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How does this challenge help prepare students to participate in a global society?
I think that creating a #hashtag for everyday is a great way for students to use key vocabulary that is being covered inside and helping to make connections outside our community--extending students thinking about learning beyond the classroom walls. This extends and expands their thinking about the content to a global society. This is important because if students are getting and receiving feedback from peers from around the word they are more likely to put out a better product than just something that their teacher looks at. Providing #hashtags also gives students new ideas and ways to approach the same content from a global prescriptive. I would like to try this in my classroom-and #hashtags provide an easy way for me to track my students progress!
How do these teachers empower collaboration and innovation?
Teachers serve as facilitators for our student's learning. Therefore creating #dailyclassroomhashtags is a great way to increase student collaboration via the web and it also extends the collaboration beyond the classroom. Most all of my students have a cell phone and they are checking it all day long to see if someone commented on their post (either through text or a website). This feedback they receive from there peers either validates their post or gets them to rethink their post based on the new ideas and views from their peers. The same thing can also be true for our students and them learning the content that is specific to my classroom. Exposing students to this peer feedback offers all our students a different viewpoint and can help to spur innovation and creativity to produce something new and unique to get "noticed" online.
How does this challenge help prepare students to participate in a global society?
I think that creating a #hashtag for everyday is a great way for students to use key vocabulary that is being covered inside and helping to make connections outside our community--extending students thinking about learning beyond the classroom walls. This extends and expands their thinking about the content to a global society. This is important because if students are getting and receiving feedback from peers from around the word they are more likely to put out a better product than just something that their teacher looks at. Providing #hashtags also gives students new ideas and ways to approach the same content from a global prescriptive. I would like to try this in my classroom-and #hashtags provide an easy way for me to track my students progress!
How do these teachers empower collaboration and innovation?
Teachers serve as facilitators for our student's learning. Therefore creating #dailyclassroomhashtags is a great way to increase student collaboration via the web and it also extends the collaboration beyond the classroom. Most all of my students have a cell phone and they are checking it all day long to see if someone commented on their post (either through text or a website). This feedback they receive from there peers either validates their post or gets them to rethink their post based on the new ideas and views from their peers. The same thing can also be true for our students and them learning the content that is specific to my classroom. Exposing students to this peer feedback offers all our students a different viewpoint and can help to spur innovation and creativity to produce something new and unique to get "noticed" online.