it also encourages students to cooperate and collaborate in solving problems" (Lina et al., 2023, pg. 315).

chrishonaker3 — 2024-04-18 06:06:53 UTC

"Padlet can be used in both traditional and online learning environments as a tool to encourage student collaboration and provide a virtual bulletin board for students to collaborate on classroom assignments, share resources, and organize related course content" (Waltemeyer et. al., 2021, pg. 94).

Global Learning & Awarness

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"Many are using Flipgrid as a way to build in social learning, breed student connectedness, and infuse a sense of community. Often this occurs through introduction topics where students reveal personal anecdotes, showcase their unique selves, and the feel of learning is more informal. By incorporating these activities, students connect to their classmates, get to know each other better, and interactions are more personal (Agan et al., 2020; Keiper et al., 2020)" (Green, Besser, and Donovan, 2021, pg. 787).