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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