Let's say you want to see if your students have done the reading. Surveilling student behavior in a social annotation tool is not the way! Here's a quick thread on ways you *can* tell if students have done the reading that's not conducted in the spirit of policing. (1/6)
Note: students prob won't be all that motivated to do the reading if they don't have a clear purpose for doing so. So, be explicit about the reading task: are they reading for content? Are they reading it to understand the genre (i.e. to understand a scientific paper)? Why read?
#1: Try a "3-2-1" exercise where students identify 3 moments in the reading they found interesting, 2 they found confusing/unclear, and 1 question they had after finishing. It's a simple exercise, but invites students to consider their responses in multiple ways. (2/6)
#2: Ask students to contribute to a digital pinboard of fav quotes from the reading. You could set a number around the minimum amount of contributions (a clear task often helps). Call it your class scrapbook. Use the "scrapbook" as a launch point for discussion. (3/6)
#3: Try asking students to respond to the reading with GIFs, emojis, or images rather than text. What are their reactions to particular moments in the reading? If they had to create an "Instagram story" of their favorite reading moments, what would it look like? (4/6)
#4: If the reading is super long and complicated, divide it into chunks. Assign different chunks to different people in the class. Then, do a jigsaw-style activity where students who read different sections are clustered together and they teach each other what they read. (5/6)
Just a few starting ideas that aren't "read and reflect" or "read and post a discussion board post" or "let me 'catch you' if you didn't happen to click on the reading I posted in the LMS." There's more where all of this came from: wvupressonline.com/node/865 (6/6)
Oh, and a thought I'd be remiss not to mention: if you want students to be looking for one specific thing in a reading (a definition, an understanding of a process, some historical context), tell them! Transparency is a good thing, and it'll help strengthen reading acumen.
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