🧀 Nacho EduProtocols
Nacho Paragraph 🧀
According to required readings in USC's 529x Teaching Writing: Research to Practice course, top-notch classroom writing programs will have (among other things):
procedural supports such as checklists for revision/editing
a sense of community where risks are supported
collaboration as a cornerstone of the program
volunteers who encourage, and coach children's writing & help teachers give more feedback
Those elements are all embedded in this writing EduProtocol, in which students are engaged in a peer review writing activity. To ensure that students will not know whose paper they are reviewing, teachers can create and share a spreadsheet with links to classmate's Google Docs. Students can then pick a document to review, paste the paragraph into the blank space on the purple slide, and follow the steps on the writing checklist. Teachers adjust the peer editing checklist dependent upon the writing genre.
Disclaimer: the sample “student” paragraph on slide #2 was written by ChatGPT. I commanded the AI to write a persuasive paragraph, using 6th grader vocabulary, explaining why pets should be allowed in school. 🤯
🧀 Nacho Thin Slide
Tweaked versions of EduProtocols are constantly popping up on Twitter! A traditional Thin Slide EduProtocol is a slide deck where each student adds one word and one image to a shared slide deck. In this version of Thin Slides, students are given facts and falsehoods. It's up to the students to find and correct the falsehoods on each slide. As an extension activity, students can be assigned to create additional Nacho Thin Slides with facts and falsehoods about the assigned topic.
Tip: Use ChatGPT to write false statements about a topic 😎
Nacho Problem 🧀
What's a problem that's not yours? Nacho problem! This is an error analysis protocol where students must first recognize the problem-solving mistakes made by another student. Next, students will solve for the correct answer & show their work.
Lisa Nowakowski & Jeremiah Ruesch have authored an EduProtocol Field Guide: Math Edition for those interested in using EduProtocols with a “math” lens.