Technology and AssessmentUsing Digital Products to Assess Deep Learning of the Common Core

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Assessment doesn’t have to be scary!

And neither does tech

How do we approach this?

Nouns v. Verbs

Verbs and Nouns (Prensky)

Verbs:

What do we want students to DO?

IntegrateEvaluateProducePublishWriteCollaboratePresent

Nouns:

What tools could they use to do it?

Search EngineKidspiration/InspirationGoogle DocsTwitterBloggerStory BirdWix

The list of tasks is overwhelming

So is the list of tools

Project-Based LearningEncourage Creativity

Promote Doing/Making

ELA Common Core

"Just as media and technology are integrated in school and life in the twenty-first century, skills related to media use (both critical analysis and production of media) are integrated throughout the standards.” http://www.corestandards.org/resources/key-points-in-english-language-arts

“Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline. They are familiar with the strengths and limitations of various technological tools and mediums and can select and use those best suited to their communication goals.”http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/introduction/students-who-are-college-and-career-ready-in-reading-writing-speaking-listening-language

The Manatee

Let’s reverse engineer that

Step 1: Choose a TopicCollaborate with group members

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Step 2: Research the Topic

Teacher emphasis on multiple, varied sources 

Teacher could create virtual tours or Google Custom Search Engines

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Step 3: Look Up Wordswww.dictionary.com

www.wordcentral.com

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.

Step 4: Evaluate the Resources

Teacher-mediated at this level

“How do you know this is true?”

Progressively more independent and rigorous

Metrics for evaluation - e.g., Kathy Schrock

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

Step 5: Write and Revise the Script

Awareness of the organization and flow of ideas

Awareness of audience and purpose 

Kidspiration/Inspiration, Google Docs CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Step 6: CollaborateDetermine most important items, order of presentation, etc.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Step 7: Peer ReviewFeedback, requiring suggestions for improvement

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Step 8: Select MediaEnhance the presentation

Ethical practice

www.creativecommons.org

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5 Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

Step 9: Record the NarrationSpeak clearly and with inflection

Decide who will say what

CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.CCSS ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Which tool?

It doesn’t matter!

What does this look like at the high school level?

What steps went into that?

What else?Create enhanced podcast analyzing an advertisementMaintain a book review blog (class or individual)Keep a writing portfolio websiteDevelop an accurate wikipedia page about a topic of interestUse Skype and Google Docs to write collaboratively with authors or other students around the globeCreate newscasts about current or historical eventsCreate multiple versions of the same sotry for Twitter, Facebook, email, professional chat rooms, and articles for publication

What about math?

" “When making mathematical models, they know that technology can enable them to visualize the results of varying assumptions, explore consequences, and compare predictions with data. Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.”

“In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other.”

The glory of Minecraft

Reverse engineer THAT!

Grade 3 MathematicsMeasurement and Data

Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.Represent and interpret data.Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.

GeometryReason with shapes and their attributes.

Mathematical PracticesModel with mathematics.Use appropriate tools strategically.

What else?Create instructional videos a la Khan Academy

Use Excel or Google Spreadsheets to record real-time data, examine the influence of change using functions, and create graphic representations

Model data using infographics

Use GeoGebra for, well, anything

e.g., re-create a picture using integrals

Search for ResourcesHundreds of new resources for technology and the Common Core, just ask Google!

Great stuff on www.livebinders.com

Edutopia always has excellent suggestions, including: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-math-high-school-matt-davis and http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ccss-middle-school-math-tech-monica-burns

Check out www.21things4teachers.net

Bottom line: Everything you’ve heard here all

week!

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