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1voteEducational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied. I made this wiki on request from Miguel Guhlin after I blogged about matching ICT tools to traditional classroom practice and Bloom?s Taxonomy.
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1voteScoring Guide for Student Products This Web tool helps teachers evaluate student products that are created with technology. It focuses on the student's content knowledge and effective technology use. (Audience: K-12 teachers.) An Educator's Guide to Evaluating Claims about Educational Software Selecting the right educational software package has become increasingly complex. There are many issues to consider in selecting educational software: * evidence of its effectiveness; * alignment with your school, state, or district's standards; * suitability for your students' needs and learning styles; * and the total cost of purchasing, maintaining, and upgrading needed hardware and software. The purpose of this site is to help you address the first of these concerns, namely whether the software
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3voteNow that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. One usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes. Another is to provide some type of graphic organizer. Below you will find a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own. Let me know if you have one you would like to share! A book dealing with both the theoretical and practical design of rubrics is the ASCD publication, Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model.
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5voteRubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
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3voteGreat assessment links... rubrics, electronic portfolios, etc.
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2voteA list of resources to create rubrics
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1voteevaluate your own webquests
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