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What students will see.
You can use the magic pencil to generate an AI answer choice explanation. OR the plus sign to add media.
Answer Choice Explanations
Immediate feedback notes teachers can add to answer choices that help their students understand any misconceptions they may have as soon as their score is returned.
Research suggests that providing students with meaningful feedback can greatly enhance their learning and achievement. "When someone experiences an obstacle in learning - such as choosing an incorrect answer - and they are presented with real-time feedback about why their choice was wrong, they are motivated to set higher goals for themselves, and bridge the gap between their input and the goal, to improve performance. This satisfies a feeling of autonomy. "(Markovic)
With this feature students will receive feedback on their answer choice instantly (while they are taking the assessment).
Use one of these settings in combination with Answer Choice Explantions to provide feedback to students!
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Teachers can use Smart Chips to make their documents more interactive. For example, a smart chip containing a co-worker’s name opens a card with their contact info. Smart chips include dates, links to related files or meetings and interactivve dropdowns. A related feature in Google Docs is called building blocks. Meant to be used in conjunction with smart chips, these are mini-templates that you can insert in your documents for tracking projects, drafting emails, and more. Like smart chips, building blocks are designed for collaborative work.
Smart Chips and Building Blocks for Google Docs
Troubleshooting: If a student is present but you are seeing "Student is not online" try restarting the session. Securly updates every 10 seconds, but for students that just restarted it could take up to 2 minutes. Additionally, if the student is looking at a different window like a calculator, they will appear offline until they return to the Chrome window.
If a student device is inactive for more than 5 minutes, they will display as inactive. This is shown in tab and detail view.
Appears when a student was deselected before the class was started, or because their device connected to Securly Classroom but was detected on an outside (non-school) IP address, which typically means they are absent from school and connecting from home or elsewhere.
Appears when a student is in the class, but their device has not yet connected to Securly Classroom. Can also appear when a student is viewing an empty tab.
Appears when the student's device is not online or not communicating with Securly Classroom.
Monitoring Students' Screens: Student States
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Appeal to the bot's emotional side (strange, right?). Emphasise the importance of getting this right.
Ask the bot to rate the quality of its response with evidence This will help you understand its thought process
Ask the bot to ask YOU questions that will help it provide you a more thorough and quality response
Control of the response Examples -tone -language -world length -format -readiing age -Etc.
Clear and specific about the information you're looking for The pedagogical approach or subject knowledge
Telling it what hat to wear for the task at hand Context for the AI so that it can achieve what you want it to accomplish
Hover over the image below to see an example of the FULL prompt!
Setting the scene and creating a foundation for the rest of the instructions Clear and concise command
Hover over the the text boxes below to see an examples!
Check out the PREPARE method developed by Dan Fitzpatrick for writing effective prompts!
Prompting AI Chatbots
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In a series of studies conducted by Lucas Education Research in 2021, researchers found that project-based learning (PBL) had a significant effect on improving learning equity. Essential Elements of Project-Based Learning According to the Buck Institute:
- Centers around a big and open-ended question, challenge, or problem
- Follows an inquiry-based process that stimulates curiosity and generates questions
- Incorporates concepts or skills that students should already know
- Requires using 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity
- Builds student choice into the process
- Provides opportunities for feedback and revision
- Check out how Amy Howerton monitors her students' progress while also promoting autonomy and reflection
- Requires students to present their problems, research processes, methods, and results
PBL and Progress Monitoring with Canva!
Because my student journalists work collaboratively as a team between two class periods, I needed a way to visually communicate students' progress in that process. In coordination with Jaclyn King, we developed a Canva whiteboard space to visually represent the publication process. Then, using Canva-edited photographs of each journalist, students can move their faces to the most appropriate spot on the whiteboard space. This helps all of the students journalists know where everyone is in the publication process so we can meet our collective deadline. It has worked out very well as a non-graded formative assessment!