http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7GJSNDJ (copy and paste link)
Description of and rationale (linked to learning theory/Bloom's Taxonomy) for how the technology might be used with and preferably by students: The rationale for using SURVEY MONKEY in the classroom enables students to express what they have learned in class through surveys/ quizzes about topic material. The students will find that SURVEYMONKEY will open the door to them for many parts of Bloom's Taxonomy. The students will find SURVEYMONKEY as a great tool to help them remember material from class by Creating surveys as a review to keep on top of current class issues. Understanding is another part of Bloom's taxonomy that would be enabled when using SURVEYMONKEY, the students will be able to save posts and surveys that they made to return to and to help them better understand material. Students will also Apply what they have learned from SURVEYMONKEY and by using it they will find different ways to use it. They will learn that by using SURVEYMONKEY the student can review, store, create and enjoy learning and find that SURVEYMONKEY can be a resource for many school related projects. Evaluating and justifying work a student has done will become easy when using SURVEYMONKEY. Students will be able to stand on a decision when using SURVEYMONKEY by addressing their school work in the form of questions making only one possible answer as the correct one. Finally by using SURVEYMONKEY students will remember large amounts of information at a time in the form of quizzes and surveys and will be able to test each other to make the remembering process even more concrete.
Consideration of struggles for implementation (student, systemic, and/or hardware: SURVEYMONKEY can be hacked and may not keep all student surveys and work private. The number of surveys you do a day can be limited when using the free version of SURVEYMONKEY. Requiring work to be done at home could become a struggle for students who don't have internet access making most of the computer time done in class. Another struggle would be that students can't comment on each others surveys.
Consideration of the biases and trade-offs of the technology: SURVEY MONKEY is biased towards students with less financial help, making SURVEY MONKEY more accessible to students with money available to upgrade to more intense versions. SURVEY MONKEY can make teachers bias to having quizzes or surveys done on paper. It is also bias towards group activities and outspoken students. Tradeoffs for using SURVEY MONKEY would be, no oral presentations in the classroom, not much interaction between students unless working on a survey together. No pressure would be on the students to complete the survey or quiz in a timed manner unless specified and they wouldn't get the competitive atmosphere of doing a quiz orally or in front of the class. Surveys could be used the wrong way, by asking the students to compete for the best survey and questions instead of engaging their learning and remembering of material.
Explanation of how the project meets the selected teacher standard and student standards: SURVEY MONKEY meets INTASC standards 4, 6 and 8.
4) As a teacher being aware of using technology in a poor way, they will understand instructional strategies to get students using SURVEY MONKEY in a review, homework and performance way.
6) A teacher will be able to give the students verbal instruction about how to access the website and general idea of it but then letting the students explore and make their own creative surveys.
8) The teacher will be able to assess the progress of students based on the surveys and quizzes they make. The teacher will be able to evaluate their interest level, academic progress and enjoyment by monitoring the website.
Teacher Tech Standards
1) SURVEY MONKEY is a great tool to encourage and inspire creativity with students to explore how to better learn material by creating their own learning tool.
TS4) SURVEY MONKEY promotes digital citizenship and responsibility of their own creations and how to exhibit ethical and appropriate wording for how to learn with SURVEY MONKEY.
Student Tech Standards
1) Creativity and Innovation are key aspects that come with using SURVEY MONKEY with it being a great tool for students to create on their own and who their learning style.
4) With SURVEY MONKEY, not only will students get to be creative with their own survey creations but will also use critical thinking, problem solving and decision making when completing a survey/quiz online made by the teacher or other students.
5) Digital Citizenship will be a main concern and learning oppertunity when using SURVEY MONKEY. The students will get to monitor their own survey creations as well as get ideas from others and not taking credit for it as their own.
4) As a teacher being aware of using technology in a poor way, they will understand instructional strategies to get students using SURVEY MONKEY in a review, homework and performance way.
6) A teacher will be able to give the students verbal instruction about how to access the website and general idea of it but then letting the students explore and make their own creative surveys.
8) The teacher will be able to assess the progress of students based on the surveys and quizzes they make. The teacher will be able to evaluate their interest level, academic progress and enjoyment by monitoring the website.
Teacher Tech Standards
1) SURVEY MONKEY is a great tool to encourage and inspire creativity with students to explore how to better learn material by creating their own learning tool.
TS4) SURVEY MONKEY promotes digital citizenship and responsibility of their own creations and how to exhibit ethical and appropriate wording for how to learn with SURVEY MONKEY.
Student Tech Standards
1) Creativity and Innovation are key aspects that come with using SURVEY MONKEY with it being a great tool for students to create on their own and who their learning style.
4) With SURVEY MONKEY, not only will students get to be creative with their own survey creations but will also use critical thinking, problem solving and decision making when completing a survey/quiz online made by the teacher or other students.
5) Digital Citizenship will be a main concern and learning oppertunity when using SURVEY MONKEY. The students will get to monitor their own survey creations as well as get ideas from others and not taking credit for it as their own.
Your reflection addresses all aspects, but is a bit superficial in some respects.
ReplyDeleteWhile you address Bloom's, you overly focus on remembering rather than higher order thinking skills. You do note application, but it doesn't seem you are having students apply using surveymonkey. Instead, they are using what they remember from working with surveymonkey to apply to other projects.
Also, you discussion of trade offs are more struggles than anything since you came up with a way to address each trade off. A more nuanced trade off would be that students cannot draw pictures to answer surveymonkey questions or that they are limited in the kinds of questions they can create.
Overall, these are not huge concerns and resulted in only a total of 1 pt reduction.
As a side note, I don't think you filled out the "tech survey" before you left class today. Please do that as soon as you are able. The address is: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHMtQU9rWU5JZFVkQ1RpaEc1dmgtRUE6MQ
Let me know if you have questions (send me an email or tweet).