Assessing Meaningful Learning

I find clicker to be a really interesting way to go about getting student’s involved in lessons while not completely calling them out and putting pressure on them. With this tool the students and professors interact with one another with more ease and it makes it easier for the professor to see if the students understand what is being taught. If the professor asks a question and the students pick the multiple choice answer they believe is correct, the results will show whether or not the majority of the class got the answer wrong or right. If the majority of the class got the answer correct than the professor can continue to move on, but if the majority of people got it wrong, the professor knows that they need to go back and re-teach the material. These clickers would be a good idea for assessing how much a student has retained from a previous class or how much the student knows coming in from a different class. Inspiration and kidspiration are really cool tools adults and kids can use to better map out their thoughts and project lines. Since both programs have a lot of different views and managing tools to choose from, it is understandable why a lot of schools are using both of these programs. Kids and adults alike can use this program to form a more solid foundation for school work or project management.

I have learned a lot of things from this class; at first it was very unclear to me why I needed to learn a bunch of random stuff about computers that I was sure I would most likely never use in my classroom. Overall though I think there are some specific things that have been kind of interesting to me. I really enjoyed finding out more about the programs that I look over everyday but never really use. I liked learning about blogs and wikis even though I probably will never use a wiki for anything. I really liked finding out more about podcasts, although I have to say that I am still a little unsure about how that works. If I could change anything about this class it would be that it is online. I hate trying to remember to do homework and I hate not having someone around to physically show me how to do stuff if I need help. Other than that I would say this is not the best class that I have ever taken basically because of all of the constant work; but this isn’t the worst class I have ever taken either.