Essential question Week 7 continuation

How can technology enhance learning when students aren’t the ones accessing it? How can we create effective assessments using technology? Also respond to the video that we watched about standardized testing-where is the balance and what should we strive for?
Effective assessments through technology can be done by asking students to create presentations. Presentation is a great tool where students can review their work and also others can gain information from it.  
Blogs are great for classroom discussions and this can help the teacher to understand how much students have understood about the subject matter. 
Also , when the tests and quizzes are taken online the students can get immediate results thus helping them to improve themselves for the future without wasting time. 


Our curriculum needs to be based on standardized tests.  Only then, we can insists on our students the importance to these tests.  Our classroom teaching , test should be connected to what is being asked in these tests.  Only then, students will give more importance to these tests and we can better prepare our students for the test. 

Essential question week 5 continuation

Essential question week 5 continuation

How can tools be used to increase understanding? Why can digital storytelling be an authentic assessment? Could digital storytelling be used in your classroom as an assessment? Should students publish their work? 


I believe digital story telling can be considered as an authentic assessment because it can be used to assess student's understanding of the subject matter.  Digital story telling can be used as a part of the final exam . By explaining the concepts they have understood over the semester students can prove what they have learned from the class.  Thus, it can be used as a summative assessment at the end. 


I think , students can or should publish their work only after a careful review of the work by the teacher .  As the work can be seen by anybody after it has been published , lot of effort and hard work has to be put in before the work is published.  But, if the work done by the students is good enough and if others can learn  from it , then it can be definitely published for others to use.

Essential question week 5 continuation

How can tools be used to increase understanding? Why can digital storytelling be an authentic assessment? Could digital storytelling be used in your classroom as an assessment? Should students publish their work? 


I believe digital story telling can be considered as an authentic assessment because it can be used to assess student's understanding of the subject matter.  Digital story telling can be used as a part of the final exam . By explaining the concepts they have understood over the semester students can prove what they have learned from the class.  Thus, it can be used as a summative assessment at the end. 


I think , students can or should publish their work only after a careful review of the work by the teacher .  As the work can be seen by anybody after it has been published , lot of effort and hard work has to be put in before the work is published.  But, if the work done by the students is good enough and if others can learn  from it , then it can be definitely published for others to use.

Essential question week 4 continuation

What is your ideal technology "set up" in your classroom? How would technology impact student achievement and engagement in your classroom?

Ideal technology "set up" is something when every student in the classroom have access to technology.  Not only does these kids need to have access but they should also know how to use the tech tools provided to them.  Then only it becomes ideal and fair on teacher's part to assign work based on technology.  
To achieve this, the teacher first of all need to make sure that all the students know how to use the tech tools.  He or she can spend some time in the beginning of the semester and give students small training classes and then start giving work. 


The other ideal set up is when all the students have the computer or any other mobile device to use .  When the number of computers or laptops available is less in quantity students are forced to work in groups.  As much students like to work in groups there are lot of chances where they can get distracted into other things, while working in groups.  
Thus the quantity should be optimum where every student has a personal computer to work on. 


As technology makes things more creative, students will definitely be more engaged in what they want to learn or suppose to learn.  Also, technology provides updated information which also gains attention.  


When students can see their progress consistently they can work on those areas where they need more practice and effort.   Thus, they can improve their grades progressively. 
Technology through presentations, and videos make students think and also makes them to ask questions about a particular topic which improves their thinking process. 


All this will help students to be a better listener and ultimately have an positive impact on student achievement.