Engaging Teachers and Students in Learning and Self-Reflection
1. How can students become actively involved in assessment and evaluation using technology?
When wanting to reel in students into assignments or certain tasks technology is the "go-to" tool. Children's eyes are caught quickly to attention when they are using a computer, tablet, IPod, etc. It makes an assessment for fun and easy for them, it is an everyday use of theirs, and applying it in school is what they want. Using technology is what they look foward to in a classroom, you can positive results and better yet, actively invovled students! I personally use technology in my classroom and I see the constant gain of knowledge with my students. Since they are drawn in to the technology device, it makes it simple for them to learn. I find it very nessecary to intergrate technology within education. When wanting to have students participate, you need to bring material that is fimilar to them, and technology based material is what they connect to best now a days.
2. Tech Tool 11.2 - Online Survey Building Resources
Online Survey's is a foreign topic to me, but the concept of having an effecting way to assess prior knowledge is a great idea to me. Not only does this invlove students to recollect what they have learned but it lets you as an educator see what they have learned also. Online Surveys also take in information that students would like to learn in the future. It is easy for students to use these type of surveys because there really is no "wrong" and "right", it's pure opinion and self-knowledge. This Tech Tool shows teachers certain online tools that can help them get together their students opinions and knowledge on certain topics. Zoomerang is one of the "easy-to-use" online survery building tools shown. It gives teachers the opportunity to have different topics and themed surveys to build. I can see teachers using this in every day lessons, to me it is very quick and easy to use. I enjoy how you can even change the design of the survey to make it your own. This tool can be used in my classroom to see what my students prefer and know from past teachings.
3. Summary
Chapter eleven is based on teaching teachers how to use digital portfolios and any performance assessment technologies to evaluate their students own learning. It also focuses on how students will be evaluating their peers using technology based tools. Chapter eleven shows how student participation can increase when using participation systems such as Online Surveys. Self-reflective learning is what helps students grow and help shape their education. Being a student at Edison, I constantly am self-evaluation aswell as peer-evaluating and it honestly build you up as a student. I find it easier to fix your downfalls and learn from it when using performance assessment technologies. I have grown academically by being fully invovled by using my personal reflection.
Maloy, R. W. (2011). Transforming learning with new
technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
Honest and frequent assessment is an important feedback tool to determine learning. Fortunately, the use of technology has made that feedback more usable - despite the prolific increase of standardized tests.
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