Make learning in a virtual world usefully social.
Practice collaboration.
A DTA as guide on the side.
Virtual worlds are inherently social. Planning can make the social activity educationally valuable.
Team planning in a virtual world
Practice collaboration in school?
- How do they do that?
- PBL with teams.
- When are they old enough to work in teams?
- Ask a Little League coach.
How do you teach collaboration?
- Create a situation in which students have an incentive to collaborate.
- Start with a team and a project.
- One or two people will wind up doing most of the work?
- Only if you leave all the management to the team.
- Add a DTA as coach and use it to track individual effort.
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design
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A DTA has time
- For detailed prompting and tracking.
- For reminding the team of what they need to be doing.
- And keeping track of what each team member is doing.
- The teacher then has time to supervise the DTA
How can the DTA coach?
- The requirements for effective teamwork are well known:
- Develop a plan and schedule.
- Assign action items.
- Track progress on each action item.
- Resolve problems as they appear.
Plan and Schedule
- The DTA provides the team with a planning form.
- The form may be partly completed for students with little experience.
- The form calls for a list of action items fitted to a class schedule.
Action items
- Each action item is assigned to a specific student.
- Each action item has specific delivery requirements (checklist)
- Above contents may be specified by teacher or team, depending on student skills.
- Progress is monitored by the teacher.
Action items: Inquiry and report PBL
- Inquiry-based learning
- Identify resources: Depending on grade level, the plan might recommend resources.
- Specify questions: Give the questions you think you can answer.
- Use a worksheet to tie each statement of fact to a source and a student.
- The DTA can keep track of each student's productivity on fact sourcing.
- (That productivity may affect the student's grade.)
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