Methods for teaching in a digital enviornment
Many in the educational community have a great deal of fear and concern regarding how ChatGPT and AI in general are used in the classroom by students. I believe that one of the ways that this fear and concern can be alleviated is to start to learn and use ChatGPT for educational tasks and build comfort with this new and growing technology.
It used to be commonplace for teachers to give written feedback to students on the paper assignments that they turned in. However, as districts moved to digital grade books and student information systems, much of this feedback faded away. While much of this feedback is given to students in other forms, there are common practices among feedback practices. Feedback to students is a critical part of the learning process, as it closes the information processing loop, and it allows students to learn from the mistakes and problems that they make during learning the learning process. Solid and effective feedback must have three major components for it to be useful and effective for students: specific, articulable, and actionable. These three components make feedback given to students on daily assignments and assessments useful to allow them to take corrective action in the learning process.
Another school year has come and gone. Now that I have time over summer break, I am going to work on organizing my work cloud drive to help bring a bit more order to the chaos that every school year inherently has. Every year I say that I am going to be better about keeping my work cloud drive neat and organized, but then the reality of creating files and assignments on the fly sets in and I just drop files in where I can so that I can move on to something else.
This past calendar year, I have been working to improve my grading and assessment processes. I want to make these processes transparent, streamlined, and provides… Read More »Adding a Drawing Tablet to Improve Grading and Feedback
Over the past decade education at all levels has been moving to digital content delivery through the use of various learning management systems (LMS). However,… Read More »Creating Handouts & Worksheets for Print and Digital Use
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Late work is problem many teachers struggle to solve, in this article we will provide a couple of solutions to this problem.
This leads to the question of what is a design critique? A design critique is any type of meeting in which designers present unfinished materials to colleagues to get feedback. This feedback can range in breadth from positive comments about aspects that work to aspects that don’t work and should possibly be revised. Using feedback from peers to improve design concepts is the primary purpose of the design critique, it gives the designer to a chance to make improvements to the design. Typically, in these types of open feedback processes some ground rules or norms are adhered to, usually a set of 3-4 questions are posed to a group (should be at least 5 people) and they focus commentary on how the designs answer those questions. Keep in mind, the purpose of this type of meeting is to evaluate existing ideas for future direction or changes.
