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Youth Voices - where we encourage random acts of commenting kindness

Students working to become power users on Youth Voices pay as much attention to their comments as they do to creating their own discussion posts.

Both of these tasks ask the student to engage in an authentic conversation and to use valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence when writing a comment or a reply,

We encourage students to use (and go beyond) the Youth Voices guides for comments.

This process of engaged, sourced comments and replies models what it means to be a scholar in any discipline or a professional in a career.

P Time it should take to complete:
2 hrs

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Commenting - Notice and Construct

Analyze, Create, and Collaborate with Multimedia

Be an active, authentic participant in Youth Voices conversations. Add comments to a few more Discussions, and in each of your comments, take a position and support it with evidence from articles that you have copied quotes from in your research (Row 3) or a book that you are reading (Row 2). Also, reply to other people’s comments on any Discussions that you have started or commented on earlier. Use and go beyond Quoting a Source in a Comment in each of your comments. This guide makes clear how to include a quote from your reading and why your comments and replies need to be least 5 paragraphs long.

In the Post Comment button here (on P2PU) add a links to your comments on Youth Voices. Do this before you click Yes, I'm done .

We encourage students to break out of these overly-structured "sentence starters" such as Quoting a Source in a Comment. We want you to create your own kinds of response. However, we do ask you to keep in mind the following guidelines:

Speak directly to the student or teacher whose post you are responding to.
Quote from the post or describe specific details (of an image or video).
Relate the work to your own experiences or to another text, image, video, or audio that this one reminds you of.
Be encouraging and generous with your remarks. End on a positive note.