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Session 35: TLO #5: U2L3 - The Need for Addressing

60 minutes

lesson exploration

Purpose

This is our first layer of the internet that is introduced to participants.

Objectives

  • Participants understand how to make choices and use strategies to increase student engagement at different points in a lesson

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Full Cohort
  • Table Groups (3-4)

Facilitator Supplies and Prep:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Intro and Lesson (41 minutes)

Debrief (19 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Intro and Lesson (41 minutes)

Producer Tip

You should have information from the teaching group on how they would like to handle breakout rooms. Verify that the information is correct during the break prior to the session

(0 minutes) Teaching Group Set Up

Teaching group sets up during break.

Producer: Temporarily give the teaching group Co-Host privileges so that they can move in between breakout rooms.

Producer: If using breakout rooms, set up the participant rooms, a “Teacher” room, and a “Facilitator” room

(1 minute) Reinforce Roles

Remind participants of what it means to be a learner or a teacher. Have them put their hats on before handing it over to the teaching group.

Facilitator Tip

To make teachers feel more comfortable, it may be a good idea to turn off your camera throughout the lesson and/or change your name to “Facilitator - Ignore Me”. This can be helpful while moving through breakout rooms so “students” do not look to you for answers.

Facilitator Tip

If breakout rooms are used, it is important to get a sense of what is happening in them. As you move through the rooms, make sure that you are not providing input. If you are asked for it, remind teachers using chat that you are not a teacher right now and they can use the call for help button if needed.

Producer Tip

Just as with facilitators in breakout rooms, you may need to act as a “messenger” for the teachers. If a group presses the “call for help” button, you will need to find the teachers and inform them that a group is asking for help.

(40 minutes) Lesson

Facilitator Instructions

Be attentive to what is happening during the lesson as you select your debrief goals, reflection prompts, and discussion prompts. During the lesson, it is recommended that you communicate with your co-facilitator to share what you are seeing in the lesson and develop a shared understanding of the goal of the debrief for the lesson. You can communicate through Slack or through passing notes to one another. You are looking for the teaching group to demonstrate the “Essential practice” and “Teaching group decisions” identified in the debrief below.

Lesson Plan Link

Lesson Slides Link

Lesson Overview

Students complete a scheduling challenge three times, once unplugged, and twice on the Internet Simulator, to explore the need for addressing messages online. Students first complete a challenge where they are allowed to talk to one another to fill out a weekly schedule. They then move on to a version of the Internet Simulator where all of their messages are "broadcast" or sent to everyone in the same simulator room. This challenge forces students to develop shared rules for communicating to complete the scheduling activity a second and then third time. The wrap up helps students connect their experiences to real-life rules, or protocols, used on the Internet for addressing messages.

Debrief (19 minutes)

Producer Tip

You will need a breakout room for the teaching group to debrief while the main group does their reflections.

Then you will need breakout groups of 3-4 people for the group debrief for ~5 minutes

Debrief process reminder:

  • (~5 minutes) Start with projecting the reflection question(s) on the board or writing it on chart paper. Have the participants who acted as learners reflect on the reflection prompt(s) individually and then share their thoughts with a partner.
    • While the room is reflecting and sharing with a partner, have the teaching group discuss and be prepared to share their “Choices, Advice, and Takeaways”.
  • When the teaching group is ready, have them share their Choices, Advice, and Takeaways with the room to start the debrief.
  • After they have shared, applaud the teaching group and lead the group discussion using the discussion prompts. Once again, post discussion prompts to help keep track of the conversation.

Suggested Debrief Plan
To Watch for During the Lesson Essential
Practices
Teachers encourage engagement and discovery at all points of the lesson - unplugged, plugged, and discussions.
Potential Teaching Group Decisions
  • Teachers manage transitions by being clear with directions.
  • Teachers allow for a certain amount of productive confusion and intervene on a group or individual level when the confusion is unproductive (not working toward understanding the problem or solution of addressing).
  • Teachers use class-wide discussions as sense-making opportunities with the content.
If the essential practices, listed above, are present in the lesson we recommend the following for your debrief:
Debrief Direction Topic Student engagement
Goal Teachers understand how to make choices and use strategies to increase student engagement at different points in a lesson.
To reach this goal, consider using the following reflection and discussion prompts:
Debrief Suggestions Reflection
Prompt
As a learner, draw a graph of your engagement over time during this lesson. Consider different points in the lesson: the warm-up, the unplugged scheduling task, scheduling in the internet simulator, formalizing the rules, and the wrap-up conversation.

Share your graph with a partner at a different table. Discuss:
  • Are they the same or different?
  • What are points of high engagement in this lesson? What made them highly engaging to you?
Discussion
Prompts
  • What portions of this lesson will be more or less engaging for your students? Why do you think that?
  • In your classroom, what does the “ideal” engagement graph look like for this lesson?

FACILITATOR NOTE:
As you discuss this prompt, look for places to draw out the decisions for this lesson, listed above.