This is a follow-up to a previous post.
Yesterday when my grade 7's were asked what assumptions they might make about their Digital Citizenship projects that could lead to problems, most could easily identify problems they might encounter, but few could articulate the assumptions that could lead to problems. Today we worked on this skill.
I conducted a brief whole class lesson where the first two examples below were shown and then students were partnered off to identify the rest. This is such a crucial element for learning. Students need the opportunity to talk and practise their thinking out loud. Most were still unable to articulate the assumptions. Many simply listed additional problems. It was only when pulled into small flexible discussion groups that students were able to grasp and then identify the assumptions. I encouraged their thinking by saying, "This is the problem, what might they have assumed that would lead to this problem.?" It took lots of discussion, several examples and much modeling of language use to get them to use the terminology and phrase their thinking correctly. By the end of class most students "got it".
"They must have assumed ..."
"They might have assumed ..."
"They could have assumed ..."
Yesterday when my grade 7's were asked what assumptions they might make about their Digital Citizenship projects that could lead to problems, most could easily identify problems they might encounter, but few could articulate the assumptions that could lead to problems. Today we worked on this skill.
I conducted a brief whole class lesson where the first two examples below were shown and then students were partnered off to identify the rest. This is such a crucial element for learning. Students need the opportunity to talk and practise their thinking out loud. Most were still unable to articulate the assumptions. Many simply listed additional problems. It was only when pulled into small flexible discussion groups that students were able to grasp and then identify the assumptions. I encouraged their thinking by saying, "This is the problem, what might they have assumed that would lead to this problem.?" It took lots of discussion, several examples and much modeling of language use to get them to use the terminology and phrase their thinking correctly. By the end of class most students "got it".
"They must have assumed ..."
"They might have assumed ..."
"They could have assumed ..."
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