What’s the metaphor in the first stanza?.…. It’s not a massive spot-lit gotcha it’s just a normal everyday expectation. Attention is secured by students knowing that they could be asked a question about what is happening – more or less at any time. This is one of main goals of a good repertoire of questioning techniques: to create a culture where students’ default to expecting to answer all the questions, thinking for themselves. But a good task is one you can’t do without thinking using your prior knowledge and focusing your attention. The motivation then comes from knowing it will be checked or simply the norm-nudging effect that everyone else is also doing it. The short-loop is about the task being quick enough to do and then check a) that it’s been done by everyone and b) that it is as valid or accurate as the material requires, without the class diverging too much. To be truly generative, the students have to do these things mainly on their own, using their own knowledge – not borrowing from others.
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