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You cannot regulate socialization. Not if you want everyone to engage on their own beginning comfort level and perhaps eventually expand the engagement they are comfortable with. I am reminded of the idiom “work the room” and how one person can connect one-on-one with individuals to make them feel comfortable, included, and what interests them, how they might fit in with others in the room then make those connections.
So how can we build in multiple lanes of learning for the lurkers to the loud mouths? What strategies would you offer? #edu522
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Imposing a cap on the number of words per post and number of posts per prompt and number of required intervening posts before one could post again to a prompt (with loss of points for violations) would/could help tone down the ‘loud mouths’ and at the same time give specific top boundaries for lurkers that might make them feel more comfortable/confident entering a conversation.
I shy away from min and max word limits, even thoguh all the data shows they work well, If I have students hwho participate too much I try to gently point them to the class code of conduct. I try to make space for lurkers with curation tasks.