Pitfall #5: Ignore the ways students learn from each other.
From my experience teaching a WIC course in French, I find that peer review is essential in learning. To avoid this particular pitfall, I will use the “Collaborations” feature in Canvas to initiate peer-review, in addition to my own (instructor) feedback. Students learn a lot from each other’s writing and from reciprocal corrections.
For a short writing assignment, for example, students will be paired to work on their respective texts (first version only), using some guidelines as well as a rubric for peer-review. We will be using the built-in peer review feature in Canvas for this type of assignment. To discuss a particular issue, we will use the Collaborations feature instead.
I will use this model again for the first version of their final paper around Week 6.
