Bryan Tayman
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Backchannel using Today's Meet: http://todaysmeet.com/sw-formative-assessment-wkshp
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Session Description
Users of Wikipedia describe formative assessment as a verb, a process, something that happens during the learning, and an integral part of the learning, and in a variety of ways. During this workshop, we will dig deeper into the topic of formative assessment and how technology can be used to implement it. We will investigate several web sites on the topic and then participate in the process of formative assessment to better understand the students’ experience. We will spend most of the day using technology tools such as Study Island, Poll Everywhere, Quizlet, Socrative, Google Forms, and Discovery Education’s Teacher Center to create technology-enhanced formative assessments for use in your classroom. Audience: K-12 Teachers.
LEQ
How can technology facilitate and support formative assessment?
Technologies we expect to cover:
- Today's Meet
- Poll Everywhere
- Quizlet
- Google Docs & Forms
- Socrative
- Discovery Ed- Teacher Center Tools
Goals:
- Further explore the concept of formative assessment
- Experience some ways technology can facilitate formative assessment
- Learn to use some formative assessment technology tools
- Share our creations by posting links to them on this site!
Self Reflection: In what ways does digital content such as a simple hyperlink or right click naturally foster formative assessment? How can we model this to our students?
Activator(s)
Choose a few of these to complete below:
1. How would you describe formative assessment? Take our poll. (polleverywhere)
2. Our Office Spoof on Assessment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svk_R_rVhA
3. A few funny testing scenes from the movies:
4. Take a look over this whole page to preview what we will be doing today!
On the back channel: Share a great quote about assessment, teaching, or learning.
Self Reflection: Does choice promote formative assessment??
Pre-Assessment
"Making the invisible, visible."
1. Write a summary of what formative assessment is AND HOW YOU PUT IT INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AT SWSD. Use a SW Google Doc. Save as LastName-FormativeAssessment.
Presenters: Click here for the writing prompt.
Self-Reflection: How did you do writing about formative assessment? What questions do you have or where do you feel there are holes in your understanding? How does the quote above -"making the invisible, visible." relate to formative assessment?
Peer Collaboration: Share your Google document with someone else. Use a different color and add one additional idea to their doc, and ask a question or two. Close this document for now. What face-to-face LFS staple does sharing a google doc with a partner remind you of?
Vocabulary
3. Review these key terms using Quizlet:
http://quizlet.com/5871897/scatter/
How do feel about these vocabulary terms?
Review Kyle and Dave's Assessment PowerPoint from 2011-2012 School Year | Try Learning with and without feedback - use thatquiz.com
Self Reflection: What is the role of feedback in formative assessment? What are characteristics of effective / in-effective feedback? Does feedback always have to come from the teacher?
REVISIT & REVISE #1: Re-open your formative assessment Google Document and add to it!
On the back channel: What other terms would you add?
Formative Assessment - SWSD's Take
This past year Assessment was a big topic at SWSD. Take a look at the hard work out together by the Grading and Assessment Committee. Get a sneak peak at the required assessment practices for next year!
REVISIT & REVISE #2: Re-open your formative assessment Google Document and add to it!
BREAK TIME!
Formative Assessment - From Around the Web
Sample Cork - try me!
4. Open a new browser. Read an article, watch a video, or listen to a podcast about Formative assessment. Use CorkBoard.me (careful - able to delete) to post key ideas/concepts as you read/listen/watch.
FOCUS: Make your post it note connect back SW's Take on Grading and Assessment as well as your own professional practice.
Timer - we will aim for ~ 30 mins: http://e.ggtimer.com/ Based on Last Summer's Feedback: http://mbcurl.me/EXS and http://mbcurl.me/EXT
The Right Way of Using Technology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shantanu-sinha/the-right-way-to-use-tech_b_833827.html
OR on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1| Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: A short introductory article and then a TedTalk by Shantanu Sinha, founder of the Khan Academy, which is a collection of over 3000 on-demand YouTube instructional videos. The talk focuses on the impact technology (Khan Academy) is having on how and when students can learn, from his perspective. Check out the comments and the replies by Shantanu himself. Direct access to an expert. Entire video is 20 mins.
