School systems today are continually getting more pressure to improve student learning. Teachers are feeling a rising pressure from federal, state, and local groups to improve student achievement. The use of quality and organized data has become more vital in how educators assess their practices and screen their students’ educational progress. The question is, how do school communities use Google Apps in a meaningful way to improve student learning and teacher’s professional development.
First is through school wide collaboration. Teachers can sort and share their data utilizing Google spreadsheets. Teachers can increase efficiency utilizing Google docs for sharing and being able to edit and use others information and findings in their pedagogy. For example if a teacher did research on what technologies are working in the classroom to increase student learning’s the data could be organized a shared threw out the school community’s utilizing Google apps.
Second is student engagement utilizing Google Apps. Google Apps are a great tool to publish student’s work. Google Apps provide multiple sharing settings with the intent to share students work threw out the school community. Third is sharing reports, school activity’s with parents.
I totally agree with your post and think that so much good could come from school-wide collaboration amongst teachers. I didn't even think about using Google Apps to share school activities with parents, but that's a fantastic way to keep them in the loop and even to reach out to the community. I also like how you mentioned student engagement because they become so immersed in their work when they can use technology. Great post!
ReplyDeleteStudent engagement is a huge factor. If your students are "turned off" then there is no learning that is going to be done. I also think that utilizing tools to help teachers to collaborate more efficiently is a huge benefit in the sharing aspect. It makes it much easier and not as tedious as some educators have said to me in the past.
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