At the start of the academic year I encouraged students to consider 21st century reality in terms of both the professional and the personal sphere. We outlined how life today differs from the reality of say 3 or 4 decades ago, and how in the coming decades it will likely continue to evolve or radicallyContinue reading “What skills will I need?”
Category Archives: Assessment 4 Learning
Empire!
This exercise aimed to gamify working out past papers and its game structure can be adapted for different types of revision work. Gameplay Students are given a brief description of the game. Students have two minutes to memorise a list of great names in Computing; Then students have 2 minutes to list as many namesContinue reading “Empire!”
Past Papers 4 Revision
Current Set Up Set Up 1 – Self Assessment Students work out a question. Students self-assess performance. Class correction. Students note down points to remember on self-reflection sheet. Set Up 2 – Paired Team Assessment Students work in pairs on a question. Pairs swap solutions to assess each others’ fair. Class Correction. Students note downContinue reading “Past Papers 4 Revision”
Computer Games
A teaching activity designed to give just-in-time knowledge can keep learning relevant to a problem being tackled and the sandbox in the early stages of learning can give students the confidence to experiment…and that is essentially the type of learning games provide. Hence, I like to introduce students to a topic via a game. OftenContinue reading “Computer Games”
Our Blog
Our blog runs in the background of our lessons and activities. It is very much the class notebook and has many functions: It is a very useful tool for mixed-ability learning as it allows one to make a variety of activities available to students, creating a more flexible lesson; It provides students with links relevantContinue reading “Our Blog”
The Code Factor
I don’t do enough peer reviewing and the main reason is that I am apprehensive of the impact it could have in a mixed ability group. I felt more comfortabel using it in a pull-out session for students who opted to participate in a coding competition. These students were ‘academic peers’ and I thought thisContinue reading “The Code Factor”
3 Emojis 4 Feedback
This has been one of the simplest of ideas to get basic feedback on how students feel about the lesson and that has in my opinion helped improved learning in my class. The whole idea is that at the end of the lesson each student hands in one of these feedback sheets with one ofContinue reading “3 Emojis 4 Feedback”
You made it!
One awesome thing about having internet-enabled devices at hand is that it is so easy (and affordable!) to implement a ‘take your own route to making it’ approach to assessment, allowing students to work their way towards correct answers without being penalised for their mistakes on the way. Of course the element of trial-and-error necessitatesContinue reading “You made it!”
Blog 4 Coding
Teaching coding to a mixed-ability group can be very challenging. However our blog allowed me increased flexibility as outlined here. Providing resources for self-learning Self-learning is not only a 21st century skill but a particularly key skill for any programming. This lesson structure allowed me to encourage self-learning in my students, started from the veryContinue reading “Blog 4 Coding”
Trivial Pursuit
In ‘A New Culture of Learning‘ the authors highlight how play is not only key to childhood but can be central to adults thriving in the twenty first century: and this is just one of a myriad arguments for a gamified approach to learning. A sense of continuity and purpose to students’ work is aContinue reading “Trivial Pursuit”
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