Brigita Praprotnik, Prva gimnazija Maribor

Using Facebook group as means of occasional communication and learning through homework has been in use with my students for a few years. They took this way of work as a normal part of the learning process and so I could introduce a novelty: each week a student was appointed as a keeper of the group with the task to teach his classmates something new. Being put in the position to carry out this demanding task they had to use previously acquired knowledge of critical evaluation of the suitable material and sources, which they searched on the internet. Moreover they had to show their knowledge of asking essential questions, which would stimulate their classmates’ contemplation and show their ability of judgement with well developed arguments. Student keepers took over the evaluation of the task, mostly by using the »sandwich« technique of communicational skills for feedback. Introducing the new way of work did not run smoothly, the students needed some time to accept their classmate as a »teacher«. The increasing sense of responsibility has been noted on each side from one task to another.