Card Sort Activity

Abstract

This activity was used in EDUC-L700 in Spring 2019. Building upon "Making Thinking Visible" from Harvard's Project Zero, the activity focuses on students' information evaluation process through a card sort. The cards used in the sort are included, including three blank cards where students can list criteria not captured in the other cards. The accompanying slides, entitled "Making Evaluation Visible: Improving the Critical Annotations Assignment through Inquiry" supplement the card sort, giving instructors ideas for facilitating the conversation about how we prioritize criteria. The general outline for the session included: asking students to define cards, doing a deep dive on cost of information/ access, asking students to sort cards in a diamond shape, and then discussing everyone's diamonds differed and which criteria seem to work well together/ be in conflict.