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| Title | "Teaching is Learning": Pedagogical Material Created and Evaluated by Students |
| Authors | Jérémy Barbay, Jocelyn Simmonds, Adriana Nishida, Monael Ribeiro |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Abstract | The action of teaching reinforces one's learning but requires some external quality control when done by non- professionals (e.g., a professor supervising teaching assistants). This quality control is costly and has limited the adoption of peer teaching in schools. Our solution to this problem is to ask students to create pedagogical material that will then be evaluated by the students themselves, where they evaluate a mix of new and already rated materials. One advantage of this technique is that it allows students to develop critical thinking skills, since they must judge if the presented material adequately covers a specific topic. We describe the "Teaching is Learning" project, that implements these ideas. We first discuss two pilot studies: 1) since 2009, engineering students from the University of Chile have been creating and validating pedagogical 3D animations; and 2) during 2015, seventh graders from the Blest Gana secondary school created and evaluated pedagogical videos using their cell phones, editing the videos during their Technology class. We then give an overview of existing work on measuring student learning, and discuss how we can evaluate the effectiveness of our technique. We conclude by describing our plans for implementing the "Teaching is Learning" project at a larger scale during 2016, both in Chile and in Brazil |
| Conference name | Frontiers in Education |
| Publisher | IEEE Education Society (Los Alamitos, CA, USA) |
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