6C. Portfolio Assignment
Communications, Then and Now
Our choices have greatly expanded in the digital age, as have the challenges that come with 24/7 access to information. Students should reflect on one or more of these five aspects in their account of communication and collaboration strategies used to complete their project or tasks.
Purposes and audiences
Depending on who students are trying to contact, they may find analog strategies sometimes work better than digital means. Make sure students reflect on any trends they identify as they complete their project or tasks.
Products, Then and Now
How do students match up the products they create in their project or to complete their tasks with the possibilities digital tools provide? Make sure students compare and contrast these in their reflections.
Portfolio Assignment
How do you teach collaboration? Using the lesson plan template create a lesson that explicitly teaches your students how to constructively collaborate. Ask your students to evaluate their communication and collaboration patterns, based on an actual assignment or project you have provided in class. However, your lesson plan for our purposes is the lesson that you used to explicitly teach collaboration.
Make sure they include: who they communicated with, how often, when (before, during or after school) and what digital modalities they used (chat, cell phone, text, skype, email, blog, wiki, Twitter, etc.) and traditional (in person conversation, mail, note, phone) in order to complete their task. The students' final product could be any of the following (or other options, if you can dream of them!): Google Doc t-chart, identifying the digital and traditional modes they used; a Glog; a blog post. Another option could be if you, as the teacher, create a Google Form that the students complete as their means of reflection.
Ensure that one part of the lesson includes the students having an opportunity to reflect on the communication styles that work best for different audiences and situations, as well. Complete the lesson plan template and share a student sample of work.
Make sure they include: who they communicated with, how often, when (before, during or after school) and what digital modalities they used (chat, cell phone, text, skype, email, blog, wiki, Twitter, etc.) and traditional (in person conversation, mail, note, phone) in order to complete their task. The students' final product could be any of the following (or other options, if you can dream of them!): Google Doc t-chart, identifying the digital and traditional modes they used; a Glog; a blog post. Another option could be if you, as the teacher, create a Google Form that the students complete as their means of reflection.
Ensure that one part of the lesson includes the students having an opportunity to reflect on the communication styles that work best for different audiences and situations, as well. Complete the lesson plan template and share a student sample of work.