Our class “Fish Bowls” on Fridays!!! A fish bowl is when a group of people (we had 4) sit in the middle of a large circle and discuss important topics. The people on the outside of the fish bowl are called the backchannel. They have laptops or chromebooks and they listen carefully to the discussion going on in the middle of the fish bowl. The backchannel doesn’t talk, only writes...just like texting. They write what they feel which gives everyone a chance to share their opinion on the topic. Everybody gets to read the backchannel on Padlet after the fish bowl is over. We can read everybody's opinion. Each new fish bowl, our teachers change the people in the middle to give them a chance to talk. We’ve already discussed different topics from our Scholastic News...should schools give homework or should elementary students learn a foreign language??? Fish bowling is really fun because you can debate different topics and see who agrees or disagrees with you.
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