At the end of a lecture or tutorial, you can ask students to reflect on the session: what do they take away, what did they learn or what did they find difficult? They answer using images. Visualisation can give students guidance when answering reflective questions.
- Activity goal
- Reflect
- When
- In class
- Where
- Offline | Online
- Duration
- < 10 minutes
- Group size
- Small
Step-by-step
Step 1
Reserve time in your lecture for this activity (at least 5 minutes).
Step 2
Ask a reflective question about the lecture. For example: what are important insights, what is still difficult, what goes well, what do you take with you to next time, what did you learn?
Step 3
Let students answer by choosing an image. This can be their own image or one chosen by you (see tools and materials). It is important to ask for an explanation, as this stimulates the student's reflection process and you will gain more knowledge from this. You can carry out this last step in several ways:
- Ask some pupils for explanations.
- Have pupils in pairs or groups tell each other the explanation.
- Online, you can ask students to share the images on a Miro board with their name attached.
- Offline, there are two options: you can bring your own images for them to choose from (printed out) or you can ask them to look something up on the internet themselves and show it on their phone, tablet or laptop.
Consider the tools and materials mentioned here as suggestions. In many cases it’s possible to use alternative tools. Please turn to the Learning & Innovation team of your faculty first to see which online and offline tools are available and how to apply them.
Step-by-step
Step 1
Reserve time in your lecture for this activity (at least 5 minutes).
Step 2
Ask a reflective question about the lecture. For example: what are important insights, what is still difficult, what goes well, what do you take with you to next time, what did you learn?
Step 3
Let students answer by choosing an image. This can be their own image or one chosen by you. You can use Miro, here students can upload their own image. Or you can upload images and students can dot vote. Another option is to paste images in your PowerPoint, share your screen and use the ‘annotate’ function in Zoom or Teams to let students vote.
It is important to ask for an explanation, as this stimulates the student's reflection process and you will gain more knowledge from this. You can carry out this last step in several ways:
- Ask some pupils for explanations.
- Have pupils in pairs or groups tell each other the explanation. Use break out rooms.
This activity can be conducted online via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Possibility to use Miro or annotate function.
