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5 PRACTICES FOR PRODUCTIVE ONLINE DISCUSSIONS:

Learn how to anticipate, monitor, connect, select, and sequence online discussions to create a productive learning environment. Adapt traditional classroom strategies to engage students in cognitive thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning.

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5 PRACTICES FOR PRODUCTIVE ONLINE DISCUSSIONS:

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  1. 5 PRACTICES FOR PRODUCTIVE ONLINE DISCUSSIONS: ADAPTING A BRICK-AND-MORTAR STRATEGY TO ONLINE DISCUSSION BOARDS

  2. ANTICIPATE MONITOR CONNECT LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK SELECT SEQUENCE

  3. A Good Task • Cognitively challenging • Requires thinking, reasoning, problem solving • Builds on and honors student thinking • Not just show and tell or one right answer • DISCUSSION WORTHY TASK

  4. Anticipate • What do you think students will say? • How will they interpret the prompt? • What strategies will they use? ANTICIPATE

  5. Monitor • Watch what students say • Probe them to clarify and make their thinking more visible MONITOR

  6. Select • Select which students you want to share • Consider strategies, skills, and time SELECT

  7. Sequence • Decide the order in which students share • Sequence depends on learning goals SEQUENCE

  8. Connect • Help students notice key ideas, connections, and patterns CONNECT

  9. ANTICIPATE MONITOR CONNECT TASK SELECT SEQUENCE

  10. Example of the 5 Practices in an Online Discussion To join the conversation: • goo.gl/slides/qydnuf

  11. Contextual Background • Fully online EdD program in Curriculum Studies • Dissertation in Practice (CPED Affiliate) • K-12 Teachers, Administrators, & District level personnel • 2 & 4 year college instructors, program officers • Course: Advanced Principles of Action Research • 8-week course, Blackboard LMS, 2nd in AR sequence • Instructor - Seven years of experience supporting educators using online tools & social constructivism

  12. Members will reintroduce themselves, describe their professional context, their problem of practice and their proposed intervention. Members will develop a set of shared expectations for discussion board participation and the critical feedback cycle. Week 1: Initiating the Course Community LEARNING OBJECTIVE

  13. Week 1: Initiating the Course Community This? DISCUSSION WORTHY TASK Cognitively Challenging Not just show and tell or one right answer Requires thinking, reasoning, problem solving Builds on and honors thinking Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf LEARNING OBJECTIVE

  14. Week 1: Initiating the Course Community Or This? DISCUSSION WORTHY TASK Cognitively Challenging Not just show and tell or one right answer Requires thinking, reasoning, problem solving Builds on and honors thinking LEARNING OBJECTIVE Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf

  15. What Would We Anticipate? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE In the Traditional Classroom • Watch what students say • Probe them to clarify and make their thinking more visible MONITOR CONNECT Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  16. What Would We Anticipate? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE In the Traditional Classroom • Watch what students say • Probe them to clarify and make their thinking more visible In the Online Classroom • Expectations that promote or disrupt community • Action Steps that promote or disrupt community • Digital supports for embedding video • Definitions of “tradition”, “expectation” • Key words, phrases, concepts, etc. • Misunderstanding the prompt MONITOR CONNECT SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  17. What Would We Monitor? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE • Watch what students say • Probe them to clarify and make their thinking more visible MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  18. What & How Would We Monitor? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE • Watch what students say • Probe them to clarify and make their thinking more visible MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  19. What & How Would We Monitor? TASK Online Discussion • Subscribe to threads • Set deadlines for each stage • Use smaller groups • Use keywords to search forum • Member Context & Research Details (timezone, research interests, theories, interventions) • Incomplete or unclear ideas • Opposing & Similar Expectations and Action Steps ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Watch what students say • Probe them to clarify and make their thinking more visible MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  20. What & How Would We Select? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Select which students you want to share • Consider strategies, skills, and time MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  21. What & How Would We Select? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Online Discussion • Creative Videos • Negative Traditions • Clear articulation of instructional objective • Opposing & Similar Expectations and Action Steps • Unique Expectations/Action Steps • At midpoint, use the announcement tool to highlight specific threads for student engagement Traditional Classroom • Select which students you want to share • Consider strategies, skills, and time MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  22. How Would We Sequence? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Decide the order in which students share • Sequence depends on learning goals MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  23. How Would We Sequence? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Decide the order in which students share • Sequence depends on learning goals Online Discussion • Extend the discussion over two weeks using an additional prompt that is emergent • Does the asynchronous environment make sequencing impossible? • Instructor Presence? MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  24. What & How Would We Connect? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Help students notice key ideas, connections, and patterns MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT CONNECT Add you ideas here: goo.gl/slides/qydnuf SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  25. What & How Would We Connect? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Help students notice key ideas, connections, and patterns Online Discussion • Video summary by instructor • Create and display a digital map for member locations • Synthesize the expectations into a concise list for member review. • Identify connections to past and future discussions. MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT CONNECT SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  26. What & How Would We Connect? TASK ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE Traditional Classroom • Help students notice key ideas, connections, and patterns MONITOR MONITOR CONNECT CONNECT SELECT SELECT SEQUENCE SEQUENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVE TASK

  27. ADAPTING A BRICK-AND-MORTAR STRATEGY TO ONLINE DISCUSSION BOARDS ANTICIPATE Thank you for participating! Questions, New Ideas, etc? What was your biggest takeaway from this today? MONITOR CONNECT TASK SELECT SEQUENCE

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