HyperDocs Hype: Reflect

"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience," said John Dewey, an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. After challenging students to explore, create, and communicate ideas in a HyperDoc, give them an opportunity to reflect on what they've learned, to evaluate their work using rubrics and checklists, and to set new learning goals. Promoting this growth mindset starts by helping them first identify the steps they take when learning something. This could be done as a class discussion or by using a HyperDoc to capture student thinking. However you choose to lead students through the reflection process, though, they must think about two things:

1. How they learned.
2. The academic content--the "what"--they learned using a standard, mandated, or self-created rubric. These rubrics and checklists are generally used for report cards or mandated reporting of student progress, but are helpful to students when they're reflecting on their progress as well. 

You can personalize a HyperDoc's reflection section to fit your students' individual goals.

HyperDoc Reflect Strategies

REFLECT TOOL: PADLET In your HyperDoc, link to a Padlet. Padlet is a web tool described as a graffiti wall, online paper, or a digital bulletin board. Teachers can use it to encourage online conversations or quickly collect student thinking.

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How to Design Create a Padlet. Add your questions to the heading and share the link to the Padlet using a shortened URL or link it directly to another HyperDoc. Create a list of questions that prompt students to think about their role in the learning process. For best results, we recommend generating reflective questions from one or all three of the following categories: Content: Ask the student about what he learned. Use a broad, theme-based question. Who? What? Where? When? Why? How does this connect to what we learned? Personal: Ask about the student's individual learning experience. What part of this assignment as difficult for you? Why? How might you approach an activity like this differently next time? How did you contribute to your group's overall effectiveness? Collaborative: Ask about the group learning experience and his interactions with his partner. What did your group do well together? How did you support your partner today? How did your group problem solve when there were varying points of view? How to Deliver At the end of a learning experience, direct students to the Padlet and ask them to record their thinking. Watch the magic unfold as all the thinking in the room is shared in this one live document.

REFLECT TOOL: WORDLE The free word clouds created by Wordle may initially look like just beautiful collections of words on a page, but when you discuss a word cloud with your students, it can lead to deep, complex reflection. Wordle varies the sizes of words based on how many times they're repeated within the document, which makes analyzing why one word is larger than the others a great place to begin a reflection lesson. Depending on what you asked to generate the words, students can look for patterns, share predictions, and make connections to an assignment's content. Using this method of reflection for team building, to review a concept, or to explore a topic provides students with an opportunity to develop higher-level thinking skills.

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How to Design As you create a question or prompt to generate a set of words around a topic, think about its possible answers and whether or not they would result in a word cloud worthy of rich examination. You can package this portion of your lesson with clear instructions in a HyperDoc. How to Collect and Deliver An easy way to collect words that will populate a Wordle is through a Google Form. Attach a link to the form in your HyperDoc. You can then highlight and copy all of the words in the form's spreadsheet at once. Open Wordle and, following the website's instructions, paste the text in the designated location. Change the Wordle's fonts, color, and shape to achieve your desired look and then either download the image or take a screenshot to share in a location so all participants can access it.

REFLECT TOOL: TABLES IN A GOOGLE DOC A popular reflection project is "20% Time." This type of comprehensive project offers students a great opportunity to try new things, explore new topics, take risks, practice time management, and pursue their personal passions. Each week, students work on projects of their choosing, pushing toward a goal and researching ideas. As students work, you provide coaching and feedback. Afterward, students jot notes and reflect on their learning process. And though 20% Time projects are open-ended, you'll be surprised by what your students can do when they have a purpose, and audience, and an opportunity to create.

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How to Design Insert a table in a Doc. Post reflective questions in the table. After each weekly work session, give students a chance to reflect on the table on the HyperDoc. How to Deliver Give students time to respond to the questions each week.  Read the students' responses and offer immediate feedback, asking questions to push thinking, providing resources (as needed), making connections with mentors, and offering motivation. How to Collect This HyperDoc can be shared through Google Classroom, allowing you to provide consistent feedback and follow along with your students' progress as they document their work each week.

