This year I decided to let the protocols “slide” for the first few lessons just to get students more comfortable with the technology (chromebooks, code.org, and google classroom) and to focus on the other content in the lessons. For this lesson I forced students to come up with the most detailed protocols they could. It wasn’t pretty.
SO… I am going to back track a bit tomorrow. I am planning on putting up these three protocols (students created them) and ask students what is “good, better, and best” out of the three and then say what they like or would change about each of them. Then, I am going to have the whole crew go back and re-work their protocol as homework for the night. Hopefully the text protocol will run a bit more smoothly then!
Here were 3 student’s responses to the protocol.
I love the diversity of thought here, BUT the explanation could be a lot better.