Luma Connections #9: Create a Discussion Leader
Collaboration and connection are important for our social-emotional well-being. Importantly, Luma has conducted research and published the benefits for creating learning communities remotely. This year, Luma will provide specific strategies you can implement to connect learners remotely. We are calling these strategies our Luma Connections.
Teaching Tool: Discussion Board
This is an online tool that allows learners to interact with each other to explore a topic and to discuss key concepts and concerts, share experiences, interact with each other, and to ask questions. Interactions are not in real-time and can be mentor-learner and learner-to-learner.
Tip:Create learning discussion leaders.
Give your learners the opportunity to lead a discussion. For example, you could set up a Book Club discussion board that is open all year. One month you read a book and the next month you discuss it with a different leader assigned. This could be structured in several ways.
Example 1. The leader picks the book and everyone reads and answers the same questions.Read Book X and answer these questions.
- What was your favorite part of the book?
- Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
- What will you always remember about this story?
Example 2. The leader picks the book and everyone reads and answers the same questions.Read a book on the theme of Love.
- What book did you read?
- What was your favorite part of the book?
- Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
- What will you always remember about this story?
Did you know?
Luma® is an instructional design and learning company that can help you connect learners remotely while creating powerful learning communities. Give us a call at (574) 807-8148 ext 5 or email info@learnwithluma.com.
