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IDEA #14: Activity Set: Social & Visual Creation

Peer interaction is an important part of student agency because it allows students to practice collaborative skills that will be necessary in future academic spaces and the workplace. The following activities give students the opportunity to develop those skills.

Social Activities

• Debates and Discussions: Students share, argue, and develop ideas in a collaborative environment between other students and a professor. Debates and discussions may be held in-person or in an online discussion board.
• Interviews: Students conduct interviews to connect with/learn from someone in their field, providing them relevant, accurate information about a potential career path. These can be with fictional characters or historical figures, acted out in video or written as a script.
• Group Creation: Students can co-create games, murals, and performances.

Visual Creation Activities

• Interactive Word Wall: In courses with complex vocabulary, students can practice by writing out words and their definitions, arranging them on a word wall, rereading them, quizzing each other, and referencing the wall for repetition.
• Blog Assembly and Commentary: Students create a digital journal/blog about a topic where peers can view and comment.
• Magazine: Students can work together to create and design a magazine with different visual and written sections focused on a topic.
• Dialogue or Texting: Students can present information (including explanations of a concept, summaries, interactions between people/characters, or vocabulary examples) by writing exchanges of communication such as dialogue scenes in short stories/plays or a text thread created with paper/sticky notes.

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