I would definitely need to wait for the new technology to implement this tool, but here's what I plan to implement:
Content Objective: TLW survey another class in order to aggregate data about other students' reviews of books that they are critiquing literarily.
Timeline: 5th 6 weeks
Tools you plan to use: Itouch and i pads; email; google doc/spreadsheets
Brief Description:
Students will choose a book to critique and will post their titles on a Google Doc. Then, students within the class and in other 7th grade PreAP LA classes will post comments about that book that they will in turn use in their literary critiques of that book. They could ask certain questions about the book on their survey to insure that the "reviews" are thoughtful and indicative of critical thinking.
This can get them involved in a real-world type of dialogue about books that one might see on goodreads.com, amazon.com, or librarything.com.
Cool idea. I love Google Forms and I think the students would be all over creating their own forms/surveys for other students to fill out. :-)
ReplyDeleteI think I like this idea as well although not sure I really understand what you're doing. Students are creating forms about a particular book and then other students are filling out the form IF they have read the book?
ReplyDeleteYes, that would be IF they have read the book, but you'd be surprised how many of them read the same books. We could even try to coordinate the books between the classes so that more kids read the same books.
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