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How do you make Collective Learning engaging and accessible to students?

Kathy Hays

One of the main focal points in Unit 6 is the importance of collective learning and symbolic language. After all, it’s the combination of the    human feats that makes humans different from other species.  There are some great activities including Collective Learning Snap Judgment, the Culture and Collective Learning Debate and Why Does Language Matter? (it’s found in WHP, but fits well in this unit) to students get students engaged and actively learning. 

  • What is your favorite OER Project resources to introduce students to the concept of Collective Learning?
  • How do you teach Collective Learning so all students understand the concept and are engaged?

Share your thoughts and questions about Collective Learning in the comments below. 

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  • Why Does Language Matter is my favorite activity on this topic and a create WHP/BHP cross-over. I have my students generate a list of random words on a shared google doc (a feat of Collective Learning in itself!) and then set out to respond to the questions (i.e. How should we kill that mammoth?) Students love it especially when I actually convince them that it's ok to throw grammar out the window and "talk like a caveman"... and the results are usually hilarious. 

    Speaking of crossover with WHP, I like to pair this activity with the language networks video.  It's great to see students reflecting on their own language networks and how they can relate this topic to their own identity and background. 

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  • Why Does Language Matter is my favorite activity on this topic and a create WHP/BHP cross-over. I have my students generate a list of random words on a shared google doc (a feat of Collective Learning in itself!) and then set out to respond to the questions (i.e. How should we kill that mammoth?) Students love it especially when I actually convince them that it's ok to throw grammar out the window and "talk like a caveman"... and the results are usually hilarious. 

    Speaking of crossover with WHP, I like to pair this activity with the language networks video.  It's great to see students reflecting on their own language networks and how they can relate this topic to their own identity and background. 

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