PLTS Designs lesson 4

PLTS Designs lesson 4

Reflective Learner..

Notice when I or others do things well


Set goals with steps to help me achieve them


Check how things are going and act on anything I need to do to be successful


Ask for feedback on how I am doing and respond positively to suggestions that are made to help me improve


Use what I have done and learned to help me understand what I need to do next to make the outcome more successful.


The focus of this lesson was the PLTS skill of 'reflective learning', which tied in really well

with the part of their 'Capture' projects that the students are currently working on, 'Evaluation'.

Specificaly, the students were working on the part of their projects which involves 'inviting feedback from others about my work', so I thought I could tie the lesson in with this.


I set the students this task.



Peer Assessment



Instructions



1) Open your blog. Write an entry reflecting on how you feel about your music video so far. What problems have you had and what has been successful? What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of your work?



2) At the end of the entry write 'Please add your comments here'.


3) Now click on 1 of your classmates` blogs. Have a look at their blog entry about their music video. If they have uploaded their video, watch it.


4) Now click on 'add comment' and give feedback to your partner about what you think of their work. Try to use positive phrases such as.......



' Perhaps you could use that (bit of criteria from the markscheme) here?'


' I think you could add / change.....'


' I thought this was good, although to get to the next level up you could.....'


' I really liked this because.....'


'I think the strengths of this work are...'


'I like the way that you have adressed / explored issues of...'


'I like the way that you have used _ technique to represent _.'


'This video reminds me of_ / makes me feel_/ makes me think about_...'



Do this for each of your classmates' blogs.


5) Go back to your own blog and have a look at what people have written. See if you agree or disagree with their comments. Consider this in your Evaluation.


I thought that this was a good way of tieing in the feedback with the media that the students

are already working in. In order to get them reflecting and expand their horizons simultaneously, I played them this video:



This is a film by Video Artist Bill Viola. I asked the students to watch it and reflect on a few
of the sentences on their sheets:

I liked this because...
It reminded me of / made me feel / think about
I like the way that it used -- technique to represent ---

I wasn't sure how this would go down with the students as it is very slow moving (!) However, I received some really reflective responses. 1 student thought that the film was exploring the meaning of video and how it reflects the fast pace of today's society, whilst another student thought that the pool represented life, and the figure appearing and disappearing represented birth and death.
This was more than I expected to get from this activity, and set the scene really well for the peer assessment, which they worked on for the rest of the lesson.

Sunday, 13 December 2009 at 13:09

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