This sequence of activities and assignments offers an example of how to scaffold student learning in order to encourage deep engagement with texts, problem-based writing, and simulations.
Category: Resources
This resource offers some helpful tips for facilitating online discussions.
This handout outlines a process that guides students through the the steps of creating a collaboratively written essay.
These sample activities involve rigorous close reading by way of collaborative annotation online.
This resource offers a range of ideas for using Twitter as a teaching tool.
Some tips for using HelloTalk, an app that is useful–particularly in language classes.
This resource includes a range of tips and strategies that are helpful in the context of independent study and correspondence courses.
This assignment invites students to create questions based on a shared reading and then respond to each other’s questions.
This weekly assignment invites students to generate a discussion question and a (provisional) claim about a shared reading.
Drawn from the Lexicon of Migrations network course, this resource outlines a peer review session for a collaboratively produced dictionary of “Key Words.”