What is Seesaw?Seesaw is a tool that allows you to connect with students and teachers all in one place. The tool allows for a teacher to create a classroom, and then students can create and demonstrate their learning by sharing photos, videos, and drawings of their work. The tool allows for students to share their work with not only the teachers but parents, too. Parents can access and see what students are working on. Students can also journal and blog about different ideas they are learning; the teacher can then share those posts with other teachers, parents, the school, even the world. The teacher can create a classroom blog directly through Seesaw that allows for collaboration and sharing. This tool is really great because it demonstrates how students are learning and growing in class, and that can be shared with parents. Not only that, but teachers can send out announcements to parents, grade students posts, give feedback, plan events, message with parents and students, and more. Why should teachers consider it?Seesaw provides students an easy platform to practice applicable 21-st century skills. This can help meet the ISTE standards and SAMR model. Students will be able to take their work, use a technology to enhance it, share it and collaborate with others, and gain skills that are needed in a society dominated by a need for tech skills. With Seesaw, there is an application to Charlotte Danielson's Framework for teaching, specifically Domain 3: Instruction. With this tool, it is a great way to engage students in learning and being flexible for the different types of learning and creativity students will have. Not only is the tool free but accessible and easy-to-use as well. What does the tool look like?How could you integrate it into the classroom?Seesaw is a great tool because it really allows for co-curricular content integration into the classroom. Keeping in mind Domain 1a, this can really help with building what we are teaching using what the students know, where their zone of proximal development is, and what scaffolds we can use to help them. Something that is really important is being able to incorporate tools and tech that allows students to understand how the content applies to others and give them opportunities to learn while using their strengths to help their weaknesses. Seesaw specifically allows students to develop their communication skills and use skills developed in English/Reading classes to communicate what they are learning. For some students, being able to explain what they did and what they learn helps them apply and understand it. The student blogs also help meet ISTE standards for students, SAMR Model, the 4 C's, and others. ReflectionI believe that Seesaw is a really useful and great tool because I think that it is important for students to be able to show what they are learning and write about it; it really helps not just them but their parents as well because they can see how they have grown throughout the course. Having tangible and visible evidence of things they did can also help them to remember the things they learned because it will have a more meaningful impact. I think that it would be really cool to implement this into my classroom. References:
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