The document discusses how digital technologies can enhance education by allowing for more flexible, personalized, and engaging learning experiences. It notes that digital tools give students opportunities to express themselves and find their passions. Teachers are encouraged to look beyond traditional teaching methods and engage students through new learning technologies. Several digital tools are highlighted that can facilitate assessment, collaboration, and project-based learning, including Edmodo, Weebly, Padlet, Nearpod, Dropbox, Google Drive, Numbers, and Explain Everything.

1. Creating, Exploring and
Assessing in a Digital
World
Paul Smith 2013

2. Our Digital World
• The digital world gives children the opportunities to express themselves to the world in a
wide range of areas. They can find their own passion and take it online (blog, wiki,
photography)
• We as teachers need to look beyond what we are used to. Break free of our past ideas
of how certain things need to be taught and engage with students in new learning
technologies.
• Education should no longer be a linear experience. Start here and get to there. This
does not happen. People go off in different ways and explore their talents.
• Students who are not great at the traditional forms of assessment can sometimes
flourish in the digital world. Boys. Harnessing their enthusiasm.
• Technology and passionate teachers provide an amazing opportunity for change in
education.

3. S.A.M.R.

4. In the beginning...

7. Moving Online
• Online work can make assessment
easier because students work is all
accessible via your computer.
• Students can submit work in their own
time online even when they are not in
school
• Assessment criteria can be made
available to students and accessible 24/7

8. • Online space where students and teachers can
communicate, work and share
• Students love it!
• Easily make groups of students by providing
them with a code
• A portal for proving an assessment platform
• Easily upload documents, links, movies for
students to view or use as assessment
resources
www.edmodo.com

14. Take a tour

15. • User name: oxfordteststudent
• password: 123456
www.edmodo.com

16. • www.weebly.com
• Free Web based, web creation tool.
• Easy to use
• Create blogs
• Open ended platform with great potential for all
students
• Easily managed by teachers for powerful
assessment
‘Should I publish to my Teacher or the
world?’ Alan November

18. • Year 6 Students were given the task of creating an
informative project on a desert.
• How can we redefine the task so that it will capture
the enthusiasm and potential of our student?
• I introduced Weebly to the students and taught the
basic skills of creating and publishing a webpage.

19. • Setting up the task meant creating a mock site with
general guidelines. Students could visit this site at
• http://desertsafari.weebly.com

20. Managing Students on Weebly

22. Interactive Displays With Weebly Pages
• Google the site qrcode.kawa.com
• Free QR Generator tool for scanning with mobile devices

23. • A free space to collaborate with students on a
topic
• Easy to setup and easy for students to access
• Simple concept many great uses
• Class discussions, questions, links, images,
timelines, biographies, assessment
www.padlet.com
Formerly Wallwisher

27. Nearpod
• Deb Class lists

28. Nearpod

29. Dropbox & Drive
• Dropbox and Google Drive are online storage solution that
allows users to share folders with others so that they easily
access the same files. Drive and Dropbox can be
downloaded as an app or software for Mac or PC.
• I use Dropbox to collect student iPad work for assessment.
Year 2 students are able to...
• access assessment tasks
• complete the task on the iPad
• save the completed work into their own folder which I
have access too.

30. Dropbox & Drive
Teacher shares a folder with student on Dropbox
Teacher saves an assignment to the shared folder
Student completes task and clicks save which updates
the shared file to the teacher and student.

31. Dropbox & Drive

32. Google Drive Online Docs
• Google Drive gives us the ability to share files and folders
but also work on these files simultaneously (real time)
• Students share a folder with a teacher in Drive and the
teacher has access to that folder for assessment
documents, editing, revision etc.
Students share a folder that pops
up on teachers Google Drive

33. • A new way to hand in work
• A great way to store your files
• A brilliant way to share files
Google Drive Online Docs

34. Google Drive Online Docs

35. Numbers
• Everyone has used Excel to enter in student data at some stage.
having the freedom to move around the class and take fast,
anecdotal notes on student checklists makes assessment easier. I
use Numbers to make fast appraisals of student achievement levels
without having to write down and retype information in later on.
Great for outside work, P.E., field trips, camps or just moving
amongst your students.
• Deb Class lists
• Video PE
• Demo

36. Numbers

37. Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screen
casting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you
annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost
anything to and from almost anywhere.
Cost: $2.99
Publisher: MorrisCooke
App Store rating: ****

38. The Good
•Powerful app that is very open ended
•Great for year levels from 1 - 12
•Wide range of tools to incorporate web, photos, videos
•Computer based player software available
The not so Good
•Takes a while to get the hang of
•Exporting can take a while from the iPad
•Videos can make files very large
EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
Educational Value
•Students learn by explaining a concept
•Speaking, writing, sequencing, editing, publishing

39. Explain Everything
Starting out:
Year 1 students teach each other how to draw

40. iPad: Explain Everything
• $2.99 in the apps store
• Explain everything is an excellent tool for gaining deeper understanding of
students comprehension. Essentially the app records what's happening in
the screen so that the user can draw, talk, move objects, insert
images/video/websites.
• Teachers can really see and hear if a students understands the concepts
they are trying to explain. To really understand something we should know
how to teach it.
• Once recorded the video files can be shared via Dropbox, email or synced
to iTunes.

41. iPad: Explain Everything

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