Very interesting session.
Trialed OH&S exploratory and door quiz exercises with 5 students. (one/two at a time, with others continuing to work on their buildings)
First one solo. Realised he was asking us and other sts about the questions throughout, gaining knowledge. We then decided to continue the trial in pairs, which worked well - sts bouncing off one another to answer the questions and find the unsafe practices.
Gave them same paper test as last week - initial impression is that they have been filled in to a much greater level of detail, will be interesting to see marked results.
Also noted need to develop exercises in tandem with students. Throughout they were pointing out things we had missed in-world (as construction luddites) such as other unsafe practices eg planks of wood lying on ground. This will help us greatly. We will also need to add more unsafe examples in the exploratory exercise, as well as examples that ARE safe.
One interesting thing that came up is the issue of prompts in relation to the exploratory exercise. Our team was prompting students at times to look for more examples ("you got 2 to go" etc). Should we prompt? Our conclusion is:
- yes - if we want DEVELOP knowledge, to facilitate the most amount of knowledge gain
- no - if we want to TEST knowledge (want to replicate real life, where workers need to be alert to unsafe practices)
General impression is that, if familiar with virtual worlds, sts don't need much in the way of guidance to do the tasks except for something at the beginning of the structured door quiz to give them some context
Focus group at end - univerally positive, want to keep doing it, see it as fun and that they've learned more about OH&S
Issue of trees - pranking:putting trees into others' buildings etc. Big 'No Trees' message on whiteboard
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