PLN where you found your tech tool to evaluate Once again I turn to commonsense.org for support in my classroom. I am gone next week for a conference and want my students to spend their time with the substitute teacher working on creating a collaborative study guide, and flashcards, for the first two units of the year. The study guide will be a collaborative effort in google docs where they can each complete their section, and make sure that it flows from the previous section of content into the next. However, I am also challenging them to, along with their notes, create a sort of study guide that they can use and add to as the year goes on. For this, I am going to have my students use Quizlet, an online flash card app that is applicable K-12, or anywhere students have access to computers or even smart phones. Name of tech tool that you selected and brief description Quizlet is a little different from traditional flashcards in that students can add images, sound, text, as well as use an integrated language keyboard that includes math text! This math text is not as advanced as some latex editors out there, but it does allow for relatively easy and simple addition of math symbols which almost no other flashcard app out there offers. Furthermore, the ability to add images and sounds makes this much more appealing for creating flashcards that my students will actually use. There are numerous other features, such as allowing me to see student usage and track which answers are most commonly missed so I can adjust my lesson plans. Additionally, the tool can be used in class as a collaborative game with the live feature. Finally, there are a number of different study styles, as well as different games that can make the material slightly more engaging for students. The only obvious drawback I have found is the potential for this to be used to cheat on assessments, although the risk of this seems about the same as for any other tech tool or old school cheating method. Summary of how the literature supports the implementation of this tool (200-300 words) Quizlet is supported by the ISTE Standards, the SAMR Model, and the TPACK framework. A few of the more applicable ISTE standards include: Empowered Learner b, c: Quizlet allows students to “use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice” as well as letting students modify their demonstration learning in a variety of ways, although this is a little less open-ended. Digital Citizen b, c: Quizlet allows students to share their flashcards with a wide variety of other educators and students worldwide, as well as gives them an opportunity to use and respect digital media rights if they choose to use externally produced images, sound bites, or video. Knowledge Constructor a, c, d: Quizlet allows students to curate others’ flashcards, as well as create their own. Additionally, this app supports students in good study practices and offers them multiple means of studying. Innovative Designer b: Quizlet presents students with a surmountable challenge in their creation of effective and useful flashcards, that requires them to engage in the design process. This tech tool probably is just barely edging into the Modification level of the SAMR model. The fact that this tool allows for a variety of media to be used in the flashcards means that we are no longer simply putting flashcards online. It also makes students become comfortable with creating work that is publically accessible online, thereby significantly augmenting and modifying the original, real-world, flashcard model. Finally, this tool incorporates the TPACK framework because I am constantly trying to teach my students to collaborate, and this tool allows for a number of different approaches to collaboration, from working together to create the study guides and flashcards, to playing the live games as groups and teams, necessitating good group work. Therefore, I am able to incorporate the mathematical skills and subject matter (content knowledge) through the app (technological knowledge) through teaching them about effective study methods (pedagogical knowledge) that they should be mastering for college. Sources: https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/quizlet www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/14/professors-warned-about-popular-learning-tool-used-students-cheat www.cnbc.com/2017/08/23/quizlet-a-popular-study-app-faces-a-moment-of-truth.html
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