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Lesson Plan for Implementing Collaborative Discussion by using Discussion Boards

August 27, 2009

Susan Nishimura

Resources:

http://www.ISTE.org

[|www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_standards/icti/incs/quickScaleTbl.html]

I would like to focus on

-Communication and Collaboration Standards (ISTE) i.e. students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

On another level they should also be good digital citizens

-Digital Citizenship (ISTE) – students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behaviour

-Socially Constructed Knowledge; gathering information from others using communication tools (BC Standards): uses communication tools to collaborate with others, build personal understanding, and share ideas about the task

Rationale for lesson

Train Trip

Collaboration is the destination, the ultimate goal

The students are the passengers

The journey is the term and the stops along the way are places that my special needs kids will tune out/not participate. However, the journey overall is very important and the hope is that they will stay on the train more than they are off. The times that they are off the train are like certain travellers who have to make more pit stops than others – they need adaptations, smaller goals. Perhaps my expectations should be to hope that they are engaged/ participating for half the time as the rest of the class...? Yet, is this not success for them?

Lesson 1 - Teaching Students How to Analyze Other’s Responses to Current Event Issues