Ideas for Supporting Ideas for Supporting Collective Intelligence in Collective Intelligence in

the Classroomthe Classroom

Amary RiveraAmary Rivera

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Create a Class BlogCreate a Class Blog

• Create a class blog where students Create a class blog where students can engage in lively discussionscan engage in lively discussions

• Provide questions in the blog that Provide questions in the blog that require students to work require students to work collaboratively to answercollaboratively to answer

• Here’s a link to a short video that will Here’s a link to a short video that will help you create a class blog:help you create a class blog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tYloFsS_tY

Create a fan fiction siteCreate a fan fiction site

• Create a fan fiction site where students Create a fan fiction site where students can work together to write alternate can work together to write alternate endings to a story, to create character endings to a story, to create character biography cards and design the biography cards and design the character’s imagecharacter’s image

• Encourage students, in teams, to upload Encourage students, in teams, to upload sketches of the setting for a storysketches of the setting for a story

• Need ideas? Visit Need ideas? Visit http://www.fanfiction.net/http://www.fanfiction.net/

Class WikisClass Wikis

• Create a class wiki where students can work Create a class wiki where students can work collaboratively to share images, experiences and collaboratively to share images, experiences and important facts about their culture or country of originimportant facts about their culture or country of origin

• Encourage students to work together to create a Encourage students to work together to create a glossary of important scientific terms and illustrate glossary of important scientific terms and illustrate themthem

• Use the wiki to record experiment data. Ask all groups Use the wiki to record experiment data. Ask all groups to share data from the weekly science experiment and to share data from the weekly science experiment and ask students to look at the collective data and together ask students to look at the collective data and together reach a conclusion for the experiment.reach a conclusion for the experiment.

• Don’t know how to create a class wiki? View this video Don’t know how to create a class wiki? View this video to find out: to find out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NRbbskf3cAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NRbbskf3cA

Don’t have Internet access? Don’t have Internet access? Create a Class Discussion Create a Class Discussion BoardBoard• Ask students to vote on one television show Ask students to vote on one television show

they’d like to watch and use a class they’d like to watch and use a class discussion board to post reactions, make discussion board to post reactions, make predictions, and answer questions from the predictions, and answer questions from the series after working together to compare series after working together to compare thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Use a bulletin thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Use a bulletin board, small pieces of recycled paper and board, small pieces of recycled paper and push pins and allow twenty minutes at the push pins and allow twenty minutes at the beginning of the day for students to post beginning of the day for students to post their responses, read the thoughts of others, their responses, read the thoughts of others, and to discuss as a class.and to discuss as a class.

Design projects where students Design projects where students work collaboratively to investigate work collaboratively to investigate a topic and share knowledgea topic and share knowledge• Use Jigsaw projects oftenUse Jigsaw projects often• Jigsaw is a cooperative learning technique that Jigsaw is a cooperative learning technique that

reduces racial conflict among school children, reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience. learning experience.

• In a Jigsaw students on each team are assigned In a Jigsaw students on each team are assigned different roles. Students can turn to online different roles. Students can turn to online knowledge communities or other classmates with knowledge communities or other classmates with similar roles in order to complete their part of the similar roles in order to complete their part of the project. Students then go back to their groups project. Students then go back to their groups and report on what they learned.and report on what they learned.

• For more information see For more information see http://www.jigsaw.org/http://www.jigsaw.org/

““Experts for a Week”Experts for a Week”

• Ask students to draw topics out of a hat and Ask students to draw topics out of a hat and become experts for a week in the topic become experts for a week in the topic selectedselected

• In order to become experts, students need to In order to become experts, students need to find an online knowledge community where find an online knowledge community where they can share their expertise and learn new they can share their expertise and learn new informationinformation

• Experts can share the knowledge they Experts can share the knowledge they gathered with classmates at the end of the gathered with classmates at the end of the weekweek