The following includes a brief explanation of Student Sites, as well as examples of how Student Sites is being applied in current practice in the VTaL Google+ Community. Included are different aspects of the Practicing Teaching Criteria that links to the use of Student Sites. There are also references of how Student Sites connects to the 7 Principles of Learning from the Nature of Learning, published by the OECD Project Innovative Learning Environment.
The purpose of the Student Sites is that students can showcase visual representations of the work that they have completed within a particular subject.
The VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning Google+ Community is a public community that is completely visible and accessible to all users.
The section on Student Sites includes posts that cover a wide range of topics relevant to student sites, such as:
The following are various aspects of Practising Teaching Criteria that relates to the use of Student Sites.
Promote a collaborative, inclusive and supportive learning environment
The following are reflective questions that relates to the use of Subject Sites.
"Students can showcase visual representations of the work that they have completed"
The following are different aspects of the 7 Principles of Learning that relates to the use of Student Sites.
The learning environment recognises the learners as its core participants, encourages their active engagement and develops in them an understanding of their own activity as learners.
OECD The Nature of Learning, 2016Building horizontal connections
The learning environment strongly promotes “horizontal connectedness” across areas of knowledge and subjects as well as to the community and the wider world.
OECD The Nature of Learning, 2016