Student Centered Learning - Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-centered-learning-environments-paul-bogdan
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: A quote he shares from Albert Einstein sums up the main idea of this article "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." This is a blog post with links to many additional resources. Don't get to far away from formative assessment.
How to Use Multiple Choice Test as Formative Assessment - Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/multiple-choice-assessments-formative-heather-wolpert-gawron
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: Teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron explains a strategy for formatively reflecting on a multiple-choice assessment. Neat ideas here!
The Best Value in Formative Assessment - ASCD
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec07/vol65/num04/The-Best-Value-in-Formative-Assessment.aspx
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: Good introduction and overall summary of formative assessment. Explains key characteristics of formative assessment and 3 guiding questions.
Enhancing Student Learning - District Administration
http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticlepf.aspx?articleid=1362
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: A great overall philosophy on formative assessment and how it directly impacts student achievement.
YouTube: Rick Wormeli on Formative Assessment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxFXjfB_B4
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: Rick Wormeli discusses Formative assessment and highlights how to provide descriptive feedback - an essential feature of formative assessment.
YouTube: How Differentiated Instruction and Formative Assessment work at Forest Lake Elem. - Edutopia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXbuE-21I4
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: A video that shows lots of different technology being used formatively to differentiate instruction of individual students. Video is 6 mins.
Common Formative Assessments
http://www.allthingsplc.info/wordpress/?p=46
Visit the corkboard: Tues E1 | Wed S1 | Thurs S2 | Fri E2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Summary: Article from Kyle shared on back channel Monday: Discusses the importance of using common assessments.
When time is up...
5. Complete the SW Google Form for your day: Tues Elem 1 | Wed Sec 1 | Thurs Sec 2 | Fri Elem 2 2012 F.A. w/ Tech Workshop
Which articles did we as a group think were most helpful? Let's view form summary pages!
Assessment Prompt
REVISIT & REVISE #3: Re-open your formative assessment Google Document and add to it!
Peer Collaboration: Take a look at the corkboards to monitor each others' learning and provide targeted, specific feedback to each other.
On the back channel: Share other formative assessment resources you know of!
Lunch 11:30 - 12:30
- TICKET OUT THE DOOR: Socrative - great, on the fly, and very education templates. There's an App for iPod Touches/iPhones!
- Where is the best place to eat in Hanover?
Teacher: http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#openEnded
Student: http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom
LUNCH
- Take our After Lunch Poll on BYOD - Poll Everywhere Example (advantage can be texted or access on computer)
- Try out Discovery Streaming's Quiz Feature here! Love this tool for the feedback!!
- Let's review our earlier answers on the poll everywhere poll: How would you describe formative assessment?
Tech Tools
FIRST: DECIDE ON CONTENT Step 1: Tour Site Step 2: Create an Account Step 3: Start Creating, Ask ?s Step 4: Share
Self Reflection: I have a lot of online test tools listed here, but can't other types of projects also be formative assessments?? Also consider online tools such as
ToonDoo (comics) ,
Infographics (
about) ,
concept maps ,
talkin' things,
movies and more! Also, sites that provide pre-tests and then adjust acordingly, like
GFC Learn, is formative. Key is making the invisible visible, and then providing specific, appropriate, focused feedback!!
Also - why would access to mobile apps help encourage formative assessment by students?
On the back channel: Post what do you plan on creating today/tool you plan to use. Someone else in the room may be able to collaborate with you as you work.
Work Time
REVISIT & REVISE #4: Re-open your formative assessment Google Document and add to it! Consider adding links to tools you especially like, the links to your products you have created, and even a link back to this page. This should now be a pretty summary doc on what you have learned today. When you refer back to it in the future, you may be excited to see how you will have changed.
On the back channel: Post links to your projects for others to test out! Get some test users of your assessment, and get feedback!
Peer Collaboration: Feel free to move around and help each other develop your projects. We have many experts at SWSD - teachers who have actually implemented these tools in their classrooms!
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