Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Evaluation
This week while reading through a few discussion threads a common theme of evaluation came out. A few learners mentioned the lack of timely feedback, others being graded on the final product rather than the process. As I relate this to my young learners I immediately think of their favorite game "Teach Your Monster to Read." This game like most edutainment provides Assessment AS Learning. So if the student chooses the wrong consonant they have an immediate chance to learn from their mistake. One of my biggest challenges in my analog classroom is teaching sight words. The class practices with a variety of games but unless I am playing with them, they receive no feedback as to whether they read the word correctly or not. In my module I plan on creating games that provided immediate feedback to the learner so they can learn the word correctly.
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I have worked with kinders for several years and they are amazingly responsive to technology. One thing I have noticed in the software marketed to younger students (edutainment) the correct answer has some type of positive reinforcement. The problem is the struggling reader will keep clicking till they get the star/reinforcement but not be learning to read. As someone who tutors struggling young readers I will be interested to see your module.
ReplyDeleteHey Meagan-
ReplyDeleteI am going to be excited to read your blog as I think we are both on the primary end of technology. I loved your suggestion of the site Teach your Monster to Read. I have already made class lists for two of my sections to get them onto next week. I think they are going to love it. What are you thoughts/ideas for technology and assisting new readers?