Jan 07 2008
Assessment, Feedback and Technology
During the PD I attended last week, our presenter asked how we provide students with descriptive feedback.
As I looked around the room, observing grade-level groups of teachers, huddled around chart paper, listing techniques used - I couldn’t help but wonder, “Do stickers count as descriptive feedback?”
Since I don’t have a grade-level, I decided to create a quick list of some technology ways that teachers can provide students w/ feedback. Here’s what I jotted down in under 5-minutes:
- Student Responders (Clickers)
- Websites w/ interactive challenges and built-in answers (also serves as practice w/ supports)
- Comments inserted into electronic documents
- Progressbook or other online grading-program that allows student and parent access
- Technology to display answers/comments/prompts (ticker tape, electronic messaging boards)
- PowerPoint or other presentation software for lectures w/ cloze activities or quizzes at end w/ answers built in
- Audible books - chapter summaries w/ quizzes and built-in answers
- Adding audio files to computer activities/electronic documents (Inspiration & Kidpsiration, Websites, Promethean Board software has the audio feature that allows for voice recording)
- Phone calls - phones are still a very usable mode of communication technology
- Blogs, Wikis, E-mail, Chat, text messaging, IM
What else?
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