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Digital Tools for Guided Instruction

Page history last edited by Lucas Gillispie 7 years, 5 months ago

Guided instruction focuses on teachers working directly with students in purposeful, small groups.  There's an emphasis on being aware of where learners are with grasping new concepts and guiding their learning with appropriate scaffolding.  Quick formal and informal formative assessments can help teachers determine students' learning.  Moving about, between groups, while listening, noticing, questioning, and responding to students as they explain their thinking is the primary strategy.  There are digital tools that can help!

 

Tools To Help You Know If Students "Get It"

 

There are many digital tools available to help you gauge student learning, however, leveraging them to support and scaffold learning might mean using them in different ways.

 

Blind Kahooting 

 

Kahoot is a fun, interactive way to review and formatively assess, however, there's a new strategy for using Kahoot that leverages the engaging power of the platform in a way that is powerful in Guided Instruction.  It requires thoughtful question design and ordering.  Want to learn more?  Check out this blog post (and "how-to") at https://getkahoot.com/blog/the-art-of-blind-kahoot-ing.

 

Socrative - Another tool for quick digital, formative assessment.

 

Formative - Formative allows you to see what and how the students are thinking through their learning and works on any device.

 

Still looking for more?  Check out 10 Alternatives to InfuseLearning for Assessments.

 

 

Screencasting

 

Students can screencast too!  Having a student think aloud, explaining what they know about a topic while drawing, writing, or marking up an image/diagram is a great way to assess their understanding.

 

Tools like Educreations, Explain Everything - Chrome, iOS, and others are great ways to capture and assess student learning.

 

Did you know there are apps and extensions that will also let your students add voice/audio to their Google Docs?  There are several examples here:  http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/6-steps-to-add-voice-comments-to-google.html

 

 

 

 

How This Connects to SAMR

 

Applying digital tools for Guided Instruction can be helpful to your learners, potentially making the experience more engaging, however, the impact on teachers' ability to assess student learning is where these tools really shine.  Not only do these tools help teachers capture and understand student learning digitally, (Augmentation), they also enable quick, formative feedback to students in ways that begin to transform the instructional process (Modification).  

 

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