Peer assignment: Review Student 1
Peer assignment: Review Student 1 General comments: I like your visual representation, this is very powerful. However, it seems that you have misunderstood the assignment: you have delivered a summary of the course material - not an assignment. The questions you answered, were questions directed at you. In your current presentation you have simply redirected the questions at the audience and given them some content from the course (the summary). The important difference here is: a summary is a reproduction of the material, whereas an assignment is when you connect this material to yourself. This can be your personal or professional life, but I have only found 1 simple statement of how this material connects to you. I have included a lot of comments and notes and I hope these will help you in knowing what is important when presenting material (in a summary or assignment). Best of luck with the course!
Specific comments: Question 1: How will taking an inquiry stance towards teaching and learning influence your planning? 1. ‘Know the standards, know objective, know skills’. Aren’t standard and objectives are the same: if you know the standards to which students must abide, you know the learning objectives. 2.Slide with title 'Standards' says Australian curriculum with no explanation of how and why this is relevant ( do they have special standards in Australia? In comparison to your country? Why is this mentioned on this slide? The reader/audience is left clueless if they are not taking this course or do not remember the exact details of this example (I am assuming it is an example, but you haven't explicitedly confirmed this). 3. The first piece of information relating to you - how you interprete or practice the course material, is that you write the standards at the top of your planning. This sounds like a good idea, but you do not elaborate on it. You merely mention it. You do not connect it to the examples or other information that is mentioned on the same slide. Why did you put these pieces of information on the same slide? I think it would be clearer for the audience if you made a new slide or some kind of sign that you are now talking about yourself instead of reproducing the course material. 4.You state that planning will change from .. to .., whitout giving evidence! If you had said 'planning can change instead of will' and given a couple of examples (perhaps the Australian
curriculum you mentioned before?), the slide would be interesting. But now it is a lose summation of statements without any evidence or your personal experience.
Question 2: What is the connection bewteen assessment for elarning and planning for teaching and learning? I like the visuals (the jigsaw puzzle etc.) but again, you have merely reproduced the course material instead of connecting it to yourself. You have not shown that you have processed this information in light of new contexts such as your professional life, which was the assignment. Also, you do not have a clear ending. It suddenly stops. Take care of your audience by letting htem know that this is the end (a quick recap, or follow-up questions usualy work well).
Specific comments: Question 1: How will taking an inquiry stance towards teaching and learning influence your planning? 1. ‘Know the standards, know objective, know skills’. Aren’t standard and objectives are the same: if you know the standards to which students must abide, you know the learning objectives. 2.Slide with title 'Standards' says Australian curriculum with no explanation of how and why this is relevant ( do they have special standards in Australia? In comparison to your country? Why is this mentioned on this slide? The reader/audience is left clueless if they are not taking this course or do not remember the exact details of this example (I am assuming it is an example, but you haven't explicitedly confirmed this). 3. The first piece of information relating to you - how you interprete or practice the course material, is that you write the standards at the top of your planning. This sounds like a good idea, but you do not elaborate on it. You merely mention it. You do not connect it to the examples or other information that is mentioned on the same slide. Why did you put these pieces of information on the same slide? I think it would be clearer for the audience if you made a new slide or some kind of sign that you are now talking about yourself instead of reproducing the course material. 4.You state that planning will change from .. to .., whitout giving evidence! If you had said 'planning can change instead of will' and given a couple of examples (perhaps the Australian
curriculum you mentioned before?), the slide would be interesting. But now it is a lose summation of statements without any evidence or your personal experience.
Question 2: What is the connection bewteen assessment for elarning and planning for teaching and learning? I like the visuals (the jigsaw puzzle etc.) but again, you have merely reproduced the course material instead of connecting it to yourself. You have not shown that you have processed this information in light of new contexts such as your professional life, which was the assignment. Also, you do not have a clear ending. It suddenly stops. Take care of your audience by letting htem know that this is the end (a quick recap, or follow-up questions usualy work well).
