I often use KWL charts at the start of a new unit to assess both what the students already know and what they want to learn. As I prepare our next health unit, I decided to use the journal module in Moodle rather than have them write their KWL on paper. <\/p>\n
To my surprise, I seemed to get longer responses from them than I usually get on paper. This is especially surprising because the students who are not in my communications class have not spent much time keyboarding this year so their typing is a bit laborious. For most students, the spelling was highly inaccurate and a number of words were left out completely– a sure sign that they aren’t rereading what they write. I know that is typical of children, but I wish I had ideas on how to get them to reread– ideas that do not involve lower grades or some other punishment. Ultimately, I don’t want them to edit their work to get a good grade; I want them to edit their work because poor mechanics make it more difficult for their readers to understand the writer’s message. <\/p>\n
Using the journal module worked well because it is private- students can only see their own entry, no one else’s, and because I can read all of the responses from one page rather than needing to click on each message as I must do in a forum or assignment module. I wonder what module I should have used so that they could add their “What I learned” section after the unit; journals only allow one entry from the student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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