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4 ways we designed collaborative learning spaces

eSchool News

In our English literacy content space, for example, the collaborative learning spaces need more of a “library feel,” complete with sofa-type furniture and soft seating. The vision was for students to come in and have Socratic seminars and maybe discuss a passage.

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We Run a Hybrid School. Here’s How We’re Adapting Our Schedule for the Times.

Edsurge

The past few months have shown us the true extent of the flexibility and resilience of our model as we plan for students to return after summer break, both virtually and eventually in small groups on campus, as well as design wraparound supports across a variety of formats. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

During the second semester of the program, each student takes a seminar structured around a major research project, sometimes with one of the same professors, sometimes not. Our first-year programs examine fundamental human questions; promote collaborative learning; and develop reading, writing, speaking and research skills.

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20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking

TeachThought - Learn better.

A mix of the “Learning Labs” approach and the “Google Room” may work well. This approach takes a mix of forms–rows, groups, semi-circled tables. This is physical grouping, but based on areas of differentiation–background knowledge, reading level, an individual skill, etc. One Group + 4 Rows.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

The technology may provide a solution that allows the continuation of activities that promote deeper learning. An example might include the collaborative activity Chalk Talk. This task requires students to huddle in a group and write ideas on a large sheet of paper. Such a process can be done both in and out of the classroom.

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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

Edsurge

Once my course materials were online, I built out the learning experiences within those groupings and began to flesh them out—first on paper, and then using the program Piktochart , an infographic builder tool to design the visual. Learning journey for 8th grade geography built on Piktochart in 2011.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

Among this group, there were some—like Hiawatha, Gestalt and Citizens of the World (a charter network with six schools in three regions)—that used this opportunity to radically rethink the way they are operating at least one school over the coming year. Collaborative Learning It wouldn’t be an educational exercise without homework.