from drab to fab: designing dynamic virtual spaces
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From Drab to Fab:
Designing Dynamic Virtual Discussions
OTRK12 April 1, 2014
photo courtesy of Donna Fry @fryed
http://bit.ly/otrk12_2014
• #otrk12
• bsherry@ugcloud.ca Itinerant Tech Coach
Upper Grand DSB
• @brendasherry – twitter
• brendasherry.com - blog
Appreciative Inquiry
• positive psychology (Martin Seligman)
• strengths based vs deficit based
• social constructivism
• we are the stories we tell
• we are the dreams we imagine
Evocative Coaching
• change - one conversation at a time
• strengths-based
• design thinking
• appreciative inquiry
• Ruby Red slippers
• Bob & Megan Tschannen-Moran
What does the research say?
• trust
• developing voice
• discourse,
questioning,
accountable talk
• digging deeper with
ideas
• monologue vs
dialogue
• aggregation of
‘stuff’
• parallel
conversations
• me vs us
Katz, Earl and Jaafer
Learning Communities in general:
1. Storytelling and scanning for ideas
2. Aid and assistance
3. Sharing
4. Joint work - shared responsibility for
improving the work of teaching
Steven Katz
In order for joint work to be productive:
• de-privatization
• collective commitment to change
• not about preserving existing understanding
• making thinking explicit, accessible, subject to scrutiny
• quality vs quantity of collaboration (activity traps)
Icebreakers
• getting to know you
• building an online voice
• learning the tools in a non-threatening way
Adding Audio
Voicethread - 2 truths and a lie
What about active listening online?
• Paraphrasing
• Clarifying
• Restating
• Questioning
• Liking – the virtual nod
Scaffolds
• active listening
• asking good questions
• what does effective
feedback look like?
• tiptoeing back through the
work of others
• synthesis of ideas
photo courtesy of Donna Fry
Project Zero http://visiblethinkingpz.org
• Questioning
• Modeling an interest in ideas
• Constructing understanding
• Facilitating and clarifying
thinking
• Listening
• Documenting
What makes you say that?
And other elaboration triggers…
I agree with you because…
I disagree with you because…
Check…
I think…
I believe…
http://theconstructionzone.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/scaffolding-for-deep-understanding/
Have you thought about…
Maybe…
I am confused about…
Another explanation might be…
I don’t understand…
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