Week 6 Part 1: Assessment Tools
Summer 2019 EDCI 318 Technology for Teaching & Learning
Warning: video contains PROFANITY!
Good assessments should verify that:
American students face a ridiculous amount of testing. John Oliver explains how standardized tests impact school funding, the achievement gap, how often kids are expected to throw up.
It's not always about a grade. Sometimes watching students apply their learning, working in groups, or participating in classroom discussions is just as effective.
Thanks to technology, there are lots of fun and effective ways to assess learning in ways that transform your classroom. Here are some options for creating those assessments, or the new buzz work Exit Ticket.
Using Kahoot, EdPuzzle, Quizlet, GoFormative TedED, or Socrative (or a host of others) could be a good way to build introductory and review lessons for students. The option to track your students' progress is nice for anticipating the questions your students might bring to class and for seeing what you might need to review in-person with your students.
I (Bryan Mathers) read this guardian article recently where a woman asked Tinder for all her personal information. They sent her 800 pages worth of data. Apply this to the world of testing, which is increasingly data rich, and it doesn’t take much to make a pessimistic prediction. This thought was originally from a town hall discussion at the E-ATP conference, which I had the pleasure of participating.
All teachers want to bring their lessons to life
Even worse, if Jim had students watch docs at home, they wrote essays for accountability - more work for him!
With no time for more grading, and little room in a packed schedule, Jim turned to Edpuzzle for the solution.
Jim found the best documentaries for his class, and then assigned them through Edpuzzle. The results were surprising: his students were actually watching the videos, some as late as 3AM!
He could arrive in class the day a video was due, confident that his lesson would go well. He knew exactly who watched the video and who understood the content. With the Prevent Skipping and Fastforwarding features, there was no room for kids to get out of the homework on the sly.
Jim didn’t have to use an essay to force students into watching. And he didn’t have to rush to make time for in-class viewing. Edpuzzle freed up his time, both in and out of class, while engaging his students in his course curriculum.
20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom
The Shake Up Learning community is always chatting and sharing digital tools and lesson ideas for the K12 classroom. Recently, they discussed their favorite formative assessment tools for the classroom. Check out my Wakelfor for a list of Assessment tools.
https://wke.lt/w/s/EZc523. As a teacher you will need a variety of types of assessment tools, so keep track of these. Consider making an assessment collection for your Wakelet assignment.
We will be using EdPuzzle for this assignment.
- Edpuzzle: Edpuzzle allows you to turn videos into a quick assessment. Choose a video on YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, or upload your own. Trim the video, insert a quiz anywhere and track your students progress. (Freemium, basic account is free, additional features available with paid accounts.)
HINT: Wakelet Collection on Assessment Tools: Consider making an assessment collection
EdPuzzle: engage your students with Video Assessment with EdPuzzle
EdPuzzle: Add Your Voice and Text Questions to Educational Videos
You are using the FREE version of EDPuzzle as a TEACHER in your BROWSER on your COMPUTER
Create a Lesson Plan and an EdPuzzle Assessment
- Even though there are lots of great tools you could use from the Wakelet list, will be using EdPuzzle.
- Yes, you must use EDPUZZLE.
- Choose a lesson to create your assessment about, maybe you already have a lesson created you could use, like possibility your Adobe Spark Page/Video. (not requi=red to use, but you may.
- Write up that lesson plan on the Lesson plan on the form below.
- Lesson Plan Template in PAGES format, or Lesson Plan Template in WORD format.
- This is the same format you will use in your Student teaching portfolio.
- After you have completed the Lesson Plan, SAVE IT AS A PDF and add the PDF to Seesaw as a file (instructions below for how to add a PDF to Seesaw)
- Find a video from Youtube or one of the other services built into EdPuzzle to use for your assessment.
- You must create your own questions, no you may not use one already created by another teacher.
- MAKE SURE your video SUPPORTS YOUR Lesson Plan.
- Create your assessment, one that could be used with your students to evaluate the learning from your lesson plan.
- IN OTHER WORDS, FOR A GRADE.
- Creating questions is a challenge for every teacher and takes lots of practice. This is your opportunity to create a valuable assessment that is not using bubble sheets!!
- You are using the FREE version of EDPuzzle as a TEACHER in your BROWSER on your computer. Not on your iPad.
- Make sure you create a TEACHER account.
- Check your email and VERIFY your email account.
- The app is only for your students.
- To create, you must use your browser on your COMPUTER.
- Share your interactive video assessment and Lesson Plan in Seesaw.
- Make sure your video assessment is complete (an actual Test), a couple of questions is not sufficient.
- TEN (10) minimum or more if you need them. You must assume this is a real assessment you will be giving your students in your classroom that goes with the lesson you created and taught. So what do your students really need to know and be tested on?
- Add your EDPuzzle using the Public Link to seesaw with the PDF of your lesson plan.
WARNING...WARNING....WARNING...
- Make sure you watch your video several times and create all your questions in advance of entering EdPuzzle to add them.
- After you have all your questions ready, go to Edpuzzle and add ALL questions in one sitting.
- We are using the FREE version, so starting today and finishing tomorrow, for example, doesn't work well, you just have to start over!!
- DO the editing (adding questions) in EDPUZZLE in one sitting!!!
- You are using the FREE version of EDPuzzle as a TEACHER in your BROWSER on your computer.
THERE WILL BE 2 POSTS, YOUR PDF FILE ATTACHED LESSON PLAN AND YOUR EDPUZZLE URL LINK
Grading Checklist
- 50 Points: Lesson plan added to Seesaw as a PDF.
- 100 points: EDPuzzle video assessment added to Seesaw using the Public Link.