Turning
my Open Educational Project into a collaborative one
Hello everyone!
In the last post, I showed you the prototype of my educational
project. For this challenge it would be necessary for us to have a look to my latest post .Today, we will see how we can enrich our project.
In order to enrich it, we should make it
collaborative. First of all, I want to explain to you what collaborative work
means. Cooperative and collaborative
learning is a method of teaching and learning in which children team together
to create a meaningful project.
In order to make the project more collaborative, we
will focus on three types of collaboration movements:
- Collaboration
in the classroom through cooperative learning.
- Collaboration
out of the classroom.
- Collaboration
back to the classroom.
So,
I followed the previous steps about collaboration and I change my activities
into the following ones:
·
Collaboration within the classroom
In order to carry out activities that involve the
collaboration and cooperation of the students, I have changed some of the
activities that I had planned in the project. Some of the activities I planned
were individual. As a result, I have changed these activities so that all tasks
are collaborative. The number of students will depend on the activity to be
carried out. They can work in small groups of three or four students, in pairs
or even the whole class. The members of the groups will not always be the
same; they will change and mingle with other groups.
Therefore, the students will carry out all the
activities planned in each session in a collaborative way. The final mission
will consist in the creation of a display in pairs of a vertebrate animal,
indicating its main characteristics. Afterwards, each team will present and share with their classmates their work.
·
Collaboration out of the classroom
To collaborate
outside the classroom, the teacher will be in charge of forming small groups of
different classrooms.
My students will be
divided into pairs and each pair will join another pair from different
classrooms.
Each group will
have a several images with different types of vertebrates. They will have to
classify each animal according to its characteristics (herbivores, omnivores,
carnivores, viviparous, oviparous). Each group will have to share their
opinions and thoughts and should classify each animal taking into account its
characteristics.
·
Collaboration back to the classroom
Throughout
the activities and task that students have done, they have to reflect on what
they have learned. For that, in pairs, students will have to decide what
activity they liked most and explain the reason. After exchanging their
opinions, in pairs, they should share with the world their knowledge about vertebrates.
To do this, each pair will write in the collaborative blog showing the final
work they have done and also sharing the Knowledge and information that they
have learned throughout the sessions. In this way, they can share with their
peers, teachers, and parents the work that they have done and the knowledge
that they have acquired.
I created a flyer to summarize the
change of my educational project. Here you have it:
Procedure:
Before the challenge, I had to do some research. In addition, I also read
information about cooperative and collaborative learning and how to create a
collaborative project.
After reading all the information about this topic, I have created a visual
metaphor to summarize the three types of collaborative movements that I will
use in my project. For this, I saw different pages, but in the end I
chose an application that is called
Smore and I also used another one that is called Canva to create my visual metaphor.
After creating my visual metaphor, I wrote the article in the blog with the
purpose of explaining and showing you the transformation of my project
prototype into a collaborative project.
Self-reflection:
From my point of view, this task has been very useful,
since it has encouraged me to carry out some research on collaborative
learning. Through this task, I have realized the importance of collaborative
work in the teaching-learning process of the student. This challenge gave me
the opportunity to learn how to enrich my educational project by turning it
into a collaborative one.
On the other hand, this challenge has made me think
again in the planning of my project and it encouraged me to learn more about
collaborative learning.
I hope you like
the way I've tried to enrich my educational project!