How to Teach Students Discussion Forums

An Essential 21st Century Literacy

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Discussion forums and threaded conversation are a basic digital literacy. I teach these using Reddit and the Wikispaces discussion forum. When students and teachers know how to communicate effectively in discussion forums, they make themselves able to join forums correctly. Often, when people join discussion forums who don’t know how to use them, they make mistakes that get them...