Chapter 5

 Chapter 5 - Reflection and Assessment

I created a digital survey last year for my students to take at the beginning of the school year and then gave it to them at the end.  It was interesting to see how much they had learned about technology over the course of the year working with me.  This chapter brought to light how many other ways I can assess my students specifically throughout their technology feedback and reflection of their own work.  Just like us, students need to be able to reflect on their learning and use that reflection to help them make improvements.  While reading I came up with a strategy I want to incorporate into my own classroom.  My students take AR test and blog about books (also getting an overhaul after this class) but I want to have them create a digital log of all the books they read over the course of the school year and not through a written log.  I think this will also allow the students to reflect on their reading and increase their awareness of how often they read and what types of books they read. Finally, I will be incorporating more exit tickets into my ELA block with technology.  I think that I have missed the opportunity to collect some valuable feedback from my students within this area of my day and want to improve upon that in the future.  However, I think this like all other things we teach I will need to model it for it to be worth anything in the classroom.