Sharing: [SS] Connect. Learn. Explore. Assess. Reflect with Genially and Padlet for Express students
Claudia Chew Han Ngee and Koh Rui Ling [Chung Cheng High School (Main)]
Signed up for this session because I thought it was an interesting tool/approach to teach this portion of Chapter 7, on managing socio-economic diversity in a diverse society. This presentation zooms in on the shared responsibility approach of the Singapore healthcare system.
During the enactment, students were given the role of a financial advisor specialising in the area of healthcare. They then researched and clarified the terms and healthcare financing schemes that were introduced to them. With some understanding of the schemes, they sought to advise clients with different profiles by going through a mini escape room created using Genially. By working in groups to get through the escape room, students able to get immediate feedback on their choices to correct their misconceptions. At the end of the lesson, they performed a reflection task on Padlet to consolidate their key takeaways from this learning experience.
My Thoughts and Reflection
There are definitely benefits to using this platform:
I can see how students will enjoy the 'game/challenge' element of the escape room and be more actively engaged as a result.
The decision points (see Slide 1) act as checkpoints for AfL, and allows the teacher to gather evidence of learning - i.e. we can know if students have a clear understanding of the healthcare schemes through their consistent accurate application/demonstration of learning repeatedly (for each of the 3 character profiles).
'Helplines' act as appropriate scaffolds to help students arrive at the right decision.
The questions posed on padlet are useful for consolidation, since it requires students to evaluate the effectiveness of Singapore's healthcare system. It allows students to:
Q1: Conclude whether the healthcare system meets citizens' needs (based on ideas of affordability and accessibility)
Q2 & 3: Come up with solutions to the challenges citizens may face (applicable for SRQ6)
How I may consider modifying/adapting it for use:
I may get students to use this escape room purely as a tool for AfL AFTER going through the SLS lesson on this chapter. In the padlet reflection, we can then possibly get students to elicit the key similarities and differences of the 3 main approaches (market-based, shared responsibility, government-financed)[re: varying degrees of government intervention], and come to the realisation that there will always be trade-offs for whichever approach a government decides to adopt.
Possible extension: how individuals/the community can complement government's efforts in meeting citizens' healthcare needs (Issue 1)
This presentation reminded me of a Geography microteaching lesson I did back in NIE - a 'Choose Your Own Adventure'-type activity where students are tasked to make a series of decisions pertaining to the management of COVID-19 in Singapore (Phase 3).
Lesson Plan: here
Key understanding I wanted to elicit:
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Looking back, I realised that this can also be used for SS haha (Issue 1 - citizens and government's role in working for the good of society).
Teacher Briefing Slides:
Game Slides:
Padlet Consolidation
More reflections on this to come if I happen to execute this lesson in an actual classroom! (and not in a controlled environment with my NIE batchmates and prof pretending to be cheeky students haha)
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