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The Joy of Group Work
or not…
NYSCATE Annual Conference 2016
Paula Cancro
The College of Westchester
[email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulacancro
Agenda
• Still 21st Century??
• Collaboration and Communication
• Tools and Activities
Disclaimer
Remember to tell them about the notes!!!!!
The AMA 2012 Critical Skills Survey
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Effective communication
• Collaboration and team building
• Creativity and innovation
AMA Critical Skills Survey – 2012 www.amanet.org
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21
Century Learning Design
Knowledge
Construction
Skilled
Communication
Self-Regulation
Collaboration
ICT for Learning
Real-world
Problem
Solving and
Innovation
Did the student produce
extended communication? Was
the communication welldeveloped and organized
around a thesis?
Knowledge
Building
Skilled
Communication
Are students required to build
knowledge? Is that knowledge
interdisciplinary?
Collaboration
21st
Century
Learning
Design
Is the learning activity long
term? Do students plan
and assess their own work?
Self-Regulation
ICT for Learning
Are students required to
share responsibility and
make substantive
decisions with other
people?
Do students use ICT to
support knowledge
building? Is ICT
necessary to that
knowledge building?
Real World
Problem Solving
Does the learning activity require solving authentic,
real world problems? Are students’ solutions
implemented in the real world?
School and Workplace
• Critical thinking and problem
solving
• Effective communication
• Collaboration and team building
• Creativity and innovation
AMA
www.amanet.org
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Collaboration
Knowledge construction
Self-regulation
Real-world problem solving and
innovation
• Use of ICT (technology) for learning
• Skilled communication
21stCLD
Did the student
produce extended
communication? Was
the communication
well-developed and
organized around a
thesis?
Skilled
Communication
Collaboration
Are students
required to share
responsibility and
make substantive
decisions with other
people?
Collaboration
Are students required to work in pairs or
groups?
Do students have shared responsibility?
Do students
make
substantive
decisions
together?
Is students’ work interdependent?
YES:
NO:
Group members each research a different internal system
(e.g. circulation, digestion, etc.) of frogs. Students then
work together to dissect a frog and write a lab report
about the dissection, identifying frog parts and the systems
to which they belong. Students rely on each other's work in
order to successfully identify what they see during the
dissection.
Group members work together to research frogs, but each
student conducts their own dissection and writes their own lab
report. Students work together on the research component, but
the products do not require input or participation from others.
Students each use their own networked device to
contribute coordinate points that must collectively create
the shape of a star. Each student’s contribution is necessary so
the group can create the completed shape.
One student uses a device to plot coordinate points and create
a star shape, with input from group members. Only one student
is plotting coordinates; the others may contribute, but they could
also disengage without preventing the group from completing the
product.
Students create a tourist website presenting the history,
culture, attractions, and accommodations of their local
area. Each individual might create a different piece of the
overall website, but students need to work together to
determine how to organize the information to create the best
possible website.
Students each create a webpage about the history, culture,
attractions, or accommodations of their local area that will be
linked to the class homepage. Students do not have to strategize
together in any particular way.
Students use OneNote to create a diagram showing the
food chain in a vernal pond ecosystem. Each student
controls a particular species and students must work
together to place each species in its appropriate niche in
the food chain. Students must work with each other to
complete a comprehensive and accurate representation of the
food chain.
Students use OneNote to identify which species in the vernal
pond ecosystem are carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores, by
placing each species in the appropriate list. Any student can use
their mouse to move any species to any list; students do not need
to work together in any specific way.
YES:
NO:
Students create a tourist website Students each create a webpage
presenting the history, culture,
about the history, culture,
attractions, and accommodations attractions, or accommodations of
of their local area. Each individual their local area that will be linked to
might create a different piece of the the class homepage. Students do not
overall website, but students need to have to strategize together in any
work together to determine how to particular way.
organize the information to create
the best possible website.
Collaboration
Project Management and Leadership Pathways
http://www.p21.org/
www.pmief.org/
Project Management – makes it easy?????
