Here are the ten examples I showed at my English + Common Core + Mobile ISTE 2014 Poster Session:
Based on CCSS Anchor Statements:
L.2 Take a Conventions Mobile Online Quiz to pick the incorrect sentence from four choices (capitalization)
SL.2 Evaluate audio recording of a book chapter on mobile and predict for next chapter.
SL.4 Tell about a mobile picture of a place far from your home by using space organization.
SL.6 Present mobile recorded news to two different groups (HS class and elementary class).
R.2 Create a one minute small group video to record the theme of the story.
R.5 Analyze the structure in downloaded literature by doing a key word search.
R.7 Integrate mobile content. Find online image to show the meaning of each poem stanza by identifying the key words in the stanza.
W.5 Revise a paragraph about non-fiction article using point of view and claims. Orally dictate to voice to text on mobile, read, improve and re-record.
W.6 Publish school news as tweets; publish much info in few words.
W.7 Do map and image research for a novel like Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.
Use the 150+ different mobile activities in my ebook ,English Common Core Mobile Activities, to guide your students in learning and demonstrating the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Anchor Statements in Language, Speaking and Listening, Reading, and Writing. The activities, organized by Anchor Statements, actively engage your students. More than half the activities are non-fiction. Although the ebook is intended for grades 6-12, teachers at both the elementary and the college level can easily adapt the activities. Over 98% of the suggested apps are free and work on both Android and iPad. Many of these activities can be implemented immediately in the classroom. Each activity is described in detail; most students already can use the app in each activity. Students spend time in achieving the Anchor Statements, not in learning apps. Many of these mobile activities are done in pairs or small group so not all students need to have a mobile device. $7.99
How valuable is Peer Review?
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When my students hand in their final English essay, they also hand in their peer reviewed draft. I’ve noticed that usually they do not incorporate the changes that peers suggest.
I gave them a survey on peer review to help me better understand their use of peer’s comments. They admitted that they use very little of peer review.
Some of their reasons:
The reviewer isn’t as smart as I am.
I don’t care what they “feel” about my paper. What is good/bad according to the rubric?
They don’t understand the rubric.
It does not help me when a reviewer finds a mistake if he cannot tell me how to fix it.
They don’t understand my thinking/how I wrote the paper.
The reviewer found some spelling mistakes but missed the big things like my first body paragraph having two topics.
They don’t try/ they do not take it seriously.
How well do your students peer review each other? How valuable is the peer review to the author?
For any one who is interested in implementing formative assessment in the classroom, my book,
Formative Assessment: Responding to Students is available through Eye-on-Education.