"I am writing to inform you that we as a Faculty have discussed the idea further and are not able to contribute to the project."thus emailed a school contact, disengaging from our project. I didn't get the marketing right, not for this public for our research. The gatekeepers are school teachers, the people that would have to orchestrate the classrooms and timetables while the students juxtapose their learning with their own performed ideas. And my targeting email got it wrong.
However, my colleague, Gill has been working on this and written a one page hand-out that starts:
JuxtaLearn is a large EU-funded project that aims to help students overcome the barriers presented by Tricky Topics which often cause students to give up a subject. During initial trials, 74% of students showed progression in their quiz results over the course of the day. The JuxtaLearn Workshops can be run as a series of sessions. All sessions and supporting tools are free to schools. The first session is with researchers and teacher(s) and takes place before the student sessions. Student sessions are flexible; they can run over a full school day, or split into smaller sessions with activities taking place pre-‐workshop following the flipped classroom approach.Then she outlines the preparatory session for teacher training and professional development. I particularly like how she shows the radar charts that reveal gaps in student understanding, indicating that teachers will learn to write effective quiz questions that will result in such useful charts.
- JuxtaLearn tricky topic tool and quiz: https://vimeo.com/109829640 (2 minutes 56 secs)
- JuxtaLearn workshop (chemistry): https://vimeo.com/109827064 (3 minutes 21 secs)
- Juxtaposing performance and learning : https://vimeo.com/109331885 (3 minutes)
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