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Learning activity

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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Pedagogy
Collaborative Learning
Learning outcome
Collaboration
Prep time
Low (<10 min)
Activity type
Learning Activity
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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:
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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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Activity setup

Activity stepsActivity goalsTools usedIn this activity
Getting organized! Selecting the topic for the project

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Activity steps

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

Activity goals

This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:
  1. Instructions: Read and modify the instructions to adapt to the needs of your project.
  2. Discussion posts: Edit the post to include a model response that makes sense with your project.
  3. Peer discussions: Allow students to discuss the different proposals with the goal to get to a decision on the topic
  4. Valuable contributions: Students will send the chosen topic to the instructor as a “valuable contribution”
  5. Grading: Instructors grade and publish the grades as needed.

Learning Activities Used

Discussion on Work

Engaging online discussions to foster meaningful interactions

Discussion on Topic

Meaningful learning interactions to nurture critical and reflective thinking

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.

Notable settings

Anonymity
Reflection
Grading

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