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ks to differentiated strategies such as visual auditory physical response etc a project with a higher level thinking activity pbl interdisciplinary project etc and its assessment rubric checklist etc if needed a formal summative assessment at the higher thinking level creating qr code chapters may sound like a formidable task however within one week i had my students as an end of the course activity find three videos that they felt taught a specific learning goal well find an online quiz that tested the concept and find a picture that showed an application of the learning when students evaluate material they decide what really helps them to learn the materials are student approved you can incorporate online materials that you presently use if you can work with one other teacher then you can share your resources get unchained from your textbook so students can learn better when will you start on your qr learning textbook you might want to try a qr learning sheet for a part of a unit or for a unit to figure out what format works best for your students learning my three formative assessment books formative assessment responding to your students successful student writing through formative assessment and improving foreign language speaking through formative assessment are available at http is gd tbook my modern language blogs are now at http bit ly imprml i have developed many spanish activities that allow students to begin to express themselves and to begin to move toward spontaneous speaking as in a natural conversation at teacherspayteachers http bit ly tpthtuttle mobile learning and assessment published november 19 2012 accountability achievement assess assessment data data driven decision making feedback formative assessment learn smartphone tablet leave a comment tags accountability assess data formative assessment mobile mobile learning smartphone tablet can use a wide variety of mobile devices and of mobile apps for capturing student learning analyzing it providing feedback and recognizing learning success identify the specific learning goal have qr codes for exemplars that students can refer to anytime during the learning process pre assess with mobile device need data to go to one location for analysis monitor and collect student data transform non data activities such as texting into data ones constant monitoring of students daily weekly review of data mobile device spreadsheet of students scores use formative assessment in class performance tasks and short quizzes provide feedback qr code to new strategy to overcome learning gap differentiate in strategies peer assess while doing task on app or after learning task self assess see progress and evaluate how to become better use eportfolio wiki edmodo celebrate successful learning other resources search my education and technology blog bit ly hgtblog am on edtech s the honor roll 50 must read k 12 education it blogs my modern language blogs are now at http bit ly imprml i have developed many spanish activities that allow students to begin to express themselves and to begin to move toward spontaneous speaking as in a natural conversation at teacherspayteachers http bit ly tpthtuttle my three formative assessment books formative assessment responding to your students successful student writing through formative assessment and improving foreign language speaking through formative assessment are available at http is gd tbook academic online poll survey guidelines to improve student learning published november 15 2012 achievement assess assessment clicker clickers formative assessment google form online poll quiz survey leave a comment tags assessment clicker formative assessment online poll questions quiz survey many teachers have begun to use online polling or survey tools in their classroom the clicker movement has become transformed into a multitude of e polling tools such as those described in web 2 0 survey and polling tools some general guidelines for a learning poll in a classroom 1 decide on the purpose of the poll is it a pre assessment in progress assessment or a final assessment 2 focus the poll on a single specific learning concept do not do a poll on all spanish foods but on the subcategory of breakfast foods avoid sampling polls that cover many different learning concepts 3 ask critical essential material go for the truly important learning instead of the trivial learning it is more important to know what type poetry a poet wrote rather than how many husbands she had 4 ask higher level questions which of the following sentences uses an analogy or 5 keep the wording simple avoid negative questions avoid long questions or statements avoid long multi line possible answers although open ended questions often allow the students more flexible in how they answer the question these open ended answers are hard to analyze for overall class performance 6 keep the poll to 10 or fewer questions make it a quick poll to take 7 decide whether to give the poll as homework or in class if done in class is it a review of yesterday or the past few days is a poll given after in class instruction and some practice decide when it fits in the lesson to give you the best picture of students learning 8 decide if the poll is anonymous or whether the students identify themselves if students identify themselves then you can keep track of their progress if students identify themselves make sure your poll program can store the data some poll programs have polls that disappear after a certain amount of time does the program allow you to manipulate the data such as sorting or ranking 9 decide if you will share the class results with the class or whether you will be the only one to look at the data if you share the results with the class does the poll program produce an overall graph with no names or identification of individual students for example the poll may show a graph of how many a b c and d answers there were for an individual question and highlight the correct answer 10 if you are using the poll for class improvement do you provide new strategies for students to overcome the learning gaps shown in the poll if you explain the wrong answer in the same way that you have previously explained it then students who are presently confused will still be confused do you have a new different strategy for students to learn the material how soon after giving the poll will you give the new strategy research says the sooner the more effective do you have students practice the new approach 11 if at least 20 of the students do poorly below 80 on the poll do y0u re poll students within a few days to see if they have overcome their learning gaps can they show that they are proficient 12 decide if your next online poll will be this subcategory of the learning goal at a higher learning level another subcategory of this learning goal or a new learning goal hopefully students will see the polls as a logical progression of their learning how do you use polls in your class my modern language blogs are now at http bit ly imprml i have developed many spanish activities that allow students to begin to express themselves and to begin to move toward spontaneous speaking as in a natural conversation at teacherspayteachers http bit ly tpthtuttle my three formative assessment books http is gd tbook mobile learning questions published september 28 2012 achievement android assessment cell learn mlearning mobile mobile learning