Audio notes

In this video, Zainab Patel, Assistant Headteacher at Olive Tree School (primary), shares how pupils can benefit from audio feedback.

Zainab shares how her school made a move away from written feedback, where there was limited impact on learning and high workload for teachers, to recorded verbal feedback that would help pupils at school, especially pupils with English as an additional language to have greater clarity about the next steps in their learning. Use of voice notes enabled teachers to engage with marking for individual pupils much more efficiently and maximising the potential benefits of immediate feedback. Use of annotations alongside this verbal feedback helped with explanations (as we learned from research evidence in Week 2 of this course).

Thank you to Apple Education staff and Apple Distinguished Schools for creating this content.

If you’re interested in this approach, you may like to read an article written by the co-founder of the Olive Tree School, Abdul Chohan. He shares the benefits the school has experienced by digitising feedback.

The tools mentioned by Zainab are:

• Explain Everything – an interactive whiteboard and video tool
• Showbie – an assignments, feedback and activity tool

Whilst Zainab references the use of iPads, consider what might enable you to achieve similar in your own context if you don’t currently have a 1-1 iPad scheme.

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