The other night on #BYOTChat, we were sharing lesson ideas for Bring Your Own Technology environments. I mentioned the Fish Bowl activity completed in Freshmen Biology that week. A Fish Bowl is a discussion activity model involving one group of students looking in on another smaller group. The smaller group is participating in a discussion where they have researched a topic. The outside group (picture watching fish in a bowl) observes and takes critical notes on the observed discussion. Groups then flip roles.
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In a BYOT classroom, the teacher has more tools available to facilitate collaboration and research. In this case, the teacher chose Google Docs and Google Chat (we are a Google Apps for Education school). Images below are from the various activities (not complete - just snapshots). So try out a Fish Bowl...
Focusing on mitosis and blood typing, students collaboratively researched given topic via Google Docs...
During the Fish Bowl activity, a Google Chat back channel was open for those observing.
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