Cogneeto - peerScholar Assignment

What will we do?

In this phase each student in this Lot Learning Circle will write a paper to UNICEF.
We will use the process of peer learning to write and reflect in a very creative way. By giving and receiving feedback to/from two peers in the Circle we ask you to critically think about a new right for all children. One you haven’t yet seen during our journey with Lot. Reflect and collaborate with your two global classmates to create a new children's right to add to the 54 already existing ones. What can you do to ensure that your own identified new children’s right is successful?

Why will we do it?

This way of thinking about a new right for children and working together on an assignment by giving each other feedback, makes it possible to really make a more 'individual global connection'.
After 13 weeks of reading and seeing beautiful contributions of groups from different countries, you now can use all your critical and creative skills to give positive and constructive comments on the papers of two of your global classmates. This is what we call 'formative assessment'.
The whole purpose is not only to appreciate,assess and use this feedback. Important is also to help each other to improve your written papers and to enjoy how this is possible by connection with two other students in the Lot Learning Circle.
Crossing boundaries in this community of global classrooms, without feeling any!

What is Cogneeto - peerScholar?

Cogneeto is an innovative on-line pedagogical tool that supports students’ collaboration, learning and reflection.

Supported by research, peerScholar allows teachers to offer their students subject-based and cross-curricular assignments that really bring learning a step further.
Within Cogneeto, a teacher can use existing or create new assignments with matching rubrics and learning criteria.

Sharing assignments, addressing specific learner needs and tracking student achievement are really easy within this tool.
Cogneeto facilitates learning through 3 phases;

1. create,
2. assess
3. reflect/revise.

Students first submit their assignment, then they give feedback to their peers work, and finally they reflect on and learn from the peer feedback that they receive.

How will we do it?

Cogneeto/peerScholar is an online web based tool that works best in the following browsers:

To access Cogneeto /peerScholar please go to http://cogneeto.com

Then you will see the login screen:

Please enter the login as sent to you by email; each student will have an individual login username and password.

Once the

The Create Phase

This first phase starts opens on May 5th. In this Cogneeto/peerScholar phase students submit a digital assignment. When you enter cogneeto.com you can login:

The button labeled “Assignment” will always be present, and students can click on them any time to be reminded of the overall assignment.

Students will read the assignment and can find 'Instructions & Tips' at the bottom of the page.  

The Assess Phase.  

This phase opens on May 9th. When students log in to the assess phase they are presented with two randomly selected and anonymously presented peers submissions.  Their primary task is to evaluate these submissions in a manner that provides each peer with a sense of the quality of their work and at least one well-presented idea about how that work could be improved. As they work through these pieces they must contrast and compare to ascertain quality, and their own submission is available to them through this process.  Thus critical thought and self-reflective thought come together as students not only see how their work compares to that of their peers, but also get clear ideas about those aspects that distinguish higher quality work.

They will be asked to provide two written comments, giving each peer specific and rich comments about what they liked in the submission of their peer and give advice about one thing they could do to make their work better. 

Students must complete their assessments by Tuesday May 13th. 

The Reflect/Revise Phase. 

Once the phase opens, at Wednesday May 14th, students see the comments and assessments that their peers provided for their draft submission.  

After reading their peers feedback carefully, each student will indicate how useful the feedback was. They will use it to revise and improve their original submission.

As a final step students will be asked to write a short reflection piece, to justify how and why they revised their work in light of some comments but not others.

When will we do it?

Date & Time (in Dutch/Hungary time zone):

Phase 1 - each student creates a paper in Cogneeto

• Opens Monday May 5 - 07:00 am
• Closes Friday May 9 - 06:00 am

Phase 2 - peer feedback on the work of two other peers

• Opens Friday May 9 - 07:00 am
• Closes Wednesday May 14 - 06:00 am

Phase 3 - receive feedback from two peers and review

• Opens Wednesday May 14 - 07:00 am
• Closes Wednesday May 21 - 23:00 pm

Survey

• Opens Wednesday May 14 - 07:00 am
• Closes Wednesday May 21 - 23:00 pm

Time zone’s

• Canada is - 6 hrs.
• Curacao is -6 hrs.
• Hungary is 0 hrs.
• Lebanon +1 hrs.
• Netherlands 0 hrs.
• Ukraine +1 hrs.
• Romania +1 hrs.
• Suriname -5 hrs.

Assignment

Call for Papers - International Conference 25 Years CRC

On November 20th 2014 the World celebrates the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). UNICEF has opened a ‘Call for Papers’ to invite youth to propose one extra Child’s Right to be added to the present Convention. During the 12 weeks of your circle participation you have seen a lot of information about the present Children's Rights and how the world is dealing with it. We ask you to write a paper (1A4/500 words) to UNICEF in which you include:

• A brief personal introduction

• Your lessons learned and eye-openers during the Learning Circle process

• Your own, new, to be added, Child Right and your motivation why you think this specific Right needs to be highlighted.

Instructions and tips

During this first phase you will write your paper. During phase 2, the assess phase you are invited to give feedback on the work of two of your global circle classmates. In phase 3 you will receive  and read feedback from two global circle peers, after which you can revise your work and benefit from your peers suggestions.

Place yourself in the position of the UNICEF committee; they will receive thousands of papers. What can you do to make your paper ‘out standing’?

Remember to click on <save and continue> at the end of each step.