Every school should cultivate a safe online community that develops compassionate and democratic citizens. To do so, teachers must provide structured time and purpose for online student collaboration. They should also establish clear behavioral expectations, monitor discussions to support learning and participation, and help students understand the permanence of their digital footprints.

1. Building a Safe Online Community
Every school should be a model home, a complete
community actively developing future compassionate
citizens capable of creating, leading and contributing
to the kind of democratic communities - in which we all
long to live.
— Jeanne Gibbs http://tribes.com/

2. What makes community

3. Your physical classroom reflects
your online classroom
Ask
yourself
Valley Library (Oregon State
University)
What makes this classroom such a good
classroom?
What can I do to make it an even better
classroom?
As the teacher, what do I need to know and
understand about this classroom?
Adapted from
How we formed our community Plu_Plu
Becky Burnette

4. ·As teachers we need to provide time for
students to work together. Students
need time above and beyond the
Virginia
listening to teacher or doing research.
Guard
Public
Affairs
Just time to talk and discuss.
thomasfj
Provide a purpose. Now that students have
time reserved for them they need a purpose use
for that time.

5. Most adults have had the experience of being on a "bad" team.
Perhaps the team was unclear regarding its purpose, or hidden
agendas emerged, or an individual dominated the discussion,
or members were untrusting of one another, or the group did
not feel it had the authority to take needed action after making
decisions. Psychologist Robert Sternberg (1996) contends that
such groups have low "group IQ." He argues that while a
group can be no "smarter" than the sum of the strengths of
individual members, it can be "dumber" if its internal
workings don’t allow members to share their talents.
Taking on loneliness
By Rick DuFour
Journal of Staff Development, Winter 1999 (Vol. 20, No. 1)

6. Why Cooperative Learning
Researchers have discovered that learning
is an active process in which the student
needs an opportunity to use,
to experiment or
try out,
to play with,
to make sense of
new knowledge.
Making Small Groups Productive
Issues in Restructuring Schools
r3v || cls
Chris - sillicon valley, USA

7. Constructive
individual feedback is
critical not simply to
certify the level of
student success, but
more importantly, to
stimulate mental
activity in processing
and making sense of
knowledge.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Making Small Groups Productive
Issues in Restructuring Schools

8. To stimulate further inquiry, if they are to
learn, they need meaningful interaction
with a teacher or peers about progress in
their work
Making Small Groups Productive
Issues in Restructuring Schools
ToGa Wanderings

9. Positive Rules
· We will be on time and
prepared with all necessary
materials.
· Everyone is expected to
participate by sharing ideas,
concerns, etc.
· We will limit our
discussion to the learning at
hand.
· We will reach decisions
by consensus after all
opinions have been heard.
· We will maintain an
atmosphere of mutual ransomtech
Making Small Groups Productive
respect. Issues in Restructuring Schools

10. When students are finished with team work they must show
evidence of learning by:
AUTHENTIC EVIDENCE OF
STUDENTS’ ATTAINMENT OF
ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES
C. McInnis-Bowers , Rollins College And E. Byron Chew,
Birmingham-Southern College
AAC&U 2010 Annual Conference and Meeting
January 21, 2010 Washington, D.C.
Wesley Fryer
· Authentic projects
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/howdoyoudoit.htm

11. Summation of discussion
Kelly-Ann's Pics!

12. Creation of artifacts
twid
Todd Dailey - Santa Clara,
CA, United States
jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson -
Menlo Park, USA

13. Apply learning in new context
joannamkay
Jo Kay - Wollongong,
Australia

14. Reflective thinking
giulia.forsythe
Giulia Forsythe

15. Ken Whytock
Ken Whytock - Drumbo, Canada

16. Complex instruction (CI)
Is one way of boosting
Higher Ordered Thinking Skills.
Making Small Groups Productive
Issues in Restructuring Schools

17. Bolster students of low status by identifying
multiple abilities.
By Nasser NouriNasser Nouri

18. Raise the expectations for competence
marynbtol
Toledo, OH, USA

19. Develop student responsibility for each others’
performance and learning
By C.M.C.M. Gonzalez

20. Promote higher order thinking
deichgnu

21. How is this done in real life?

22. When discussing appropriate
classroom behavior include
appropriate online behavior.
By factoryjoeChris Messina

23. Be clear to students that technology makes it
EASIER for you the teacher to track who is
participating and who isn’t (This is also a great
hint that cyber bullying will be much more
difficult).
By
abracapocus_pocuscadabra
Andrea Roberts

24. Digital footprint
By ransomtechSteve Ransom
Image provided by tunnelarmr used under a Creative Commons
licensewww.flickr.com/photos/tunnelarmr/2293746022/
Visual quotation inspired by this NY Times article:
www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/spring-break-gets-tamer-as-...

25. Can Facebook tell you who this is? Germany thinks they shouldn't.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/technology/germans-reopen-facebook-privacy-inquiry.html

26. Give students time to practice

27. Decide What is important
• Yes you do need to have some control of the forum
for discussion
• Many collaborative tools allow multiple users - how
will you monitor the chat functions?
o How necessary is it to monitor all communications
o Do you monitor all communications in class
discussions
• If students choose to use a tool you don't know
anything about fine, but they are on their own.
• Does everyone need to use a school computer
o can they share a single computer
o can student use devices brought from home