Mashing ideas

In the techno/ICT world at present the concept of 'mashing' is when you take 2 completley different ideas or concepts and put them together. This summer I attended 2 conferenced - the first was in relation to assessment and the other was Alan November's Building Learning Communities in Boston, USA. A recurring theme to me at both conferences was a development in the feedback that students receive about the learning. At the Assessment conference I was encouraged to think about using a learning log with students. This would be something used in class to allow students to consider and reflect what tey have learnt recently and that would allow the teacher to comment on the reflection. It was hoped that this use of feedback would encourage the production of a development in a culture of working together.

Then, at the ICT/ Learning conference I was challenged to use some of the new technological tools to perhaps meet this need. Getting students to produce and comment on a team web blog or even to strt their own blogs would be an excellent way to meet this need. i am going to try this with some of my Year 14 students initially.