Right now · 45 minutes · You are a student
Work through a real coLearn-AI activity with your table, exactly as your students would.
- 9:15 · Setup, 7 min: log in, open the class, pick an activity, and read your roles aloud.
- 9:22 · Activity, 20 min: work together. The Facilitator calls time at 9:42.
- 9:42 · Debrief, 10 min: three Process Analysts report to the room.
- 9:52 · Instructor view, 8 min: we look at what the platform recorded about your groups.
Resist thinking like the instructor. That comes in Part 3.
Getting Started
- Connect to any Wi-Fi. The guest network is fine. Can’t get online? Share a screen with a teammate, or raise your hand.
- Open colearn-ai.com and log in with the student account on your login card. Each person uses their own account.
- Open the CCSC:MW class (see below). You are already in a group with the people at your table, and the platform has assigned each of you a role.
- As a table, start Loops with Turtles or How Maps Mislead (see below), and read your roles aloud.
Your card also has a creator login for Part 3.
The Two Workshop Classes
The workshop uses two classes on colearn-ai.com. You use your student login in the first, and your creator login in the second.
CCSC:MW (code: ccscmw)
Ready-made activities to experience as a student. Used in Parts 2 and 5.
CCSC:MW Create (code: create)
An empty class where you create and test your own activities. Used in Part 3.
| Activity in CCSC:MW | Mode | When |
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| Loops with Turtles | Group | Part 2: your table chooses this one or the map activity |
| How Maps Mislead | Group | Part 2: your table chooses this one or the programming activity |
| Python While Loops | Test (quiz) | Part 2: optional, if your group finishes early |
| coLearn-AI Feature Gallery (Demo) | Demo | Any time: every feature open at once, for browsing |
| coLearn-AI Feature Gallery (Group) | Group | Any time: the same features in the group flow |
| coLearn-AI Workshop Feedback | Assignment (individual) | Part 5: the closing survey |
Your Roles
The platform assigns roles in this order: Facilitator, Process Analyst, Quality Control, and then Spokesperson. A group of three has no Spokesperson.
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Facilitator
Keep the group on task and watch the clock. Make sure everyone speaks before each submit. Call time at 9:42.
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Process Analyst
Watch how the group works, not just the answers. You may be asked for a one-sentence reflection in the debrief.
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Quality Control
Read the answer aloud before it is submitted. Is it complete? Does it actually answer the question?
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Spokesperson (groups of 4)
Speak for the group. Ask the instructor questions and report to the room.
Who types? Whoever holds the turn.
Only one person at a time can type. After each submission, the turn passes to the next member automatically, so everyone types at some point. When it isn't your turn, you contribute by talking.
You can tell at a glance: the person holding the turn has a green header at the top of the activity, and everyone else, the observers, has a blue one. Observers see the answers update as they are typed.
The instructor’s view is up front
While you work, you will see the instructor’s view, the View Groups page, presented on the screen at the front. It shows what an instructor sees in class: where each table is, which submissions were accepted or sent back, and how long each group has been idle. Glance up as you go; we will look at it together at 9:52.
Two Activities: Choose One as a Group
Your table decides together which one to do. Both run the same way: roles, turn-taking, AI feedback, and the epistemic trace. A good rule: pick the one closest to what most of your group teaches.
🐢 Programming Activity: Loops with Turtles
Loops with Python turtle graphics. Your group predicts what a turtle will draw, replaces repeated code with a loop, and makes a spiral. You see each answer as a drawing. Being comfortable with CS1 is plenty.
🗺️ Map Activity: How Maps Mislead
For colleagues outside computing, with no code and no background needed. Your group predicts how big Greenland really is, explains why the map fooled you, and compares two maps of the same data that tell different stories.
📝 Finished Early? Try the Quiz: Python While Loops
A short demo quiz shows the platform in test mode: individual, graded with a rubric, and no AI feedback. It’s optional. Take it if your group finishes before time is called.
The Submission Loop
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Discuss
Read the question together and talk it through. No one types yet.
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Respond
Whoever holds the turn types the agreed answer. Quality Control reads it aloud.
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AI Evaluates
Accepted, or sent back with one question about what to rethink. No grades.
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Advance or Revise
Accepted? Move on. Sent back? Discuss the AI’s question and try again. After a few tries you may press Continue.
The AI will not give you the answer.
If it sends your answer back, resolve its question by talking it through as a group. Don't just rephrase the same answer.
What to Notice As You Work
🔄 The Rotating Turn
The typist changes after every submission. Who speaks up, and who stays quiet, compared with an unstructured group task?
💬 Being Sent Back
Did the AI’s question help, or was it frustrating? You’ll design these questions yourself in Part 3.
📜 The Epistemic Trace
Every submission, AI response, and revision is recorded. We’ll look at your group’s record right after the debrief.
After the Activity: Review Together
Three Process Analysts report to the room. Each gives a one-sentence answer to one of these questions:
- When the AI sent an answer back, did its question help? Or was it frustrating? Why?
- How did the rotating turn change who contributed?
- What surprised you, from a student’s point of view?
Instructor view, 8 min · 9:52
Together we look at the instructor’s
View Groups page for the groups in this room, on the screen at the front, in
Observation view. It shows each group's timeline, which submissions were accepted and which were sent back, the number of submissions per question group, and the epistemic trace for one question across two groups. Notice how groups reached the same final answer by very different paths.
⏸ Break, 10:00 – 10:10
Part 3 starts at 10:10 sharp. You'll come back as an activity author. Keep your login card.