REFLECT TOOL: GOOGLE DOCS As you design your HyperDoc, think carefully about how you will evaluate your students' learning and how that evaluation process will fit the standards mandated for your classroom. One method you may consider is using rubrics and checklists, which can be embedded into a HyperDoc

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How to Design Insert a rubric or checklist into the HyperDoc. On the Google Doc, make a second copy of the rubric or checklist. The purpose of this is so that both the student and the teacher have a space to reflect on the same HyperDoc. How to Deliver Allow students time to record their thinking in the HyperDoc. While your students are reflecting, teachers complete the same exercise and afterward offer students feedback for each student on their individual HyperDoc. How to Collect Share the HyperDoc and your students' reflections on the learning process from start to finish with parents and administrators so that they can see student growth.

REFLECT TOOL: UNIT OF STUDY REFLECTION SLIDE DECK Building in time to reflect and capture your students' thoughts in this HyperDoc will help them develop a growth mindset, provide concrete documentation of their reflection as a learner, and set new goals. Preparing for parent-teacher conferences? Let students take full ownership and allow them to facilitate a student-led conference using this HyperDoc.

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How to Design Create a new slide deck or use the template provided (see Sample HyperDoc), personalizing questions to reflect your study unit's specific learning objectives. How to Deliver Allow students time to record their thinking in the HyperDoc, which might take multiple class periods. You can give feedback digitally or face-to-face. Also, students can share, read, and reflect with one another. How to Collect Use the student work collected in this HyperDoc as a learning assessment. Based on your students' responses, where will you take them next?

HyperDocs Hype: Share

As you design your HyperDoc, think about how your students will share their final products. If you go the traditional route, students show their work in front of the class, with their parents, or within a small group. You could also print students' work and display it either in the classroom or as a gallery walk. If you opt for transformational sharing, students receive feedback from an audience that goes beyond their classmates, teacher, and parents and includes the public. This elevates the sharing experience and gives students a purpose for real audience, which typically increases the quality of work they turn in and promotes an intrinsic motivation to create something awesome so they can get comments, likes, hearts, and similar feedback from the public.

HyperDoc Share Strategies

SHARE TOOL: COMMENTING IN GOOGLE DOCS We all regularly ask our colleagues for feedback about our ideas, and just as our peers' comments help us grow as learners, they can help our students, too. That's why it's so important to teach students this practice early on. Fortunately, Google has made digital collaboration simple through its apps' sharing and comments features. Simply ask students to share their work via Google Apps and solicit feedback from a classmate (or two or three) using the HyperDoc. This exercise gives students a real audience while also teaching digital citizenship.

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How to Design Create a blended learning environment where students can share their work in person and digitally. Offer opportunities to engage in partnerships Invite students to read one another's work in Google Docs and insert thoughtful comments. How to Deliver Share the HyperDoc with students. Assign students partners with whom to share their Docs. Each partner will read and make comments on the other's work and then return the work to its owner so the owner can read the comments. Students comment on classmates' work as appropriate. You may have to give students examples of effective comments (digital citizenship, effective partnership lessons). How to Collect Have students click Share to give you editing rights to their HyperDocs. This also allows you to collect their comments whenever you need to.

SHARE TOOL: GOOGLE SLIDES When it comes to selecting a method for sharing student work, sometimes less really is more. Take, for example, Google Slides. Use this tool to get students collaborating and communicating. This simple tool allows students to choose their slides' image, text, videos, links, and graphic designs with little workflow effort. Once a presentation is complete, students can explore one another's work instantly, learning from the content and gaining inspiration for their own designs. Students can also share their completed slide decks through a link or by embedding it into a Google Site, giving an even greater audience the opportunity to explore their work. Working together on one slide deck takes cooperation and it's a great opportunity for students to exhibit digital citizenship.

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How to Design Create a new Google Slides deck through your Google Drive. Adjust the share settings to "Anyone with a link can edit" while the project is in process, allowing you to control the design as much or as little as you need. For example, you could create one slide for each student, add a template for scaffolded instructions, or even add students' names to avoid confusion when selecting a slide to work on. How to Deliver Attach a link for a Google Slides presentation directly to a HyperDoc, along with instructions for the project. Since multiple students will be working on the document at one time, it's helpful to keep the slide deck open on your device so you can monitor their progress. You could even project the slide deck in progress onto a screen in the room for instructional purposes, such as to clarify instructions, teach a design technique, or just showcase clever work. How to Collect Once students have completed their slides, set the presentation to view-only to avoid any further changes being made. Share a link to the slide deck as a QR code, through an email, or by embedding it on a website for easy access.

