Using+Student+Digital+Work+as+Body+of+Evidence

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The day of the written word as the sole communication style is long gone as students use a variety of media to express their deep understanding of topics across the curriculum. Like assessing student writing, using student digital products is a natural vehicle for measuring a student's ability to communicate what was learned in effective ways that benefit others as well. So many initiatives begin with teaching technology skills with an assumption that the art of designing value-added lessons for higher order thinking and communication will naturally follow. Using the lens of student work focuses teachers on reflecting and developing rigorous content tasks FIRST while developing skills in using research-based assessment tools for scoring digital products. Experience data-driven, rigorous results for large grants or other school initiatives when student digital products are used as tangible artifacts and evidence of successes. These digital products provide a wealth of instructional evidence documenting individual learning skills as well as developing a system analysis of the impact of technology on student achievement, organizing staff development and accelerating school-wide goals. ======

**Suggested Readings and Resources **
• [|Bernajean's Articles and Book Resources URL] • [|Looking at Student Work URL] • [|Evaluating Student Digital Products: Resources and Training for Using Student Scoring Guides (BOOK URL)] • Raising the Bar for Student Achievement Using Digital Work (ISTE) PDF • TYPES and MODES of Communication PDF

Group Task II:
Student work puts educators face to face with bottom line results from technology access, training and other implementation strategies. This group task will code Student Digital Work as either Literacy / Adapting / Transforming. Table mates will view 2-3 student digital products to determine the RIGOR aka L-A-T. Have either the **H.E.A.T Spectrum** visible or use either of the following embedded images for **Learning Spectrum** **/ Bloom's Back**.

Links in Use During this Session

 * Group Comments / Reflections / Questions Area (Today'sMeet: Micro-blogging - BackChannel with hashtag #lowf)
 * Group Collaborative Document Processor (Make Your Own Public Etherpad)
 * DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories
 * Scoring Guides for Student Digital Work
 * Polling Tool (Poll Everywhere)