A Sophomore Grades Himself: Snapshot from PLN Elective, End of Week 3 at Beyond School

A Sophomore Grades Himself: Snapshot from PLN Elective, End of Week 3

A snapshot from kwout of Younsuk’s self-assessment in the project-based PLN class. It’s interesting to me. Click to read it all, and feel free to comment to Younsuk. (He’s interesting, by the way: Korean, but grew up in Japan, which is fascinating to anybody who knows the modern historical relations between these two countries. Speaks Korean, Japanese, and English. And a great basketball player, while only a sophomore.)

PLN at KIS » Blog Archive » Super Honest Post; This Is What Was Happening In Me via kwout

The class blog itself is nothing pretty, but feel free to snoop around and leave any comments. It’s just a place to plan. The actual projects will have their own homes, wherever the students put them.

[Coming soon: A podcast discussion of this class with Dean Shareski - who visited us today from Canada via a Skype video call. Projected on our classroom movie screen, he looked like the Wizard of Oz's grandson.]

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Written by Clay Burell

January 31st, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Posted in 1to1 laptop, Networked Learning, blogging, creativity, global collaboration, language arts, lessons, professional development, project-based learning, school reform, social networking, student 2.0, teaching, writing

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I’ve been getting Cert IV & Diploma in Business/Business Administration students to ‘grade themselves’ for a couple of years now.

Most of them find it a really hard thing to do, as they’ve never been asked to do it before.

However, I think it is invaluable for the students to learn ’self assessment skills’ and learn how to self reflect.

99.9% of the students are very honest about the level of input into their work and with about 85-90% of the students I agree with the ‘grade’ they give themselves.

I also ask them to tell me – what they’ve learnt through the process, and what they would do differently, given their time again.

Keep up the fabulous work.

Allison Miller
Adelaide, South Australia
http://twitter.com/theother66

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Allison Miller

31 Jan 08 at 8:10 pm
Allison, nice suggestions. Thanks for that. Those targeted questions – especially “What would you do differently?”, which is the question my students must be able to answer deeply if they want to “fail big for an A+” – open the door to the heart of figuring out what you’ve learned beyond the facts, and what you need to learn further.

I’m really enjoying your blog, by the way. You’re asking great questions, and taking great, intelligent stabs at good “answers.”

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Clay Burell

31 Jan 08 at 8:30 pm
Wizard of Oz’s grandson….I barely know what that means!

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Dean Shareski

1 Feb 08 at 2:30 pm
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