Week 5: 2/3 - 2/9 - A: Reading to Facilitate

Week 5: 2/3 - 2/9 - A: Reading to Facilitate

My most valuable comment was my only comment. As this was more of a personal suggestion discussion there was not much interaction between students. What I did see is a common them around teams and group interaction as a key motivator for teaching.

Maria and David both spoke of the teamed approach and I feel that with the help of their thoughts it helped me to formalize my comment:
Not sure of the term but the round robin approach I would call it. Where we break into small groups of 4 or 5 and
each participant has an allotted time to make there initial post. You then follow the pecking order and you post
new thoughts to the original question. Once the first round is completed then you circulate one more time and
allow people to respond. I like the idea and I think this can work with Engage. I think we can make a modification
to this by running concurrent session so that we can draw more of a crowd. After the 2 circulation's we could then
merge the chat groups into a threaded discussion for all groups to collaborate and see different perspectives. I
have not mentioned the technique to my group yet but I will and we hope can use it.

Now the information that I provided is more of that forced participation but it does run the common goal of group teach. I think Bender was successful in teaching all of us that in order for our discussion to work or at least for us to gain anything from them, the group needs to collaborate.