Teaching with Technology
Collaboration, Documentation and Assessment
Reflecting on SAMR
Use the SAMR model to reflect upon how you are integrating technology. Is it act of Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, or Redefinition?
Swimming with SAMR
Group Brainstorm: Building a Masterlist Together
What digital tools are teachers using for collaboration? documenting student learning? assessment?
Connect subject examples with digital tools being used within your schools.
Collaboration
Why are students collaborating online? How can we assess the quality of collaboration?
Documentation
How can teachers effectively use technology to capture and archive student thinking?
With technology, students have the ability to put what they have learned into context. By contextualizing our knowledge, students develop meaningful connections.
Assessment
How can technology be used with assessment, evaluation, and curriculum redesign?
Technology offers educators a variety of new tools that can help teachers track and assess their students' -- as well as their own -- performance in the classroom. It can also create digital records of student growth and development .
Breakout Session One: Collaboration
Option A: Saving to OneDrive & Collaboration Features (Word/PowerPoint)
Document collaboration means several authors work on a document or collection of documents together.
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Students can be simultaneously co-authoring a document or reviewing each others work. Document co-authoring means working on a document simultaneously with one or more users.
Option B: OneNote & Class Notebook
OneNote is a live binder resembles a free form canvas that empowers teachers and students to use visual notes such as images, text, printouts, tables, screenshots, audio recordings, etc.
Students and teachers have the ability to share Notebooks with other collaborators or to use a collaboration space designed by the teacher in Class Notebook.
If teachers are ready, it is always best to create your Notebooks with a class website, under sites. Use the video tutorial below to guide you through the process.
Breakout Session Two: Documentation
Option A: Book Creator
Book Creator is simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad.
Using Book Creator in the classroom:
1. To create math journals (Planning Template)
2. To track inquiry logs
3. For reflections and goal setting
Overall Expectations
By the end of Grade 8, students will,
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model linear relationships graphically and algebraically, and solve and verify algebraic equations, using a variety of strategies, including inspection, guess and check, and using a “balance” model.
Operational Sense
By the end of Grade 1, students will:
– solve a variety of problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers to 20, using concrete materials and drawings
Explain Everything
Explain everything is a screen casting and interactive whiteboard app that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
Here are a few ways my students have been using Explain Everything in the classroom:
1. Guided Reading Activity
2. Communicating Findings with Math Problems
3. Demonstrating Understanding of Inquiry
Discussion Activity: Assessment and Digital Tools
Assessment plays a major role in how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach.
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Assessment is used for various purposes.
- Assessment for learning: where assessment helps teachers gain insight into what students understand in order to plan and guide instruction, and provide helpful feedback to students.
- Assessment as learning: where students develop an awareness of how they learn and use that awareness to adjust and advance their learning, taking an increased responsibility for their learning.
- Assessment of learning: where assessment informs students, teachers and parents, as well as the broader educational community, of achievement at a certain point in time in order to celebrate success, plan interventions and support continued progress.
Breakout Session Three: Assessment
Option A: Primary Assessment
2. Using Pic collage to represent Learning Skills
3. Gathering data with Nearpod to drive instruction
By the End of Grade One students will determine, after consultation with the teacher and peers, whether the ideas and information they have gathered are suitable for the purpose
Learning Journey
Demonstrating a Mathematical Concept
Literacy
Option B: Junior/Intermediate Assessment
1. Gathering Feedback through Surveys tools such as Socrative and Google Survey
2. Assessing students and providing immediate feedback with Nearpod
3. Using iMovie to engage students when sharing their knowledge and express their thoughts or reflections in the form of a digital movie.
Google Forms/Socrative
Nearpod
iMovie
creating compelling projects that combine digital video, photos, and music, and even their own voice narration.
Co-creating Success Criteria for the Use of Technology in the Classroom
Learning Goal: We can use technology effectively to support student learning
Success Criteria:
I can…