smartphone tablet leave a comment tags learn mlearning mobile device mobile learning questions smartphone tablet teacher mobile learning summit 2012 how will you use mobile learning prediction if mobile learning only focuses on drill and kill activities then mobile learning will fail why only use mobile learning for apps how can teachers improve student learning through the social interactive parts of mobile learning questions for mobile learning 1 what is the role of teachers in mobile learning 2 how can the students learn through collaboration inside and outside the classroom 3 how do students do higher level thinking for in depth learning 4 how can teachers increase students learning time 5 how do students demonstrate their learning on a daily or weekly basis 6 how do teachers constantly monitor students learning and provide new learning strategies how do students monitor their own learning 7 how do students bring their world into the classroom to make learning real 8 how do students take their learning out into the world 9 how do students communicate for learning through texting facebook and phone calling 10 how do students learn from media as well as written information 11 how do students learn more when they interact with people outside the class state nation my favorite qr code generator is http createqrcode appspot com use a url shortener like bit ly to shorten the long urls it allows you to enter several links into the one qr code and it allows you to determine the size of the qr code a video about using qr codes in various subject areas http www youtube com watch v ayw032sktj a few of my previous blogs about mobile learning criteria for selecting student mobile learning device educational concerns aim for real learning with apps analysis of learning with mobile learning is it really mobile learning teaching in the age of mobile learning devices my spanish spontaneous speaking activities 20 includes modified speed dating students ask a question from a card whole class structured speaking students substitute in or select words to communicate in pairs role playing students talk as people in pictures or drawing from 2 4 people and speaking mats can talk using a wide variety of nouns verbs and adjectives to express their ideas pairs or small group spontaneous speaking based on visuals or topics in pairs and grammar speaking games pairs or small group available for a nominal fee at teacherspayteachers http bit ly tpthtuttle my three formative assessment books http is gd tbook students paired oral testing better than with examiner modern language published september 11 2012 achievement assess assessment communicate conversation fl fluency foreign language modern language oral pairs second language spanish speak test world language leave a comment tags foreign language interactions language learning modern language oral pairs proficiency second language spanish speak talk test world language based on brooks l 2009 interacting in pairs in a test of oral proficiency co constructing a better performance language testing 26 3 341 366 brooks research shows that students who are tested in pairs outperform students who are tested one on one with the examiner in addition the students interactions were more complex and revealed that students co constructed a more linguistically demanding performance in addition when students worked in pairs they more closely resembled the oral interactions typical of a real conversation in paired testing students demonstrated a wider range of interactions 17 to the individual format 10 the paired students mostly commonly had these interactions seeking confirmation asking a question asking for agreement clarification requests and prompting elaboration finishing sentences and referring to partner s ideas over half of all interactions in the one on one with the examiner was asking a question as modern language teachers we will want to encourage oral communication in the classroom we can have our students do more oral work in pairs we can structure students speaking from very basic conversations up to free flowing spontaneous conversations about common topics our scaffolding will allow our second language students to have more complex and personally meaningful conversations most of the spanish activities i have developed are for pairs a few of them are spanish tell me about yourself substitution sentences partners substitute in their own answers to tell abou t themselves spanish conversation questions spontaneous speaking partners partners ask basic questions and then variations on those questions spanish friend family member detailed description partner talk each partner talks about a family member using possible words my spanish spontaneous speaking activities 20 includes modified speed dating students ask a question from a card whole class structured speaking students substitute in or select words to communicate in pairs role playing students talk as people in pictures or drawing from 2 4 people and speaking mats can talk using a wide variety of nouns verbs and adjectives to express their ideas pairs or small group spontaneous speaking based on visuals or topics in pairs and grammar speaking games pairs or small group available for a nominal fee at teacherspayteachers http bit ly tpthtuttle my three formative assessment books http is gd tbook educational mobile learning a technology evaluation grid published june 25 2012 assessment evaluation mld mlearning mobile learning mobile learning device smartphone tablet technology 3 comments tags assess evaluate grid mld mlearning mobile learning smartphone tablet technology as you begin to plan for using mobile learning use this grid to help you determine where you want to be my formative assessment books formative assessment responding to your students student writing through formative assessment improving foreign language speaking through formative assessment http bit ly tutbks my 20 spanish spontaneous speaking activities are available for a nominal fee at teacherspayteachers http bit ly tpthtuttle using technology to prepare student to do well on finals published may 17 2012 assessment final qr technology texting video web 2 0 leave a comment tags assessment final powerpoint qr technology texting video web 2 0 we want our students to do well on the class final department final school district final state final or national final however often it is not what our students know but how they will be tested that determines their grade here are some techniques to use technology to help prepare students for finals so that they can perform well 1 give them self correcting online assessments that mimic parts of the final for example students can do several reading comprehension passages in a program like quia the program instantly tells them whether they are right or wrong you can build in hints strategies so that the students can learn how to get the answer correct such as answer the question word where with a place 2 have a wiki where students can post comments on their strategies for doing well in each section of the test one student might write for the reading passage i underline the question word in the question and then i underline the answer in the passage 3 have a texting based program for the class where anyone can text questions as they do final practice activities other students can explain how to get the answer for example one student texts can t figure out the 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