Module+Five+Reflection

 Reflection Prompt 5: **How has technology impacted or changed your classroom assessment and evaluation? Has your data collection methodology changed with technology? If technology has not impacted your assessment and evaluation, what would you like to change? Discuss technology and your own productivity and professional practice. ** I learned though reading the ISTE text, that using technology in evaluation and assessment can help with productivity. Technology has not really impacted me or changed my classroom assessment much, but I would like to change many things about my assessment and evaluation. One thing I would like to change is student peer evaluation during my research writing unit. Usually, I have students trade papers, write comments on each others’ papers, and trade back. I would like to use googledocs for this in the near future. They can collaborate through googledocs and give each other instant feedback. The great thing about googledocs is they an work on this from home too. Another thing I want to change is I would like to incorporate the “clickers” into my classroom. My school has some “clickers” and is looking into providing all teachers with them so students can participate in a low stakes environment to answer questions, take quizzes, and do surveys. I think these would be great ways to change the way I assess and evaluate through technology, and I am looking forward to increasing my productivity.   I now know that it is worth the time and energy to learn how to use new technologies and web-based evaluative programs to increase productivity. As the ISTE text states, many teachers do not want to spend the extra time to learn how to use a new concept or tool (page. 103). While it is hard to find time to learn a new tool, when it comes to education and technology, it’s often worth it in the long run.
 * 1) **//Description.// **  //Make connections. What did you learn through reading the assigned reading and can you make a connection between your life and what you have read or learned//
 * // 2. Impact. // ** // How do you feel about what you learned? What do you now know or what can you now do that you didn't know or were not yet able to do before? How does this make you feel? Are you concerned about any of the things you observed or experienced? //

**//3.// ****//Intent.// **  //Based on your experiences, what will you do in the future to make use of your learnings. For example, will you, in some way, behave differently? Will you do further readings? Are there things you will observe more closely or in a different way? How will this impact your teaching or students.// I intend on learning how to use googledocs more effectively in my classroom. I would like to collaborate with my English department and get everyone on board with using googledocs. I think it would be worthwhile for juniors and seniors from different classes to work together and help each other evaluate writing. Seniors could evaluate junior writing, and vice versa. It would be a great way for students to learn critical thinking skills and to see a variety of writing styles and abilities. I am also planning on pushing for the “clickers” to be incorporated into the English classrooms. I’d like to work with other teachers who use the response system to learn the different ways others incorporate them into their assessment and evaluation.