Learning ACTIVITIES

Getting organized! Selecting the topic for the project

Foster student automony and team work by encouraging them to decide on their assignment topics

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Created by:

Javier Gregori

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Pedagogy

Collaborative Learning

Learning outcome

Collaboration

Prep time

Low (<10 min)

Learning tool

Discussion

Why this learning activity?

Learning activities targeting high-order skills like this one can help you activate students more effectively. This learning activity will help you with:

Communicate effectively

Students can share and defend a topic proposal through a model response.

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Engage in discussions

Students engage in meaningful conversations and discussions to reach an agreement.

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Reach an agreement

Students work with each other to come up with a final topic for their project

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Getting organized! Selecting the topic for the project

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Activity steps

Instructions: Read and modify the instructions to adapt to the needs of your project.
Discussion posts: Edit the post to include a model response that makes sense with your project.
Peer discussions: Allow students to discuss the different proposals with the goal to get to a decision on the topic
Valuable contributions: Students will send the chosen topic to the instructor as a “valuable contribution”
Grading: Instructors grade and publish the grades as needed.

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In this activity

Depending on the group dynamics, you may choose to make contributions anonymous using the Submitter Anonymity setting. Use this if you have a small number of students leading al decisions and would like to give voice to other contributions
In addition to the response modelling, you may also choose to enable the Discussion coach AI feature. This will guide students towards writing better post and feedback.