Digital Assignments and Assessments

keys to success.

1.Relevant and Valuable2.Difficult to cheat3.Rich in media 4.Creative5.Require high level thinking skills

Digital Assignments

Don't just throw content online and build the community around it. Make your students interact with content in dynamic ways using rich and engaging tools. Digital assignments challenge your approach to student achievement, and afford you the opportunity to rethink what you want your students to learn.

Digital Assignment Success    

• Decide 'what you want your students to demonstrate'.

• Reshape assignments to allow students to demonstrate learning and achievement.

• Encourage collaboration when appropriate. 

Assignment Success - the technology• Allow for use of Web 2.0 tools - not just writing. • Teach and model appropriate use of tools.• Teach students about compatibility and open source.

o not all file formats are universalo stick with formats like PDF, RTF, jpg, and mpg.

  

Don't "reinvent the wheel". There are plenty of great tools out there to use...you don't always need to develop your own.

Digital Assessments

Assessments - going digital.

• Great opportunity to require deeper understanding.• Afford you the opportunity to reshape assessments.• Require appropriate use of tools.• Challenge educators to be dilligent in evaluating

student work for copyright and plagiarism.

Assessments - a shift...

• Creates the chance to change the locus.o paper and pen are not requiredo rich media can be usedo web 2.0 tools can show mastery differently

than writingo can take any form:

video/screencast audio/podcast infographics website

Assessments - where to start?    

• Use existing assessments as a base• Look at the types of questions, as they connect to

'what you want your students to demonstrate'• Change, combine, eliminate questions that don't

relate to the desired end• Rewrite questions to avoid cheating and sharing• Restructure assessments to show mastery learning• Require originality, citations, and creativity