Each week students sit down together in a classroom, login to google classroom, and the room goes silent. We've learned to use the new SIRS Discoverer research database, reviewed another database called Culture Grams, and curated several lists of articles related to technology. Each class we close out our activity with a discussion about the day's lesson. The discussion is online, with each student responding via google classroom. Here students can reflect and debate the day's question. Every student voice is heard because every student posts a response. And this is when the class gets loud again- for every comment posted students find it beyond difficult to not turn and blurt out "I sent a response to you!" Then a student discovered how to insert an emoji….But loud can be good when students are engaged, discussing, debating, and thinking about what they just learned. The best part is that we are becoming an active, supportive online community of learners- the cornerstone of digital citizenship.
That's close to 60 comments- not bad for a quick 5 minute discussion!
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