Using visualisers to give whole-class feedback

Visualisers help you feedback to the whole class at once by projecting specific samples of student work while you model answers, defuse common misconceptions and provide scaffolding to better performance. What does it mean? Feedback can take many forms, but marking is one of the most common – and the workload associated with traditional marking is problematic. Technology can be used to ameliorate the marking load while improving the efficacy of feedback. Explaining to students where they are, where they need to be and how to get there is the key to effective feedback because it directs students’ actions toward achieving a specific goal. Small but powerful tweaks to your practice – where you use a visualiser to explore common errors and model examples to promote progress and greater understanding – can really help. They allow you to deliver targeted feedback to a whole class at once. This is much less time-consuming and arguably as effective as individual ‘what-went-we