Rubrics provide teachers with an excellent way to evaluate students. Not only do these checklists help keep the teacher on track during grading, but it also guides the students throughout the entire assignment. Rubrics can help add a sense of objectivity to subjective projects as well. Technology-based rubrics are especially great for assessing meaningful learning. Although rubrics can be time-consuming to create, they provide clear and detailed lists of expectations for student products. Today, there are a plethora of rubrics online at teachers’ disposal, however the writers of our textbook remind teachers to be diligent when using rubrics from these banks. Teachers should check to ensure that rubrics are applicable for the anticipated learning outcomes in their own classroom. We checked out rubrician.com for this class. There are also other sites to help you make your own rubric the way you want it. Rubrics are one of the best ways to assess meaningful learning in the classroom, especially in language arts when assignments can often be subjective.
The best feature of clicker assessment tools is that students can respond to questions without having to raise their hands or talk over each other. Students simply key in a response, and the results are visible to the entire class. Clicker technology is a great way to assess meaningful learning because it can be used to quickly test knowledge in order to check for understanding and reevaluate teaching methods. This technology also “evens the playing field” as our book tells us. Often, it is a race to answer first in class. However, the opposite is also true. Students are slow to answer for fear of embarrassment or fear of being incorrect. With clicker technology, all students answer without these fears coming into play. Clicker technology assesses meaningful learning by encouraging participation from each student in the classroom. It allows for individualization and self pacing.
I think Inspiration and Kidspiration would make really great tools in the classroom after looking through the websites. These tools allow the students to organize their thoughts in a visual manner that aids them in understanding material. It feels a lot like mind-mapping to me, but on a much higher level. I checked into both Inspiration and Kidspiration, and I think Inspiration would be helpful in my high school English classroom. Organizing visual concepts for theme, character, and plot would be so much easier with the help of this software. I think students would enjoy using it as a medium for brainstorming and organization for essays and papers as well.
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