Supporting learning
e-TASC is ideal for structuring learners' thinking during project work e.g. D&T or art projects, coursework and science enquiries.
- Encourages learners to take control of their own work and work out how to organise it.
- Helps develop metacognition by encouraging users to work out what they already know about a subject and what they still need to learn.
- Encourages learners to think about what types of thinking they are using at each step.
- Helps users think about the most important questions to answer and which order to answer them in.
- Learners are encouraged to work out which concepts and ideas are connected and to come up with their own questions.
- Users are encouraged to think about what went well and how they might make their project even better. through the assessing my project document.
- Central to the process is the ability to explain their ideas to other people and learners are encouraged to use evidence to back up their ideas.
- Prompts users to talk through their ideas to themselves and to try to explain them to someone else, a friend, a parent or a teacher.
- Provides a supportive environment for students to take risks with their learning – it encourages them to try out different approaches and strategies and to evaluate their approaches.
- Provides a supportive environment for users to take risks with their learning – it encourages them to try out different approaches and strategies and to evaluate their approaches.
- Allows teachers to give individual feedback and manage users online.
- Gives teachers the opportunity to promote peer evaluation and encourage collaborative work by manipulating the templates users have access to in the students and classes section.