A great deal of time was spent this week brainstorming and planning our Global Twitter Chat #hana62.
Eventually we came up with a list of tasks.
One of the key elements of project-based learning is allowing for and learning from failure, so I thought this would be a good time to anticipate what might go wrong during our chat. Learners first wrote their thoughts on failure in their language notebooks and then
were organized into small groups to plan for failure.
Their first task was to think about everything that might go wrong during our twitter chat. They did a fantastic job on this. They identified technical problems and problems associated with poor planning.
They also demonstrated insight: a nazi supporter could turn up or we might activate bad memories.
Once lists were completed students shared their ideas with the class. They then returned to their sheets and checked off the ones that we could anticipate and plan for. Those are marked by check marks. Note, they even planned for a blackout - we could bring a generator!
They were left with the ones out of their control and we discussed how we would handle those on the day.
For inappropriate tweets, we learned how to block and report for spam. We also discussed having to abandon the chat if it doesn't go well. And that's ok. This is real world learning. We don't know what will happen, but we do know that we are certainly going to learn something on that day!
Eventually we came up with a list of tasks.
One of the key elements of project-based learning is allowing for and learning from failure, so I thought this would be a good time to anticipate what might go wrong during our chat. Learners first wrote their thoughts on failure in their language notebooks and then
were organized into small groups to plan for failure.
Their first task was to think about everything that might go wrong during our twitter chat. They did a fantastic job on this. They identified technical problems and problems associated with poor planning.
They also demonstrated insight: a nazi supporter could turn up or we might activate bad memories.
Once lists were completed students shared their ideas with the class. They then returned to their sheets and checked off the ones that we could anticipate and plan for. Those are marked by check marks. Note, they even planned for a blackout - we could bring a generator!
For inappropriate tweets, we learned how to block and report for spam. We also discussed having to abandon the chat if it doesn't go well. And that's ok. This is real world learning. We don't know what will happen, but we do know that we are certainly going to learn something on that day!
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