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How does the teacher employ blog for the learning activity?
- (1) To solve problems (2) Cater to different learning ability: Expert and Apprentice [Pair #14]
- Background: This blog is created by a group of primary school kids Observation The intent is for students to solve maths puzzles [Pair #4]
- The teacher categorises the questions to cater to pupils of different ability (in problem solving).
- Notice that pupils are encouraged to 'track' the changes in the blog? A possible reason is to get pupils to take note of new activities in the blog. If pupils keep track of this Puzzle blog, whenever there's new posting (such as new puzzle or answers to the puzzle), they will be alerted to visit the blog. This helps to sustain the flow of traffic.
How pupils participate in the activity?
- Key their solutions as comments [Pair #14]
- They post their solutions to the blog as comments [Pair #4]
- Pupils participated by contributing their suggested answers to the blog.
- It is quite obvious that pupils submit their answers via the comment (although all are posted on the same page).
How pupils' learning is monitored? If this is not reflected in the blog, what would you propose to do so as to monitor the activity?
- Teacher has to access the comments to monitor pupils' learning [Pair #14]
- (1) Teacher makes a few commnets on the students' solutions (2) Teachr set ground rules for students in terms of giving comments [Pair #4]
- Pupils' inputs have to go through the 'moderator' (ie. the teacher, Ms Hearman) before it's displayed on the blog. So, this is one way that teacher can scan before allow anything that's decent to be posted in the web.
- Although there isn't response to individual pupils' answers, teacher can 'scan' through pupils' inputs and 'mark', or surface it for discussion with the class.
