Ever pose a question during a virtual meeting and all you hear in response are crickets? I'm sure I'm not the only one. So then, because we think it's less pressure, we ask for a response in the chat. And that potentially solicits a few more responses. In the article, How to Spruce Up Your Zoom Chat Game, Melissa Dinwiddie suggests that we are overloading students, asking them to think, read, process, and write in a short amount of time. Not to mention that we're asking for this to all happen with the onlooking eyes and listening ears of their peers. The waterfall chat structure is an easy way to engage more students in the discussion and relieve some of that pressure.
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Four Corners is a great strategy to get kids moving and communicating. While, our students are physically moving around the room, we can use Jamboard to mimic this learning structure. The teacher poses a question and rather than pick a cerner of the room, students can put their sticky note in the appropriate corner of a shared jam! Check out today's Minute Monday to find out how! Take this strategy a step further and move students into breakout rooms based on the corner they chose and allow them to discuss their reasons for their answer. Have them create an elevator pitch to convince others to move to their corner. Bring students back to the main room where one person presents the groups elevator pitch and allow students one more time to move their sticky notes.
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