Reading over this chapter “Engaging students in
Performance Assessment and Reflective Learning”, I found some pretty interesting ideas and
concepts that will further the world of teaching and how technology is
incorporated into it.
The first concept I enjoyed reading about was the use of
a democratic classroom. The democratic classroom can be a place where students
and teachers now make important decisions together based on how the classroom
operates educationally; from an academic standpoint to the rules of the room. I
think this idea gives students a chance to become more engaged in what they’re
learning. Instead of a strict agenda from the beginning of school until the end
of the year, the students may feel like they were a part of what they’re going
to learn and it should make them feel more incorporated into the lesson plan.
Created by: Brandon Hurley
A second concept I thought was a pretty good idea was the
creation of the digital teaching portfolio. The portfolio would contain all the
teacher’s important collections of his or her educational material virtually.
This is a pretty big change that teachers will be getting used to because
everything we know is turning digital, especially in the education field. Take
this class for example, we are learning about variety of ways to create educational
things using web tools. With this portfolio; it’s only making the teacher’s job,
less cluttered and more efficient.
The last concept I like while reading this chapter was
the section where it spoke about the use of online surveys. I think the use of
online surveys is a great way to gauge a student and see where they are at from
an educational stand point, that way you know what you really want to
incorporate into their lesson. Using these surveys will make great use of the
time you have with your students, instead of wasting time on things they might
have a good grasp on; you can now find out exactly what they need help in or
what they don’t have interest in and get working on it.
References:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Hurley, B (November 9th, 2015) The New Digital and Democratic created with Tackk
Online surveys - whether used as a pre-assessment or another way are super easy to administer and analyze...creating them on the fly is another advantage and some programs allow for that. I personally like to use Google Forms as they can then be embedded on my webpage, wiki, or Canvas - they are simple and yet powerful. If you create another Tackk for the future blog posts, be sure to add more to it than an image - you could have written your democratic classroom reflections there for example.
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