TIC Presentation, May 2021

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Kristin Beeby

Using Technologies to Transform Formative Assessments and Communication of Student Learning

...technology offers the possibility of not just doing things better, but of doing better things...

Mark Gura

Communication

Assessments

Technologies enhance education by extending educators' abilities to allow more flexible, meaningful, and collaborative assessments and communications. This allows us to do better to help students learn and students to do better learning.

Digital Technolgies Aid Formative Assessments in being...

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Digital Technologies Aid in Assessments Being Flexible

"Sandra (Teacher, Case Study One) identified that contributing was a lot easier because of the technology and that this meant that she was now adding to the ePortfolios more often than she did to the paper-based portfolios."

Hooker, 2017

"The current research study suggests that ePortfolios have the potential for strengthening formative assessment by the contribution of more voices e teachers, parents and children.”

Digital Technologies Aid in Assessments Being Meaningful

Pancheco, n.d.

"They [the teachers] have seen their students focussing on learning—not on grades. They have seen student conversations focussed on improving their proficiency level, with better understanding of what is expected of them as learners. This is a huge success.”

Martin Weller, 2020

"The argument for e-portfolios is a compelling one - they provide a place to store all of the evidence a learner gathers to exhibit learning, both formal and informal, in order to support lifelong learning and career development."

Black and William as cited in Hooker, 2017

Hooker, 2017

"...teaching and learning must be a co-operative venture; there needs to be interaction between the teacher and the student, the student and teacher and the student and their peers for learning to take place".

Martin Weller, 2020

Digital Technologies Aid in Assessments Being Collaborative

"...the technology that is likely to be both impactful and culturally beneficial is that which recongnizes this and seeks to work collaboratively with human educators"

"Several of the teachers including Sandra (Teacher, “Case Study One) noted the benefit of seeing what other teachers had written and being able to make links between these stories and her own.”

Digital Technologies Aid Communication of Learning in being...

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Thompson, B. C., Mazer, J. P., & Flood Grady, E. (2015)

Digital Technologies Aid in Communication Being Flexible

In many cases, convenience supersedes media richness for communicators’ selection of a given mode for specific types of communication (e.g., instrumental vs. complex topics).

Unicef

“Schools cannot rely on a single communication method to reach all homes with a given message.”

BC Ministry of Education, Curriculum

"Effective communication between the home and the school is central to student success. Improving and ensuring effective practices for reporting and communicating student learning assures that students and parents will receive information about the student’s progress in a timely and responsive manner.”

Brown et al, 2020

"A public school district in North Carolina is using Microsoft Translator to improve language options for parents and students."

Digital Technologies Aid in Communication Being Meaningful

Digital Technologies Aid in Communication Being Collaborative

"Perhaps parents find using the school website easier, because checking the website does not require the parent to know teachers’ e-mail addresses. School websites are an excellent vehicle for disseminating school information. "

"Traditional methods of communication such as face-to-face meetings have been found to be effective (Decker & Decker, 2003); however, these methods require time that both working parents and teachers may lack.”

Rogers, R., & Wright, V. (2008)

"Technology offers the middle school parent the means to actively participate in the child’s education without being visible in the school thus fostering adolescent independence in a supportive environment."

George Veletsianos from Brown et al (2020)

"Empowering faculty, students and, leaders with the knowledge and skills around emerging educational landscape will enable them to make informed, appropriate, and ethical decisions toweard swerving our students and society to the best of our ability."

Kristin Beeby

MA in Learning and Technology, Technical Writing Certificate, & BA English and Psychology

First People's Principles of Education. BC Ministry of Education.

MyEd. (2018). Teachers at Langley’s D.W. Poppy Secondary champion standards-based gradebook. MyEducation BC Connection, 8.

Unicef. (2020). Tips for schools on how to strengthen communication with parents/caregivers. Unicef.

Weller, M. (2020). 25 Years of Ed Tech. Athabasca University Press.Weller, M. (2020). 25 Years of Ed Tech. Athabasca University Press.

Malcolm, Brown, McCormack, M. Reeves, J. Brooks, C & Grajek, S. (2020). 2020 Educause Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition. Educause.

Agnia, T. SD 22 - Technology Plan 2020-21. Technology Plan. SD22.

BC Ministry of Education: BC Ed Plan: Focus on Learning, 2015.

Hooker, T. (2017). Transforming teachers' formative assessment practices through eportfolios. Teaching and Teacher Education, 67, 440–453.

Gura, Mark. The Edtech Advocate's Guide to Leading Change in Schools. First ed. Portland, Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education, 2018.

Selwyn, N., Pangrazio, L., Nemorin, S., & Perrotta, C. (2020). What might the school of 2030 be like? an exercise in social science fiction. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(1), 90-106.

Thompson, B. C., Mazer, J. P., & Flood Grady, E. (2015). The changing nature of parent–teacher communication: Mode selection in the smartphone era. Communication Education, 64(2), 187-207.

Rogers, R., & Wright, V. (2008). Assessing technology’s role in communication between parents and middle schools. Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 7(1), 36-58.

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