Reaching agreement on discussion protocols

andrewstillman's picture

If there are member suggestions to be incorporated into the protocol, let's have that discussion here!

Suggested collaboration protocols:

  1. Each member of the team will make themselves responsible for "kicking off" discussion of a section in the team forum. Here's what this leadership might entail, unless there are recommendations to change it:
    1. Aim to develop between one and three clarification questions for the section(s) they have chosen to lead, and post these in the group forum. A clarification question is meant to help the group better ascertain, in an objective manner, the reasoning or facts being presented in the book, and avoids inference or judgment.
    2. Each member will also develop between one and three probing questions for each section. A probing question should deepen the conversation that readers are having with the book. It should seek to be an open question that is not "yes/no" or factual, or rhetorical.
    3. Between one and three connections. A connection can be text-self, text-text, or text-world, and is a brief explication of relationship between some aspect of the chapter and another (self, text, or world related) concept.