Since my post about backchanneling and peer editing, I’ve had to chance to try out backchanneling a little more. I still have a ton to learn, but here are some of my preliminary thoughts. The first class I tried backchanneling with, it went really well. The students were peer editing some comics they had made and I was in shock.
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To be honest, I’ve always had a little bit of trouble with peer editing. Students always seemed to look at each others’ work, then say “looks pretty good to me” or something equally descriptive. My hunch is that I never really scaffolded it well enough. I’d forget that many students aren’t use to trying to differentiate quality work from mediocre
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