Visual+Ranking+Tool

Using the Tool as a Teaching and Learning Strategy
 * encourages group work
 * encourages discussion
 * goal setting - prioritse
 * verbalise thoughts
 * evaulate activity - what did they like / not like about a unit
 * feedback for the teacher
 * justification

Encouraging Higher Order Thinking > empathy
 * using prior knowledge
 * justify why they are ranking something
 * evaluating
 * accounability of choices
 * synthesis, analysis, comparison, compromise
 * analysing perspective
 * consideration of other points of view

Incorporating the Tool into your teaching practice engaging
 * interested
 * accessable
 * student enjoyment

Positives & Negatives
 * non-threatening
 * no right or wrong answer
 * technology might not work
 * difficult for teacher to cross reference - teams have to be looked at one by one
 * can add feedback, change thinking
 * can be applied to lots of different areas and in different ways