My year 13’s started their last internal assessment last week ‘Examine personal involvement in a social action(s) that aims to influence policy change(s)’ worth 6 credits. Students need to work in groups to complete the assessment.
After organising their groups, they began by looking at a social issue they were interested in to focus on, and had to create an argument as to why this would be an important issue for them to pursue. The next step was to brainstorm what social actions they could do as part of their assessment. Usually we would have the students collaborate on a document and in the past they would be linking relevant information all over the place. We found that students couldn’t keep a good track of where their work was and it tended to be messy and disorganised.
My colleague suggested we taught our kids to use MIRO as the platform for collaboration and it made sense. It would be one space for them to collaborate on without having to search and find documents and links in their individual drives to their one document.
Here is a recording of me attempting to teach the year 13’s how to use MIRO before lockdown.
Once each group created their own MIRO, my co-teacher and I talked about templates they could use to organise their planning and create a to-do list. I would still like to create a common template for them all, although we went into lockdown and we missed the chance in person to do that. Hopefully the groups will use it during lockdown! (Below are some screenshots of how two groups of students started to use MIRO in class).
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