Reflect & Feedforward

Now that student have a significant amount of their learning online, encouraging authentic, relevant, ongoing, formative reflection has never been easier.

Reflection is proven to be critical to learning:

"Learning is more effective if a lesson or experience is deliberately coupled with time spent thinking about what was just presented."

Learning by Thinking

"... individual learning is enhanced by deliberately focusing on thinking about what one has been doing. [...] Together, our results reveal reflection to be a powerful mechanism behind learning, confirming the words of American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey: “We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.” (p29)

Or see my blog posts on this here, and here.

Have a flick through these screenshots to see some easy ways to facilitate this with your students.

Commenting on image files, from photographs, to screencasts, to images found online is another great way to use Google Drive comments: