The T3
Tesmer Tech Tuesday - Reflection & Curation
Happy Thursday (still a T, but 2 days late!) Here's your bi-weekly dose of some groovy tech integration strategies!
We may use reflection through a mirror like Derek Zoolander to look at how really really ridiculously good looking we all are, but as educators, we know that academic reflection has so much more to do in life than thinking about being, well, ridiculously good looking!
This week's spotlight is on...
WHY WE DO THIS
Reflection
[ understanding content + who are you as a learner + apply to future learning ]
Curation
[ a way gather the students' stuff (work, reflections, etc.) ]
A reflective classroom is one that is devoted to pausing and looking back on students' learning journeys. Teaching students to do this well is challenging and takes time, so we must give them opportunities to practice this skill through both oral and text-based reflections.
Why use technology for this? It allows for a rich, reflective process stream from all students, and we curate these digital reflections to look at individual thinking over time.
TIP: model with students how you reflect or set goals on something non-content related and have students practice this, too.
JUKEBOX TUNES: select a track to use for curating stuff
Track 1
- take videos
- watch and comment to peers' videos via video
if you want to see a state of collective metacognition - use this!
Track 2
- take pictures of creations & add text or record their voice
- create a video recording
- type a note
- add voice recording or draw on to annotate a picture
- upload a file from Google Drive
if you want the swiss army knife of tools that can do it all - use this!
Track 3
- add images/graphs
- add text (like digital sticky notes)
- add videos
if you want a simple way to find everything in one view, use this!
OPEN MIC: HOW YOU CAN TRY (REFLECTION STRATEGIES)
CLASSIC HIT: QUICK REFLECTION SENTENCE STEMS #1
- students complete the stems "I used to think..." and "but now I think..."
- students type, record audio, or video record their response via flipgrid, seesaw, padlet, or google classroom
PLAY IT AGAIN: THINK-PIC-SHARE
- students think about summarizing what they've learned
- students find a picture (or take a picture) that represents the summary of their learning, and add thoughts via text or audio with the picture
- students share this picture/thought via flipgrid, seesaw, padlet, or google classroom
It's great because...
we are giving them the opportunity to create something amazing showing their unique thoughts and understanding AND they can compare their understanding to the ideas from their classmates.
Bonus Track! Create a template for this using Google Slides and place student names on each slide to easily curate a class' Think-Pic-Share. Students can add pictures and text to their designated slide and give comments to peers' slides. Want to get fancy with photo editing? Have students check out Canva!
CHART CLIMBER: 1 MINUTE VIDEO SELFIE
- students think about responding to a variation of the following questions: Where am I? Where am I going? How am I going to get there?
- students respond with a 1-min or less video recording via flipgrid, seesaw, or padlet
DEBUT SINGLE: SCREENCASTING
- students open the chrome browser to the website/document they want to talk about or reflect on
- students select a tool like screencastify (Chromebrowser extension) and record video of what is on their screen
- students narrate their explanations and reflections walking through their learning process from interacting with a digital document
It's great because...
this format asks for oral-practice of reflection vs. written and provides a deeper view of student understanding and thinking of where they're at in their own words.
Bonus Track! use this any time you'd normally have students create a slideshow to present to the entire class. Have students screencast record their slideshow with their narration over it. Students can turn into Google Classroom for only the teacher to see, or upload their newly created video presentation to Classroom as a link, or to FlipGrid, SeeSaw, or Padlet as a video file.
Be sure to respond to your students' posts so they know they were heard.
COLLABORATION MIX
What strategies do you use to get students to reflect on their learning process? What ways do you curate this information from them?
UP NEXT 10/17: differentiating work via tech
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