TEEEEEEEAAAAAAMMMMM
WWWWWOOOOOORRRRRRKKKK
F2F and Online
What Is the Right Amount of Group Work in
School?
By Shannon Doyne January 17, 2012 (NY Times)
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/what-is-the-right-amount-of-groupwork-in-school/?_r=0
Group work — love it or hate it, it’s a regular part of the
school or work day for many of us. Do you enjoy
collaborating with your classmates on projects? Do
you learn better as part of a group or by working
independently? Do you prefer one style or the other?
Why?
Josh G
I personly hate working in groups. I hate working in
groups because theres always that one person that
distracts the group when they are trying to work. Also,
some people expect the one or two smart people to do
all the work for them. I do not mind working with a
partner, but I would want to pick said partner because I
would want someone to work well with. This is why I
hate partner groups.
erin November 16, 2015 ·
I have never been a fan of group work, and I believe that one of
the main reasons for this is that I care about my grades. I have
never been a fan of having other people in charge of my
grades/scoring. I think, however, that group discussions are a very
constructive and helpful in some situations. Group work is
beneficial for non-scoring assignments. I always find myself doing a
majority of the assignment, if not the whole assignment, by
myself. Also, I find that sometimes keeping group members on
track can be time consuming and take away from the task at hand.
Cheeki B. February 4, 2016
Group work is great!
Teamwork
Activity Ideas
Virtual Meetings
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WebEx – Freebie for 3
Anymeeting – up to 200
Google Hangouts –
Skype – Group Skype
Zoom
Pre or Post Work
•Your response to this should be about a page + (Word attachment)
•Please include your name, class, and term/year in the top left corner of the first page
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You are the leader of a virtual team that includes members who are in New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu,
London, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. You need to coordinate ways to have live meetings (virtual) and share
documents. You would like to choose a day and time for a weekly conference call to keep the project on
track. Choose a regular days) and time(s) for your meeting schedule.
In your proposed solution, include the following:
Explain your choices, Use the terms synchronous and asynchronous correctly and identify the specific
time zone and meeting time for each meeting participant.
How you will share information with those who cannot make the regular live meeting?
How will you keep the entire team up to date?
What is the responsibility of a team member who is scheduled to give a progress report, but cannot make
a meeting.?
What problems might arise with communications and keeping this geographically dispersed team up to
date at any time?
As project manager of this group, what are some of your specific responsibilities
Hints to Students
These websites (and there are others) provide a way for you to view
multiple locations and time zones
Link to World Time Zone (current time around the world)
Link to Time and Date (look for link to meeting planner) page
If you are not familiar with synchronous web conferencing, look up the
terms and check out YouTube for "how to" videos.
Ideas for products to research - find more
Web conference products: Zoom, Webex, GoToMeeting
Tools for collaborative document work: Google Docs, OneDrive
Every Video Conference Call
Collaboration
•MS OneDrive and Apps
•Google Drive and Apps
The current Project: CW Live
• Notes from class brainstorm:
• Filming
• Interviewing
• Come up with segments
• Video editing
• Writers – scripts
• Location scout
• Social Media release and
individual rights to post
• Plans to make it go forward
• (skit) CW Reality????
• Flash Mob
• Additional Resources
• Other clubs
• Digital Media (possibly for editing)
Global Collaboration and Communication
http://flatconnectionsglobalproject.net/
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/the-world-is-flat
Edit document
https://1drv.ms/w/s!AsseFAnNhRr2grUM3R49hszqj7NxNQ
Some Resources
• https://onedrive.live.com/
• https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/
• http://anymeeting.com/
• https://zoom.us/
• http://www.timebridge.com/
• www.doodle.com (works without www)
• https://zoom.us/
A few additional Resources
• https://education.microsoft.com/
• http://www.newsactivist.com/ – an issues discussions forum – mostly
college classes – a lot in the US and Canada, but also other countries
And finally…
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsseFAnNhRr2grULWx1-3ln3TuYt1w
Paula Cancro
[email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulacancro
Twitter: pcancrocw