Discussion Board Audit-A Metacognitive, Wrap-up Assignment | Faculty Focus - 4 views
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“I wanted my students to cite and support their comments because everybody has an opinion about alcohol and drugs. I want to know where they get [their opinions] and to make them credible opinions,” Lake says.
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students blog and do blog audits at the end of the course
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My critical thinking has improved
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Taking the next step after the course content is completed but before the course actually finished: Blog Audits. It is a meta-cognitive approach to the student's contributions to the class from where they began to where they finished.
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This article is directed towards higher ed., but it seems very applicable to my Senior English class. It can be extremely difficult for students, and even teachers, to quantify growth in education. Often enough, students are developing in some way that is not apart of the curriculum and any good teacher is OK with that. These changes can often be found in writing, which is a major reason why many schools across the country are focused on writing across the disciplines. Seeing and valuing these changes is a major part in finding the value of a student's time and effort in a class. While student may not accomplish all the objectives in a course, their attitude may change to the learning and that is not something trivial. That can be found in this meta-cognitive activity.