Creating, Exploring and Assessing in a

Digital World

Paul Smith 2013

Our Digital World• The digital world gives children the opportunities to express themselves to

the world in a wide range of areas. They can find their own passion and take it online (blog, wiki, photography)

• We as teachers need to look beyond what we are used to. Break free of our past ideas of how certain things need to be taught and engage with students in new learning technologies.

• Education should no longer be a linear experience. Start here and get to there. This does not happen. People go off in different ways and explore their talents.

• Students who are not great at the traditional forms of assessment can sometimes flourish in the digital world. Boys. Harnessing their enthusiasm.

• Technology and passionate teachers provide an amazing opportunity for change in education.

S.A.M.R.

In the beginning...

Moving Online

• Online work can make assessment easier because students work is all accessible via your computer.

• Students can submit work in their own time online even when they are not in school

• Assessment criteria can be made available to students and accessible 24/7

• Online space where students and teachers can communicate, work and share

• Students love it!

• Easily make groups of students by providing them with a code

• A portal for proving an assessment platform

• Easily upload documents, links, movies for students to view or use as assessment resources

www.edmodo.com

http://www.edmodo.com/

http://www.edmodo.com/

http://www.edmodo.com/

http://www.edmodo.com/

http://www.edmodo.com/

Take a tour

• User name: oxfordteststudent

• password: 123456

www.edmodo.com

• www.weebly.com

• Free Web based, web creation tool.

• Easy to use

• Create blogs

• Open ended platform with great potential for all students

• Easily managed by teachers for powerful assessment

‘Should I publish to my Teacher or the world?’ Alan November

• Year 6 Students were given the task of creating an informative project on a desert.

• How can we redefine the task so that it will capture the enthusiasm and potential of our student?

• I introduced Weebly to the students and taught the basic skills of creating and publishing a webpage.

• Setting up the task meant creating a mock site with general guidelines. Students could visit this site at

• http://desertsafari.weebly.com

Managing Students on Weebly

http://thegreatsandydesert.weebly.com/

Interactive Displays With Weebly Pages

• Google the site qrcode.kawa.com

• Free QR Generator tool for scanning with mobile devices

• A free space to collaborate with students on a topic

• Easy to setup and easy for students to access

• Simple concept many great uses

• Class discussions, questions, links, images, timelines, biographies, assessment

www.padlet.com

Formerly Wallwisher

Nearpod

• Deb Class lists

Nearpod

Dropbox & Drive• Dropbox and Google Drive are online storage

solution that allows users to share folders with others so that they easily access the same files. Drive and Dropbox can be downloaded as an app or software for Mac or PC.

• I use Dropbox to collect student iPad work for assessment. Year 2 students are able to...

• access assessment tasks

• complete the task on the iPad

• save the completed work into their own folder which I have access too.

Dropbox & Drive

Teacher shares a folder with student on Dropbox

Teacher saves an assignment to the shared folder

Student completes task and clicks save which updates

the shared file to the teacher and student.

Dropbox & Drive

Google Drive Online Docs

• Google Drive gives us the ability to share files and folders but also work on these files simultaneously (real time)

• Students share a folder with a teacher in Drive and the teacher has access to that folder for assessment documents, editing, revision etc.

Students share a folder that pops up on teachers Google Drive

• A new way to hand in work

• A great way to store your files

• A brilliant way to share files

Google Drive Online Docs

Google Drive Online Docs

Numbers

• Everyone has used Excel to enter in student data at some stage. having the freedom to move around the class and take fast, anecdotal notes on student checklists makes assessment easier. I use Numbers to make fast appraisals of student achievement levels without having to write down and retype information in later on. Great for outside work, P.E., field trips, camps or just moving amongst your students.

• Deb Class lists

• Video PE

• Demo

Numbers

Explain EverythingExplain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screen casting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.

Cost: $2.99

Publisher: MorrisCooke

App Store rating: ****

The Good•Powerful app that is very open ended•Great for year levels from 1 - 12•Wide range of tools to incorporate web, photos, videos•Computer based player software available

The not so Good•Takes a while to get the hang of•Exporting can take a while from the iPad•Videos can make files very large

EXPLAIN EVERYTHING

Educational Value•Students learn by explaining a concept•Speaking, writing, sequencing, editing, publishing

Explain EverythingStarting out:

Year 1 students teach each other how to draw

iPad: Explain Everything

• $2.99 in the apps store

• Explain everything is an excellent tool for gaining deeper understanding of students comprehension. Essentially the app records what's happening in the screen so that the user can draw, talk, move objects, insert images/video/websites.

• Teachers can really see and hear if a students understands the concepts they are trying to explain. To really understand something we should know how to teach it.

• Once recorded the video files can be shared via Dropbox, email or synced to iTunes.

iPad: Explain Everything

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