When I was first introduced to Diigo, about one year ago, I felt it was overwhelming and
too much to try to keep up with. I figured I would just stick with my
traditional bookmarking, pasting links in lesson plans, and posting links for
students on Edmodo. This worked ok for me for a bit, yet as my school implemented
BYOD for all middle and high school students, my needs of sharing links and information
on the internet changed. I found myself in need of a way to share a variety of sites
and highlight specific information for my students. Currently we have way too
many links on Edmodo and Google Docs, and I now see how this can all be cleaned up
using Diigo.
Diigo will allow for myself to share information with students,
students to gather and organize their own findings, as well as share and collaborate
with one another. What more could you ask for?
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I am very
excited to establish class groups and use Diigo to share many more resource
with my students to help them study, review, and provide enrichment for topics in which they
need extra support, a higher level challenge, or just a different explanation.
I will guide
the students through setting up an account, and provide them with simple
starter activities and discussions, such as what we just practiced in this
course. Diigo will allow student research to be more efficient, organized, and less
either: copying and pasting chunks of information to a massive separate document
or excessive printing. Neither of these things ever work out too well for my middle
schoolers.
Instead, I
foresee homework assignments such as, “research a proof of the Pythagorean
Theorem.” Student will be instructed to post their findings on the Diigo group,
including a description of the type of proof or type of visual representation.
Students will then view each other’s links, create comments (noting similarities
and differences between the different types of the proofs) and spend time
exploring other students’ findings on the Pythagorean Theorem.
As I have said before, Diigo can be a very,
very focused search tool. I want to help the students in my class discover, use,
and value this tool. I can’t wait to get started with Diigo in my class!
-Lexi
I love the possibility of math homework being a collaborative research problem! What a great way to have your students work collaboratively in an online math setting. Brilliant idea, Miss Lexi.
ReplyDeleteAwesome ideas, Lexi! I think your mathematicians will be fascinated to learn even more math with you by using this simple organizational tool. I look forward to coming into your classroom and seeing Diigo in action.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Diigo can be a focused search tool and a great way for students to collaborate with one another. I appreciate the quote presented with your blog as it is so relevant to what we are trying to accomplish here by learning how to use and share new technology tools with each other and our students!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that you recognize how students are wont to copy an paste chunks of information, but that you are embracing this tendency and using Diigo as a way to force comments and thoughts to come out of our copy and paste (or I this case, highlighting) mentality. Bravo!
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