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Assessments from Home: How to Take the Google Out of Your Questions.

April 17, 2020

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Today’s Presenters:

Brooke Franklin

Annamarie Rinehart

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Who is Forward Edge?

K-12 Education Focused

Experts in Education...from the people we hire, to the manufacturers we partner with, to the solutions we’ve developed. All have an education focus.

Technology Solutions Provider

Solutions that solve problems, create value for the customer and ultimately have a meaningful impact for the classroom.

Tech & Curriculum Integration

Personalized Programs to Increase Classroom Engagement.

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Today’s Agenda

  • Tweak Your Settings
    • Google Quizzes Locked Mode
    • Forms: Upload Feature�
  • Tweak Your Task
    • “Level Up” with the 4C’s
      • Critical Thinking
      • Creativity
      • Communication
      • Collaboration

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Tweak Your Settings

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Google Quizzes: Locked Mode

Switching on “locked mode” is like turning on a lock down browser for testing. If a student leaves a quiz and re-enters it, the teacher receives an email!

Note: This can only be used with Chromebooks.

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Google Forms: Upload Feature

Allows students to upload work directly from their Google Drive.

Teachers can specify:

  • File type
  • # of files
  • File size

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Tweak Your Task

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“Level Up” with the 4C’s:�

If you can Google the question, how valuable is the information you’re assessing, REALLY?

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Critical Thinking

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Critical Thinking

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Redesign Your Questions

  • Encourage students to give responses from multiple perspectives
  • Encourage student-to-student interaction patterns
  • Elicit more complete and more complex responses
  • Allow students to give knowledgeable answers
  • Encourage students to question themselves, their classmates, adn their teachers
  • Stimulate further thought and exploration through research
  • Encourage students to share information or ideas in a new way.

Advice from veteran Kyle Knobbe, from Purcell Marian High School!

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Critical Thinking

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Redesign Your Questions

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Critical Thinking

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Redesign Your Questions

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Critical Thinking

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Genius Hour

Innovation

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Content Focused

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Creativity

Can students create a digital storyboard, bulletin board, or graphic organizer to demonstrate mastery of a skill...

...and then record themselves explaining their ideas, thought process, or rationale?

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Padlet

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Screencastify or Loom

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Padlet offers a variety of layouts for students to use.

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Students can add all kinds of elements to their Padlets!

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With Screencastify, students can create screen recordings that will be saved directly to their Google Drive.

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Students can create screen recordings that will be saved directly to their Loom account.

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Screencastify

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Loom

Want more info on these tools? Check out our webinar “Screen Recording Made Easy!”

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Learning Around the House

Teach Arrays with Household Items

“Recreate This Picture” With Household Items + A Historical Synopsis

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Learning Around the House

Gravity Analytics Videos

Barbie Doll/Lego Graphic Novels

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Communication

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Can students synthesize their acquired knowledge and communicate their understanding in a meaningful way?

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Turn on video moderation to keep responses private.

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Use the feedback feature for quick objective grading!

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Film Production

Communication

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“Vodcasts”

5 Minute Film Festivals

Student Created Tutorials

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Podcasting

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ELA

Argumentative Writing

Informational Writing

Descriptive Writing

Interviewing (Dialogue)

Social Studies

Historical Analysis

Historical Storytelling

Cause/Effect Analysis

Corroboration through Interviewing

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Podcasting

Communication

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Math

“Vodcasts” = Video Podcasts to teach concepts or offer multiple strategies

Science

Environmental Reporting & Advocacy

Informational Writing

Hypothesis Debunking

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Collaboration

  • Teach it to an adult
  • record it
  • develop a way to “assess” your teaching (i.e. a Google Form that can be turned in, pencil and paper “test” that can be photographed, etc).
  • Next, think about how you would teach it to a younger sibling!
  • record it
  • develop a way to “assess” your teaching (i.e. “thumbs up if you understand,” an exit ticket that can be photographed, etc ).

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Teach Your Family Members!

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Collaboration

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Pair students up or put them into groups to create something collaboratively to show what they know. Some of the most straightforward and easy to use collaboration tools are:�

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Web Platform

Mobile App

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Thinglink is a digital tool that allows users to take any image and turn it into an interactive graphic with articles, videos and more.

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But what about the data?!

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Use

“Linear Scale” Question Types

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Use

“Multiple Choice Grid” Question Types

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Questions & Ideas?

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