Here's my MS photo story on Shakespeare's Othello. I can't figure out why it won't show up with an image to start. It's being weird, stupid computers...
Monday, February 23, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Arend Response
Assessment is when teachers gather and synthesize information for the purpose of making decisions about their students and their classrooms. There are informal forms of assessment, like observation or verbal exchanges; there are also formal forms of assessment, like exams or homework. Teachers can also use feedback from students as a form of assessment. Evaluation, on the other hand, is when teachers take their assessments and use them to make judgments, assign value, or decide worth. There are two types of evaluation: formative and summative. Formative evaluation takes place before instruction to find out students’ past knowledge, and it can help in planning lesson plans. Summative evaluations take place after instruction to see how well the students performed. Generally, grades are a product of summative evaluation. One example of assessment and evaluation working together would be if a teacher gives an exam to her students (assessment) and then uses the results of the test to assign grades (evaluation). The teacher is assigning a value to the information assessed from the test.
Teachers should perform formative evaluations with their students to be able to gauge the level that their students are at in terms of using the technology. Teachers may need to provide lessons on using the technology they’re requiring for the projects, so all of the students are able to complete their task. Once the projects are finished, using rubrics is a quick way for teachers to evaluate them. Still using technology, there are many web sites (ie. http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/) that can help teachers quickly build a rubric.
Teachers should perform formative evaluations with their students to be able to gauge the level that their students are at in terms of using the technology. Teachers may need to provide lessons on using the technology they’re requiring for the projects, so all of the students are able to complete their task. Once the projects are finished, using rubrics is a quick way for teachers to evaluate them. Still using technology, there are many web sites (ie. http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/) that can help teachers quickly build a rubric.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Benefits of Technology
Technologies for Education--Ann Barron
With all the technological advancements we’ve made, it’s no wonder that so many teachers are turning more towards using technology in the classroom. Technology can make the life of a teacher easier, and it provides another way for students to be able to connect to school. Using technology can make the students take a more active role in their learning; they may use a computer to work through class material at their own speed and level. It can make the lessons more customizable for each student, and it provides greater flexibility for students with special needs. With multimedia presentations, teachers can easily incorporate the different learning styles of their students, and they can make the subject more alive than simply reading or lecturing about them. Technology provides students opportunities to become the teacher as often they will know more about using the various types of technology than their teachers will.
Currently I’m working with 10th grade honors English students, and the teacher I’m working with uses a lot of technology in her class. You can really see the difference that it makes for her students; there is a lot less time spent on the teacher handwriting notes and more time discussing content. She posts notes onto her website for the students after class, so they are able to go back and reference what they talked about in class if they need. We’re using various programs to edit and revise their long form presentations (literary analysis essays). The students use the Flesch-Kincaid readability test found on the newer version of Microsoft Word in order to figure out the grade level and readability level of their essays. Without this program, it makes it a lot more difficult to examine where their papers are at. We’re also using turn-it-in for these papers. With turn-it-in, we’re able to go in and easily peer review essays and for the teacher, we can check for plagiarism. Technology is implemented into her classroom and the students love it. It brings something that they love into a subject that most are only taking because it’s required.
With all the technological advancements we’ve made, it’s no wonder that so many teachers are turning more towards using technology in the classroom. Technology can make the life of a teacher easier, and it provides another way for students to be able to connect to school. Using technology can make the students take a more active role in their learning; they may use a computer to work through class material at their own speed and level. It can make the lessons more customizable for each student, and it provides greater flexibility for students with special needs. With multimedia presentations, teachers can easily incorporate the different learning styles of their students, and they can make the subject more alive than simply reading or lecturing about them. Technology provides students opportunities to become the teacher as often they will know more about using the various types of technology than their teachers will.
Currently I’m working with 10th grade honors English students, and the teacher I’m working with uses a lot of technology in her class. You can really see the difference that it makes for her students; there is a lot less time spent on the teacher handwriting notes and more time discussing content. She posts notes onto her website for the students after class, so they are able to go back and reference what they talked about in class if they need. We’re using various programs to edit and revise their long form presentations (literary analysis essays). The students use the Flesch-Kincaid readability test found on the newer version of Microsoft Word in order to figure out the grade level and readability level of their essays. Without this program, it makes it a lot more difficult to examine where their papers are at. We’re also using turn-it-in for these papers. With turn-it-in, we’re able to go in and easily peer review essays and for the teacher, we can check for plagiarism. Technology is implemented into her classroom and the students love it. It brings something that they love into a subject that most are only taking because it’s required.
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