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Elizabeth Jackson || Workshop Title Using iPads to Inform Instruction || Day 5 || iPads Formative Assessment |||||| Prerequisite Knowledge
 * Your Name
 * Subject(s) of the day's workshop

Basic functionality of iPads (downloading and accessing applications), Strategies for solving multi-step equations ||
 * =Content =

The goal of this workshop is to identify ways that iPads can be used as formative assessment tools to evaluate student understanding and application of classroom content. In this workshop, students will explore some of the free applications offered by Apple, and use them in classroom contexts to improve mathematics instruction. ||
 * =Objectives =
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants will use EduCreations to record and send problem solving strategies.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants will collaborate about ideas using Popplet to create and sort an idea web.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants will use the LanSchool software to communicate with their teacher, and to identify ways to monitor student progress.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants will use PenUltimate as an electronic exit card to gather data.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants will analyze formative assessment data to identify patterns and students who require reteaching. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesson =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion of workshop goals and expectations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Class downloads EduCreations, Popplet, LanSchool, Subtext, and PenUltimate. Students will explore new applications to become better acclimated.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 1: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will read the article, //Technology-based assessments improve teaching and learning//. Then, discuss the importance of formative assessments as a group.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher will give students a warm-up mathematics problem using EduCreations. Students will voice record and use the iPad whiteboard to solve the problem with a strategy they know. Then, students will send their response to their teacher.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 2: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will receive a picture from the Popplet application. Students will collaborate to identify math equations/situations they see in the picture. Their ideas will form an idea web.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While they are working, teacher views the strategies sent via the EduCreations program. Teacher chooses a few of the student strategies and displays them on the Promethean Board. Teacher works with students to solve equations from the Popplet application using student strategies. Teacher first models the strategies, then guides students to use them.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 3: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students solve different problems using the strategies of their choosing. Teacher monitors student progress using LanSchool. While students are working, teacher can poll/ask questions, send messages to students, and students can respond or initiate help requests.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher should identify students at varying levels of success while LanSchool is activated, and display their assignments on the Promethean Board anonymously. Teacher and students should discuss student progress and identify patterns. Students and teachers will discuss analysis strategies and identify students who would benefit from addition support/reteaching.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 4: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students use Subtext application to blog about their impressions of the different strategies and identify their favorite method to solve mathematics problems. = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 5: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher sends students an exit card using the PenUltimate application. Students receive screen capture of different student work and identify one of the students who needs reteaching. Then, they would identify the strategy or strategies they would use with their students to solve the math situations the following day. They should identify applications and instructional strategies. Students respond with their answers and email their responses. Teacher receives student responses and access to all of student work, even if they erase it and start over. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Materials =


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">iPads and iPad applications: Students and teacher will use these resources to access the workshop activities and resources.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wi-Fi: Students and trainer will use the internet to download applications and correspond in real time.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ActivInspire software and Promethean Board: Teacher will use these resources to display information from the workshop.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Printed directions: Reference for students to assist with application usage.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Article link: Students will read the article to learn more about formative assessment. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Evaluation Strategies =
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Classroom observations: Teacher uses a checklist while conducting classroom observations to identify students that use applications successfully, with or without printed directions.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Class participation: Does student participate in formative assessment discussion and help with the creation of the classroom idea web?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exit card: Can student identify a student who needs additional help? Does he or she recognize that multiple strategies are necessary for instructional success (both instructional and applications)? ||