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http://zumpanotechlab.blogspot.com/2014/12/student-feedback-part-ii.html

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Last year I taught students how to give each other strong feedback using Today's Meet. The full post can be found here. This year I had the opportunity to do the same lesson but with a new school and a new set of fifth graders. The lesson series with this class came out of a conversation with the teacher, Ms. Foreman about student projects. She was looking for ideas for book reviews. Lucky for me she is enthusiastic and open to any suggestion involving technology.

I introduced Ms. Foreman to Audioboom. Having just provided the teachers with a professional development session on using QR codes in the classroom we decided to create audio recordings of student book reviews. The beauty of using Audioboom is that it automatically generates a QR code linking to that specific audio file. While the recordings were taking place the class was also working in PicCollage. I showed them the basics of how to use the program and some were already familiar with the process. The goal was a book cover to accompany their audio recording. Here are a few of their samples:

The students did a great job for their first time! I revisited the class and we talked about design elements. I pointed out some that I thought were great examples and I explained exactly what I liked about the elements (color scheme, layout of text and images, background graphics, etc.).

For the next part of the lesson I created a TodaysMeet room. Students were shown each book design and had a chance to offer feedback. Transcripts of the TodaysMeet session are available if you sign up for a free account. Students really enjoyed the tool!

This class has 30 students so you can imagine the amount of feedback each student received for their book designs. As I started to look through the transcripts I saw that not all of the feedback was helpful feedback. Even positive feedback can be positive but not helpful. I printed off the transcripts and selected different samples of feedback and cut them into strips.

The next time I joined this class I showed them a short presentation on providing strong feedback:

After, students received cut-out strips of feedback that they actually generated from the TodaysMeet's room (you can print transcripts of the room discussion) and were able to sort them according to the type of feedback they were (strong feedback, neutral feedback or nonsense feedback). Using the students' own words allowed ownership for the activity. We discussed their answers and talked about using TodaysMeet again. The students did a great job with this 4-part activity!

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Last year I taught students how to give each other strong feedback using Today's Meet. The full post can be found here . This year I had t...

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2. Aims of Learning Activities in the Blog

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2. Aims of Learning Activities in the Blog

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Active learning techniques were employed in these sessions to engage students in reading and reviewing books, as well as learning how to give each other useful feedback.

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Students used Audioboom to record reviews of books they had read
Students used PicCollage to design covers for their reviews
Students provided feedback to each other regarding their reviews
Students received a lesson on quality feedback and practiced sorting feedback into categories (useful, neutral, nonsense)

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In creating book reviews, students were not simply receiving information from the books or about the books, but were directly engaged in discussing content, assessing content, reacting, evaluating, and organizing information about the books with both spoken words and also with images and design
Students interacted with each other and each others' creations by directly examining and critiquing and providing feedback to one another
Students didn't just hear about what constitutes good feedback but worked together to analyze and sort feedback examples into categories, collaborating with each other and engaging both in spoken word and in writing

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5. How this might be used in higher education

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5. How this might be used in higher education

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This could be adapted almost directly for college students who are reading a text. I think this would be a useful start for the book analysis assignments I have in one of my classes that asks students to examine the types of arguments authors are using, the nature of the data presented, the basic content of an author's claims, and how the material relates to the student's life. These prompts could be incorporated into audioboom recordings as a first part of the assignment and students could listen to each others' thoughts as a prelude to writing a formal paper.

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In listening to the podcast Cult of Pedagogy that was part of class tools, I learned about the Peer Studio tool, which could also be useful in helping students learn how to assess each others' work and give feeback

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PeerStudio makes peer feedback easier for instructors to manage, and students to learn from. It automates away the tedious aspects of peer reviewing, and learners use a comparison-based interface that helps them see work as instructors see it.

More than 14500 learners in dozens of universities use PeerStudio to learn design, writing, psychology, and more.

Get started as an instructor

Comparative peer reviewing allows students to see what instructors see

The theory

PeerStudio leverages the theory of contrasting cases: comparing similar artifacts helps people see deeper, subtler distinctions between them. Think of wine tasting. It's much easier to notice the flavors when you compare one wine to another.

How PeerStudio uses comparisons

When students review in PeerStudio, they use a rubric that instructors specify. In addition to the rubric, PeerStudio finds a comparison submission within the pool of submissions from their classmates. While reviewing, students compare the target submission to this comparison submission using the provided rubric.

AI-backed, always improving

PeerStudio uses an artifical-intelligence backend to find just the right comparison for each learner and submission. (Among other features, we use learners' history of reviewing, and that of their classmates to identify optimal comparison submissions.) This backend is always learning, with accuracy improving even within the same assignment.

Guided reviewing

Learners often want to review well, but don't know how. We both help students learn how to review through interactive guides, and automatically detect poor reviewing.

INSPIRE STUDENTS

Inspire students with peer work

Most students in college today see so little of the amazing work their classmates do. PeerStudio creates an opportunity to see inspiring work and get more feedback on it. Instructors also tell us that their students enjoy writing, designing and completing assignments for a real audience, and how the benefits of peer reviewing spill over into clearer presentations and more insightful questions in class.

CLOUD-BASED

Work as your students do

PeerStudio is cloud-based, so it is available from any computer, and allows students to view most common assignment materials without any additional software: PDFs, videos (including auto-embedding Youtube), formatted text (bold, italics, tables,...) are all supported. And because it's backed up every night, your students (and you!) never have to worry about losing work.

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Automated assignment of reviewers

With traditional peer feedback tools, instructors have more, not less, work. You not only need to write the assignment and the rubric, but also assign students to review each other, make sure they do it on time, re-assign students who miss the deadline and so on.

PeerStudio automates it all. It uses an AI-backed to assign reviewers to submissions, automatically deals with balancing out reviewer load, and more. It even sends email reminders to students who haven't submitted their work or reviewed others.

REMAIN IN CONTROL

Grant deadline-extensions, keep an eye on review quality, and more

PeerStudio automates the busywork, but you remain in control. On your dashboard, you can grant one-time exceptions, track who's late, even read individual reviews. Many instructors also use their dashboard to find examples of excellent work to show in class, or to recognize excellent peer feedback.

We can help you implement peer reviewing correctly and set up PeerStudio in your class.
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PeerStudio: the peer feedback and assessment tool that helps students learn

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PeerStudio makes peer feedback easier for instructors to manage, and students to learn from. It automates away the tedious aspects of peer reviewing, and learners use a comparison-based interface that helps them see work as instructors see it. More than 14500 learners in dozens of universities use PeerStudio to learn design, writing, psychology, and more.