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Horizon Project:
Peer Review Sounding Board
described in TheThe Horizon Report
You are to peer review and comment on their work. Your comments will be read both by these students and by experts around the world who are evaluating the project. Your main audience is the students. We practiced peer reviews and 3 essential steps.
The teams will review:
Impact on science and health
So each topic has 5 wikis for you to review!
discussion tabs. YouYou are to
You will complete the four tasks below on Monday and Wednesday. Complete all work on your Group's wiki page.
Task I

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amount and relevance of graphics and media - comment on that - they all need a little more pictures to explain what they are talking about, If they are able, they should add one movie
Recommendations?- add a little more to what you have, other than that they look great!
comments on wikis:
Human and Machine Communication:compliments: it is very discriptive and gives a lot of detail and picutres
suggestions: honestly, I think it is fine unless you want to add more pictures, movies, or writing.
Impact on Education:compliments: you are making great progress and it shows a lot of discription
suggestions:just write a little more and maybe add a few more pictures and it will be great
Impact on Government, Politics, and Employment:compliments: good job, it shows a lot of discription and it has good grammar
suggestions: you shoould add a little more writing and pictures. Maybe if you can you should add a movie
Impact on Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure:
compliments: you have no spelling errors.............
suggestions: write and add pictures
Impact on Science and Health:
compliments: it is very descriptive
suggestions: it is off to a good start, but you need more writing and pictures

What would you expect to find out in each trend's section?- about how machine and human communication will help us in the future
How will you decide if the project team has done a good job of their trend?- if they explain well and show a lot of clarity, pictures and a lot of writing
Quality of Content
Does the content (writing) make sense? -yes
Can you identify any areas which need clarification? - no, they all were very clear
Pose three questions that arise from your reading - it could be questions about ambiguity of content, questions that were not addressed, or questions that you had after reading it (you would like more information). -no questions
Communication
Look at the Discussion pages of the wiki pages - effective communication? - yes, people are helping them and are giving good messages to help them
Do they need more? - some need more than others
Are they clear in their messages to each other? - some of them are, some give great ideas and some just say "awesome" without giving advice
Is there a sense of negotiation and collaboration? -yes
Collaboration
Does the work appear to be equally shared? - at most times, sometimes it seems like the same person is writing all of it
Does there appear to be any difficulties by one or more members of the team? -no
Presentation - Layout and Design
amount and relevance of graphics and media - comment on that - some of them look great and some of them don't have anything, all of them should add more pictures and even a movie if they are able to
Recommendations? - keep it up, write with a lot of clarity and make a lot of examples, and add pictures

Read and discuss the wikis . Discuss these questions as a group:
trend itself? well we know that it helps us use computers and electronics
Why do the future? it is important so that it will become esaser to use electronics
If the to understand? add more visual aids and more discription
What would trend's section? what the title talks about
How will you decide if the project team has done a good job of their trend?

What would you expect to find out in each trend's section?~More about robots and things they can do.
How will you decide if the project team has done a good job of their trend? ~If you can understad what their saying along with comprehending what they are trying to endorse.
Use the criteria below to evaluate the each group's work. Be sure to remember that they are only about half-way through their project. This means that your comments will help them make their work even better! Think of this as a standard Peer Review and use constructive comments to help improve their work.
Take notes and provide feedback (on your Feedback Page) for each criteria listed below.
NOTE: Your feedback will be evaluated by a panel of experts using this rubric.
Peer Evaluation Criteria
Quality of Content
Does the content (writing) make sense?
Can you identify any areas which need clarification?
Pose three questions that arise from your reading - it could be questions about ambiguity of content, questions that were not addressed, or questions that you had after reading it (you would like more information).
Communication
Look at the Discussion pages of the wiki pages - effective communication?
Do they need more?
Are they clear in their messages to each other?
Is there a sense of negotiation and collaboration?
Collaboration
Does the work appear to be equally shared?
Does there appear to be any difficulties by one or more members of the team?
Presentation - Layout and Design
amount and relevance of graphics and media - comment on that
Recommendations?

itself? - we are headed toward an age of machine and human communication where we can have many advancements in technology
Why do the future?- it will improve our levels of thinking
If the to understand?- use smaller words and give examples to clarify certain things
What would trend's section?- about how machine and human communication will help us in the future
How will their trend?- if they explain well and show a lot of clarity, pictures and a lot of writing

Task 1
What do you understand about the trend itself? We understand that people communicate with machines more than humankind and soon it could be a problem.
Why do you think the trend is important for the future? With this knowledge of technology it could assist us when we want to build future inventions.
If the actual report is written for adults, how could the project teams make the information easier for you to understand?They could make the words easier for them to understand they could also shorten the information so that they could understand the page better.
What would you expect to find out in each trend's section? We would expect to find whatever the subtitle says about the following text.
How will you decide if the project team has done a good job of their trend?If the makers of the page have all of the information requirerd and they have the proper spelling the page will be great.