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Collaborative Learning Chatboard

Learning with social media can be powerful

by Tom Forsmo

Jun 18, 2014

Try this new social learning platform, flip your classroom, distribute your lessons and hand out assignments. Give you students the opportunity to collaborate and discuss their digital knowledge with gostudyit.com

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Welcome to the Collaborative Learning Chatboard!

by Bob Reap (Teachers.Net)

Jun 21, 2011

Welcome to the Collaborative Learning Chatboard. This chatboard is for teachers to discuss Collaborative Learning/Cooperative Learning in the classroom - collaborative games, lesson plans, strategies and exercises for teaching collaborative learning.

Wikipedia defines collaborative learning as:

...an approach to organizing classro...See More

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disney cathy K(ret) Hi Bob, Although retired I enjoy reading the posts about this interesting subject. DC > > On 6/21/11, Bob Reap (Teachers.Net) wrote: >> Welcome to the Collaborative Learning Chatboard. This >> chatboard is for teachers to discuss Collaborative >> Learning/Cooperative Learning in the classroom - >> collaborative games, ...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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Ms. S. Love using collaborative learning in my classroom! It gives the kids a chance to take on leaderships roles with their peers. Looking forward to new ideas!!

Jun 22, 2011

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Productive Group Work

by Kathy M

Jun 22, 2011

The county offered a class based upon this book. I like the way teachers organized the groups. Make a list of all the students arranging them from most talkative to least talkative. Number them Make a list from most studious yo least studious. Number them. Add the two numbers together for each student, put them in order. Groupings are students 1&am...See More

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sci-saxet to Bulldog Over the years I have learned that letting students pick their groups especially for projects that are weighted more than a daily grade is a good thing to do. Though I have been known to let students pick groups, but some people can't be in the same group. So it is a bit limiting, however, they still get to pick.

Now when we do labs, I hav...See More

Jun 25, 2011

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Wow! With the exception of the person who suggested the Kagan strategies I have never read so many bad strategies for supposed "cooperative" learning in one place. Ranking students by talkativeness and studiousness and placing them together based on an arbitrary score? yuck Choosing their own partners does not guarantee they have noone to blame but them...See More

Aug 8, 2011

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Collaborative Learning Words of Wisdom

by Kimberly Riffle

Jun 22, 2011

Teachers! I am giving an hour presentation on Collaborative Learning tomorrow. If there are any experiences you have where Collaborative Learning really worked in your classroom, please feel free to share so I can share. If you have a disaster story, share that, too!

Thanks in advance! Kim

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CJ On 6/22/11, Novel wrote: > > Ask students to prepare a presentation together and each must > contribute 10 sentences (or 5 or something). This way, they > all have to invest something in the task because they are all > responsible for the outcome. > > Work in small groups rather than large ones - it is easier to > be "lost" ...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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CJ Sorry for the empty post - I hit enter instead of tab.

I found that requiring students to fill out a self-evaluation form at the end of each session and allowing them to complete a form on each team member helped them focus on what they were to do (the evaluation form went along with the task) and helped prevent them from becoming too soc...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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building castles

by parents talk

Jun 22, 2011

My class was studying mid-evil Europe and I assigned groups to build castles together. One group in particular could not work together but the other groups were doing great. They wanted me to change their group. I talked with each student (3 of them per group) individual to find out the problem and gave each suggestions on how to handle the problem...See More

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parents talk On 6/22/11, DeAnn wrote: > What would you have done if they had not worked it out?

Great question! Knowing my students I still would have kept them in the same group but work closer with that group. It would have been unfair to change the groups that were working well together. Our next group lesson they would not have been together. I...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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parents talk On 6/22/11, parents talk wrote: Bridget Cline PO Box 522 Montrose, CO 81402

> My class was studying mid-evil Europe and I assigned groups > to build castles together. One group in particular could > not work together but the other groups were doing great. > They wanted me to change their group. I talked with each > student ...See More

Jul 7, 2011

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Common Core Standards

by Kathy/ks

Jun 22, 2011

I'm in an inservice for the new standards today. It is making me think that collaboration will be much more meaningful rather than just completing a worksheet together.

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Terry I use collaborative learning as much as possible. My problem is having the space to arrange my desks in groups. The students like working in groups and I have been reading more this summer about project based learning.

I always give students rubrics. One is for the project and the other is for group work. This way they know what to expect ...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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Will you share a rubric? I am never happy with the ones I make. When it comes to scoring the work, I always feel that they just don't work well. Do you have a resource you have used to borrow a rubric?

On 6/22/11, Terry wrote: > I use collaborative learning as much as possible. My problem is > having the space to arrange my desks in groups. The students li...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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collaborative planning

by pksped

Jun 22, 2011

A few years ago, our school started grade band weekly collaborative planning meetings. Each week, the P-2, 3-4, and 5-6 teachers meet (three separate meetings.) Special ed teachers go to these meetings or their own separate meetings as deemed necessary (by them.) Meetings are on different days so that the principal may attend all meetings (or none,...See More

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judy5ca has no idea what happened On 6/22/11, Tallytchr wrote: > Every year we are forced to do "cross grade level" planning. > We meet with the grade level below ours in one session and > meet with the grade level above us at another time. > > The first year, the grade level above us decided this was a > time to let us know all the things we weren't doing to prep...See More

Jun 22, 2011

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Tallytchr Didn't think it went through!

Jun 22, 2011

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Grouping

by Jamie

Jun 22, 2011

How do you handle grouping? I often find that mixing students of different levels works best; however, my classes are now ability grouped which makes collaborative learning groups more difficult for me in my middle school language arts classroom.

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Tallytchr I guess you would have to look at their strengths and weaknesses. Probably wouldn't want to pair too many strong personalities or shy personalities in one group.

It might be easier with ability leveled groups though...not as frustrating for the high kids if the other kids are high too. should work well as long as personalities don't clash.

Jun 22, 2011

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mrsd This is simplistic, but many times, I just go down my student list and count off the number I need. If there are three in a group, I count "1,2,3,1,2,3..." Because we use Making Meaning, I just use the seating chart and have them move their desks into tables. They are then in that pair or group for that unit. I used to worry about non-participants,...See More

Jun 23, 2011

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Collaboration is the Answer to mediation

by Karren Buffum

Jun 22, 2011

I have taught elementary for the last 5 years and I believe the more you let children collaborate the less you will have to use some sort of intervention. Any parent knows that children do learn from others whether it is positive or negative learning. Teachers need to realize the more collaboration in the classroom may lead to a higher noise level ...See More

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Looking for feedback on 3 Cooperative Learning Strucures

by Teresa Johnson

Feb 29, 2012

I need to get to get advice about the structures I've selected for a grad course assignment. The three structures I need to inquire about are CORNERS, NAME TOSS Cooperative Game, and FIND SOMEONE WHO. If you have used any of these, please send feedback to my email about what grade level you used it with, any adapting or variation you implemented, h...See More

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Stacy I have used Find Someone Who...on several occasions. It is a great ice breaker. I recently used it with a grade 7 class, but I have also used this with high school students. Everyone seems to like the activit

Feb 29, 2012

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