SHARE TOOL: STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL The primary reason we have students share their work is to provide them with an authentic audience, a group of people to help students share, grow, and celebrate their ideas. Hosting a student film festival will help your lessons reach redefinition, because all four Cs will be implemented in highly engaging ways and will culminate with a live audience. To prepare the film festival, have students produce films with a real purpose: to share their film's messages with a live or digital audience beyond the classroom. This alone increases students' levels of intrinsic motivation.

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How to Design You can design a film festival event in many ways: with your own class; as a grade level, department, or school; within the community; or open to the public online. How you design and plan your festival will depend on which method you choose. Design a website to help you curate your film festival's resources, including video examples, rules, categories, deadlines, support resources, etc. Set a deadline and share festival information with participants. Invite an audience and publicize your event. Prepare the venue. Host your film festival! How to Deliver Curate all media resources on a website. This will make it easier for you, your colleagues, and your students to follow along with the rules, deadlines, etc. Student will go to the HyperDoc site to access festival information and eventually share their films. Walk your students through the video production process, encourage them to produce films about their personal passions, and eventually this will help them prepare to enter their work into the festival. Films can be made in class, at home, or both. How to Collect Students can submit their films through a Google Form, which you can link to the website where the other resources are curated. The film festival committee (made up of teachers, student leaders, administrators, etc.) can then access the spreadsheet and begin to judge the video submissions. And who knows? Perhaps all the videos will be accepted to the film festival. Sharing the Films with an Authentic Audience (This might include the class, school, community, or public online.) Curate the student-created films in a YouTube playlist. Invite students and their families to a public venue to participate in the film festival. Play the students' films on a large screen for the entire community audience to enjoy together. Watch your students beam with pride as their films are shared on the big screen!

SHARE TOOL: DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS Students love showing their friends and family members their best work, and a digital portfolio allows them to do just that with a click of their mouse. Instead of filing away projects in a box, only to be tucked away in a garage and never looked at again, digital portfolios showcase a student's learning progression. Families can easily access a digital portfolio, time and time again, to revisit student work when it is linked online and packaged in a digital portfolio. Google Slides, Sites, and Blogger are all great platforms for students to publish their projects. Help students set up their digital portfolio's organization, purpose, and structure, and chances are, they will continue to build it long after they leave your classroom.

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How to Design In the HyperDoc, include the following: Video tutorials for building a digital portfolio A personalized checklist of projects to include A Google Form to turn in completed work; Guidelines for publishing work; An opportunity for students to reflect on the pieces they chose to include in the portfolio How to Deliver Create a HyperDoc with a list of steps. Throughout the year, use rubrics to promote quality student-created digital content. Add a checklist to the HyperDoc to keep track of what projects should be showcased. How to Collect Collect portfolio URLs in a Google Form

SHARE TOOL: GOOGLE FORMS AND SPREADSHEETS When you have a lot to accomplish and not enough time to do it all, maximizing face time with students is important. So rather than having every student present their individual projects one at a time while the rest of the class passively listens, have your class share their creations digitally. To do this, provide students with links to both the Google Form and the spreadsheet that has links to all of the projects. Students can then choose which presentations they view and when, having an entire classroom of students with whom to engage and review their peers' projects at one time.

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How to Design In your HyperDoc, attach a Google Form to a prompt like "turn in your work HERE." Create a Google Form, being sure to copy the link from the live form. Highlight the word "HERE" and insert the link. Follow the same instructions for sharing the spreadsheet and setting the share settings as view-only. How to Deliver Students can turn in their work using the link in the HyperDoc. Be sure to share any expectations you may have for viewing projects. How to Collect Collect your students' work using a Google Form, which creates a spreadsheet that can be shared even outside your classroom.