New on Juicy Geography is the remixed version of Hannah’s Pixton homework, one of the many brilliant outcomes from a recent homework activity.
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The idea was to use Pixton to create a comic strip explaining the Common Agricultural Policy. I guess I could have got Hannah to print her work out, so that I could splatter some red ink comments liberally over the spelling errors but I really wasn’t inclined to do so – it’s a super piece of work; witty, imaginative and explaining the details of the CAP remarkably accurately, at least as well as any GCSE textbook.
Remixing instead of marking:
I loved the homework so much that I wanted to use it as a teaching resource. I remixed it very gently, correcting some of the spelling mistakes and removing a duplicate frame. The finished result should be useful to several students that missed the exciting lesson on farming politics to play in the recent snow; indeed by publishing the cartoon on Juicy Geography, Hannah’s work could possibly benefit a much wider audience.
I think this exercise is a great illustration of the argument proposed by Harold Jarche and George Siemens (who I discovered via Theo Kuechel’s post on re-usability), that the best education content should be hackable (re-mixable and re-useable) The CAP itself is a constantly evolving news story, that rapidly dates textbooks. In the future, Hannah’s work can be remixed by students to reflect changes in the policy.
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Tell Hannah ‘Well done’ – I love it!
Nice piece of work Hannah, one that I’ll use as well.
Completely agree with your comments about resources being hackable, particularly the use of student produced work, that can then become teaching resources or used for effective AFL.
Remember the OU conference, I remember the comment about teachers of online resources having a responsbility to the community !), but this negates the responsbility of the teacher to ‘remix’ the resources depending on students they teach.
Like the homework a lot: similar to the Photoshop tennis idea that was at Teachmeet Bett where an image was altered and passed backwards and forwards…
I also like your Tag Cloud in the right hand column: v cool !