R&R in Blended Style!Boey Soek Bing22 June 2012

Why blend?

Pen-and-Paper R&R Usually questions appear

at the end of the article.

Article of reasonable length based on time available

Blended R&R Questions can appear near

the paragraph or anywhere within the article for faster reference

Article can be long as students can be split and collaborative learning can take place

Why blend?

Pen-and-Paper R&R

Only a few students give verbal feedback

Blended R&RAll students can give

feedback or reflections via shared blog

By reading the blog, students can get to know the sections which they may not have a chance to read

How to blend?

• Pedagogies• Find an article• upload onto www.conceptboard.com• share reflections via Blog in iVLE

Article

www.JCE.DivCHED.orgVol. 85 No. 11 November 2008 Journal of Chemical Education

Communicating about matter with symbols: evolving from alchemy to chemistry

Blog

Pedagogies / Strategies

• R2D2[read the article , reflect by posting comments/questions/blog, do by participating in blog, display by annotating]

• Bloom’s Taxonomy Level 2- Understanding; Reading and Reasoning;

• Blended learning[ICT+face-2-face]

Outcomes

Collaboration between students Immediate feedback use of highlighter, shapes, scribble to annotate

important information Others can read what others have written so that all

have the idea of the entire article

Aspects of SDL

Ownership of learningManagement and monitoring of own learning

Aspects of CoL

Effective Group Processes

Student’s blog

• Lim Yi Fan“This lesson had been rather insightful, and allowed me to better understand how Chemistry had come to be what it is today. I also find this method of learning quite enjoyable, as we are allowed to explore and understand the contents at our own pace, and discuss and share our understanding of the concepts with others.”

Student,s blog

• Chan Chin Kiat“All in all, I feel that the concept of Conceptboard is really good and has enhanced my learning experience. It allows for real-time collaboration between classmates and we could highlight the text for each other so that we could more focused on our reading. Furthermore, when we have any doubts, we could comment on the article and we are able to listen to our friends’ views, allowing more information to be circulated beyond the article.”

Student’s blog

• Jonah Heng“We owe the founding fathers of alchemy and chemistry a lot. Not only should we be grateful to their selfless contributions, we should carry on their spirit of 自强不息 , passion and ingenuity to pave a better future for future generations to come.”

Student’s blog

• Joshua Lim“All these are interesting discoveries and I hope we would have more of such activities in future.”

Thank you