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Peer Review for The Horizon Project
Over the past few weeks my Year 7 (middle school 11 year olds) Students have been taking part in a peer review process as part of the SoundingBoard team for the Horizon Project. For those of you who aren’t sure what the Horizon Project is – it’s a global collaborative project run by Julie Lindsay (Bangladesh) & Vicki Davis (US) in conjunction with 3 other schools in Shanghai, Melbourne and Vienna. The project was based on the 6 immerging trends from the Horizon Report and the impact these trends will have in the future.
This was an amazing undertaking and the results are stunning! It was an absolutely privilege to be part of this project and the students in my class who did some of the reviewing were blown-away at times with the information they were reading and watching and learning! These students got to review multimedia presentations and wikis completed by students that they themselves will one day be. I have no doubt that being involved in this process will seriously raise the level of multimedia and wikispace presentation in my class.
I am very proud of the work that my students completed. There was an awful lot of imformation for them to look at and make their way through. They did a lot a reading, asked a lot of questions and then watched a number of multimedia presentations. When they were finished, each group completed a page of questions on our specially created wikispace, then they completed a 321 graphic organiser summarizing their review of each of the six trends from the report and their impact. You can read those reviews here.
This was a very satisfying project to complete and I know that the students who took part in this process will benefit greatly from it. A huge thanks to Julie and Vicki for organising such a worthwhile and meaningful project yet again, and a huge thanks to the students taking part in such a project and allowing some “smaller” students to review and comment on your work!
May 26th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
WOW, what an awesome job you and your students have done.
I have been keeping an eye on the horizon project and trying to work out if I have the energy to do one similar!!! I am starting small at the moment – by doing a project just with my class.
Anyway…
Congratulations to you and your class for such an amazing peer review of the different projects. Your students have articulated so well the good, the bad, the interesting and the “I am now wondering…”
I loved it when your students commented “there were lots of hard words we did not understand” and “it was very long”!!! These comments are a reminder to me as a teacher – that it’s not really that our kids are lazy – but reading something for ages is simply not really how they get engaged (unless it’s a good book of course). This new generation simply wants to know the answer straight away and if “you/it” can’t tell me in an instant, then they will go some where else.
So I guess a hint – make my blogs smaller – then more of the kids might read them LOL!!!!
Anyway, great work. Keep it up.
Lizz O’Hagan
Aorere College
Auckland
May 29th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Chrissy, your students did a fantastic job! Your are right in being proud of them. I am so impressed with the power of global peer reviewing and so pleased we have you and the other sounding board teachers in the project with us. Thank you!
June 5th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Excellent job! This is so very impressive. I am particularly considering the importance of peer review to accelerate the learning process — as you’ve shown here. Sometimes when students see a weakness in another, they are more likely to improve it in themselves. Such great insight!