Using Digital Products to Assess Deep Learning of the Common Core

1. Technology and Assessment
Using Digital Products to Assess Deep Learning of the Common Core

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3. Assessment
doesn’t have
to be scary!
And neither does tech

4. How do we approach this?

5. Nouns v. Verbs

6. Verbs and Nouns (Prensky)
Verbs:
Nouns:
What do we want
What tools could they use
students to DO?
to do it?
Integrate
Evaluate
Produce
Publish
Write
Collaborate
Present
Search Engine
Kidspiration/Inspiration
Google Docs
Twitter
Blogger
Story Bird
Wix

7. The list of tasks is
overwhelming

8. So is the list of tools

9. Project-Based Learning
Encourage Creativity
Promote Doing/Making

10. ELA Common Core

11. "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-inenglish-language-arts

12. “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-careerready-in-reading-writing-speaking-listening-language

13. The Manatee

14. Let’s reverse engineer that

15. Step 1: Choose a Topic
Collaborate 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.

16. 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.

17. Step 3: Look Up Words
www.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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Step 6: Collaborate
Determine 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.

21. Step 7: Peer Review
Feedback, 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.

22. Step 8: Select Media
Enhance 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.

23. Step 9: Record the Narration
Speak 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.

24. Which tool?

25. It doesn’t matter!

26. What does this look like at
the high school level?

27. What steps went into that?

28. What else?
Create enhanced podcast analyzing an advertisement
Maintain a book review blog (class or individual)
Keep a writing portfolio website
Develop an accurate wikipedia page about a topic of interest
Use Skype and Google Docs to write collaboratively with
authors or other students around the globe
Create newscasts about current or historical events
Create multiple versions of the same sotry for Twitter,
Facebook, email, professional chat rooms, and articles for
publication

29. What about math?

30. " “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.”

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

32. The glory of Minecraft

33. Reverse engineer THAT!

34. Grade 3 Mathematics
Measurement 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.
Geometry
Reason with shapes and their attributes.
Mathematical Practices
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.

35. 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

36. Search for Resources
Hundreds 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-schoolmatt-davis and http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ccss-middleschool-math-tech-monica-burns
Check out www.21things4teachers.net

37. Bottom line: Everything
you’ve heard here all
week!

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