Get It Wrong! Teaching and Learning Strategy

This was an activity I used with great succcess. Can be used in class but is also great for homework.Students are given a question, needs to really be an extended answer question or an accounting and finance question, something like completing a cash flow forecast.Then, students need to write a wrong answer. Not completely wrong, but some wrong elements or mistakes. This is where the teaching and learning comes in. In order to think of 'good' mistakes you really need to know the material. Its a sort of 'reverse' beat the teacher (link to that blog here)After this, students swap their answers and they need to try and work out what the errors are.Easy