Teaching Paperless

It was a nice moment right at the end of the year this year with my Literature class. It was the second last lesson I think and we were sitting around talking about what they felt they needed to know in terms of any unanswered questions. I’d found a few online quizes and tests on Emma, Hamlet and Frankenstein and I’d put together my own little quiz on Gwen Harwood as a PowerPoint, just for fun really, and to confirm to them that they did indeed know these texts pretty well.

But when I asked them to get out a piece of paper for the quiz, they refused. After a year of teaching paperless they weren’t going to go backwards in the last lesson. So, rather than fire up the laptops, the phones came out and they wrote down their quiz answers. I’d been telling them about our paperless experiment but that was ages ago, so it was nice they remembered, and wanted to end the year in that fashion.