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In Chapter 11 I learned about how students and teachers use technology to assess learning. Several ideas such as Digital Portfolios, Online Surveys for Pre assessments, and Digital Portfolio Resources were discussed in this chapter.
A digital portfolio is a collection of educational and professional materials stored in an electronic format. It's an organized way for both teachers and students to keep their materials to show their growth and development over time. Some things you might find in a digital portfolio could be digital copies of paper materials, videos, audio, Powerpoint's, or photos. I think that digital portfolios are a great idea for students. Especially at a younger age level, it'll be easier for students and parents to look at an entire folder of their work from the school year. This will give them a better understanding of all the improvements they've made over the year. It's also a good way to save to information students learned in class.
Online surveys are an effective way to activate prior knowledge and involve students in the pre assessment process. Online surveys are an easy way for teachers to collect data and document student learning. Pre assessments are usually given before introducing a new lesson or topic. These are given to let teachers know what students already understand about the topic they are about to learn. It helps teachers know what they still have to teach about a subject. I think these are great ideas for the classroom environment. It's a great way for students to anonymously share what they do and do not understand. This way they won't need to feel embarrassed about what they share in the survey, and their classmates will be able to see as anonymous.
A few Digital Portfolio Building Resources discussed in this chapter were TaskStream, iLife, and Apps. TaskStream gives users a variety of different design options. It also includes presentation portfolios, leaning or work portfolios, and resource portfolios. iLife is created by Apple. You can import photos into iPhoto or iMovie and you can add test, titles, keywords and even sound effects. Some Apps listed were Webshots, Issuu, Mixbook, and PikiWiki.
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Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Online surveys not only provide good feedback to the teacher as to students' starting place as a pre-assessment, but they also allow ease of storage and access for comparison. They are also extremely easy to set up in Google Drive (via Google Forms). :)
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