Itâs just a doodle and not too legible, but might be useful. Below is the legible version of what Eduard and I came up with when we chatted about the basic teaching model we are tending towards. It consists of a cycle of four steps - do, reflect, get feedback and integrate. A module consists of several such cycles.
1. Do - Can be any action aimed at finding out and experiencing things, such as go walkabout, join an organisation, read a journal article, watch a video.
2. Reflect - Produce some kind of reflection on what you did, such as write a short (or long) review of the article you read, draw a map of your walkabout, answer multiple choice questions on your reading, give a rating to a resource, make a photo collage, provide a list of links, draw up a reference list.
3. Get feedback - This could be âcannedâ feedback (i.e. MCQ scores and explanations as to why options are correct or incorrect), self-assessment - open-ended or using a template, peer assessment, or assessment by a marker).
4. Integration - Use what is learnt from 1, 2 and 3 to produce something a bit bigger, more final, and more polished such as a section of a portfolio.
This four-step dance happens at different levels. If we have something like blogging going for students then there is a micro level where students are constantly doing (reading each othersâ blog posts and writing their own posts), reflecting (commenting, reblogging, liking), getting feedback (from others who comment on, like or re-blog their posts) and integrating (by improving and saving some bits for their portfolio). Some students might go through hundreds of these micro cycles during the module. At the meso level, students would do a number of tasks set by us (go walkabout, join an organisation, read an article, watch a video), reflect (e.g. write an account of what you did), get feedback (e.g. from being rated by peers) and integrate (edit and put in portfolio). At the macro level a module is ideally one large cycle - do (e.g. volunteer for an organisation), reflect (e.g. produce a poster), get feedback (e.g. on how your poster can be improved?) and finalle integrate (e.g. produce the final poster as a portfolio).
