Blue Group's Presentation of the 3rd Research Paper

Chapter 10 - Assessment Style

Pick two types of assessment and explain how they work, and  why you would choose these assessment styles over others.

I think that in my elementary classroom I will use Peer Assessment and Self-Assessment.  I think that peer feedback can be very helpful to raise the effort and work that a student will put intot the work.  I think that if students are also given the chance to rework their assignment after the assessment then they can incorporate their peer's ideas into their work.  These ideas may have sparked something to improve their assignment that they hadn't thought of before.  I think that self-assessment would be very benefical for students to learn.  There was a girl in the third grade class I was volunteering in last semester and she would always raise her hand to see if her answer was correct or her ideas were expanded on enough.  I think that students like her would be helped greatly by learning to evaluate their own work and assess themselves internally, without always deferring to the teacher.

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Chapter 6 Activity

What is the difference between searching and researching?

Searching is a relatively new thing, according to Prensky, less than ten years old (Prensky, 2005, p. 2). This is in contrast to research which has had a long and important history is education "and was established for the purpose of determining the 'quality' of information" (Prensky, 2005, p. 3). Other than that I believe that searching in considered an informal, less academic way of finding information. Researching has the connotations of taking all the information and condensing or filtering through it to back up your own ideas, instead of trying to searching for an answers.

How might you use cell phones?

I think that students could use cell phones to learn about anything. I can really see it being used for a current events class, finding out the latest information on politics or entertainment media. How could cell phones be used in an elementary school? Maybe polling, like we did in class with the kids grouped in 3s or 4s. I know that even students in elementary schools have phones, I was in a third grade class and for the testing there were at least 7 phones that were returned to the students at the end of the day.

Which game program might you like to use?

I think that I would like to use crossword to help students learn their weekly spelling words and their meanings. I think that Missing Letter would also be a fun way for students to see how words are related to each other. Sentence Unscramble would be a great game for students to work on grammar without sitting through long lessons with the teacher at the front of the classroom.

Ning Activity

Welcome!!

Welcome to creating your new blog!!

Please leave a comment with you blog's web adress and the name of your blog.

Then return to your blog, and write your first post answering the following questions.

1. In reference to the 6 Assessment Points for student blogs, how would you, as an educator, add or take away from this list?

2. If you were obligated to use a blog, how would you use one in your unique educational setting?

Once you have finished answering these questions on your own blog please come back to this blog and look at the "My Blog List" tag. These are blogs from other students in our class. Please click on them and follow your peers and add comments to their answers to the questions.

My Answers to the Questions:

1. In reference to the 6 Assessment Points for student blogs, how would you, as an educator, add or take away from this list?

I think under the first question, I would add individual grading for aspects like grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Not just related to how well developed was the writing as such, but also the mechanics of writing. I think that if we are going to have students write then we should be having them write properly.

I think that for question 3, I would also add specific content requirements that the students were requirements. I personally don't think that I take away anything from these questions.

2. If you were obligated to use a blog, how would you use one in your unique educational setting?
If I was obligated to use a blog in my classroom, I think that I would use it to keep in touch with parents. They could keep up with things in the classroom by RSS feed, where it could be automatically sent to their email addresses. I think that I would put things like what we were currently working on in class at the time, times where parents could come in a volunteer, upcoming Parent-Teacher Conferences or PTA meetings, and anything else that is interesting in relation to the classroom. For my students using it, because I am focusing on the lower Elementary grades, I am still not sure. But I think in the upper Elementary school like 3-5th, they could answer questions by using the comment boxes. Or perhaps do extra credit by creating their own blog and posting their assignments to the blog.