Connecting to the World Digitally and Collaboratively
1. Connecting to the World
Building a Collaborative Classroom
Cheryl Lykowski
Discovery Educator Network Guru
Michigan’s DEN Leadership Council – Chair
Discovery STAR Educator
2013
14. *How might this
work?
*How might this
benefit my students?
*How might this add
to my instruction?
15. Global Awareness, according to
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills,
includes:
Using 21st century skills to understand and
address global issues.
Learning from and working collaboratively
with individuals representing diverse
cultures, religions and lifestyles in a spirit of
mutual respect and open dialogue in
personal, work and community contexts.
Understanding other nations and cultures,
including the use of non-English languages.
16. Global awareness is
necessary because:
Students can no longer live isolated
from the world.
Students need to be global citizens.
Students must learn about diversity,
languages, cultures, traditions and
points of view from others.
24. Role of the
collaborative learner:
Greeter
Question asker
Photographer
Videographer
Scheduler
*adapted from Silvia Tolisano
25. Role of the
collaborative learner:
Backchannel Info Station
writers
Live Bloggers Timer
Google Earth Data writer
Mapper
*adapted from Silvia Tolisano
26. Roles
Live Google
Blogging Earth &
Google
Maps
Back
Channel
Interviewers
28. Roles
Greeter ~ Greets the partner school. Makes initial introduction.
Question asker ~ Asks specific questions for data collection.
Photographer ~ Responsible for documenting connection with still
images.
Videographer ~ Responsible for documenting connection with video.
Scheduler ~Responsible for adding Date & Time of planned Skype
connection to embedded Google Calendar.
*adapted from Silvia Tolisano
29. Roles
Backchannel writers ~ Documenting conversation, questions,
answers and classroom happenings during the connection on a
backchannel chat.
Live Bloggers ~ Blogs Skype call live to classroom blog.
Google Earth ~ Finds location of Skype partner and measures
distance in miles & kilometers.
Mapper ~ Responsible for adding placemark of Skype partner’s
location to embedded Google Map on classroom blog.
Info Station ~Responsible to search for any data question on the
spot. Verifies any questionable information as well.
Timer ~ Responsible for noting time Skype call started and ended as
well as calculating elapsed time.
*adapted from Silvia Tolisano
30. Roles
Data Entry ~ Responsible for adding data collected into embedded
Google form on classroom blog. Ex. distance miles/km, temperature in
F/C.
Word Problem Creator ~ Creates a math word problem
from data, questions and answers collected during Skype call.
Backchannel Cleanup ~ Responsible to save backchannel
chat as a word document and cleaning up duplicate comments and mark
questionable statements to be verified.
*adapted from Silvia Tolisano
