Using Your Email in Gr 2

This week we began to talk to our Grade 2s about using their school GMail in preparation for when they move to Grade 3. We were so impressed with our ‘internet savvy’ our students were! These are the slides we used during our discussion: Things we discussed: – What will your digital footprint be? – Digital…

Bling Your Blog

1) Remember who your audience is and write for them.2) Make each blog post a conversation, encourage comments, add comments, keep it going. Give the people visiting your blog a reason to come back.3) Read a lot of other blogs – seeing what others are doing shows you the possibilities.  1. Whos.amung.usThis widget allows us to see…

Learning Talks take off

Since my last post describing Learning Talks as a method of assessing for understanding, several teachers have come forward with examples that fit the genre. Students in FIB (Grade 10) English worked in pairs using an iPad and the Show Me app to record their thinking and annotations on a piece of text. In the…

Tech to Transform Assessment – part I

Technology can impact assessment in a variety of ways, from substituting digital tests for paper to self-marking online formative assessments, (Substitution and Augmentation in the SAMR model) it has great potential to assess skills and knowledge in ways that we couldn’t imagine or were not possible previously, redefining how we assess. When considering which assessment tool…

Digital Citizenship in the Primary School

Below is a summary of the main points from our parent workshop on Digital Citizenship in the Primary School. You will also find links to some of the tools/sites we recommended in the session. Our approach to Digital Citizenship UWCSEA is one of the pilot schools for the Generation Safe 360 Assessment. This rigorous approach…