Student Driven Digital Portfolios Introduction for Parents

What is Seesaw? Seesaw empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school. Students capture learning with photos and videos of their work, or by adding digital creations. Everything gets organized in one place and is accessible to teachers from any device. Student work can be shared with classmates, parents, or published to a class blog. Seesaw gives students a real audience for their work and offers parents a personalized window into their child's learning.

Why Use Seesaw? Empower students to document their learning as it happens Develop students’ writing skills, reflection skills and critical thinking skills Give students voice and ownership Involve families in their child’s learning in real time! Develop 21st Century skills in safe, moderated environment Create a strong community around learning

Empower Students to Document What They’re Learning at School Students can “show what they know” using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. You can also import directly from many popular apps.

Collect and Organize Student Work from Any Device When students add to their Seesaw journal, content is uploaded, organized by student, and immediately accessible to teachers from any device and on the web. Seesaw makes it easy for students and teachers to review progress over time and demonstrate growth.

Journals are Organized, Sortable and Accessible Browse work from the entire class, or for a single student. Optionally, use folders to organize work by subject area or project. Teachers can flag items for follow up or to review at parent-teacher conferences.

Encourage Deeper Learning and Reflection Seesaw helps capture the learning process, not just the end result. Students can use Seesaw's built-in audio recording and drawing tools to reflect on what they've learned or explain how they got their answer. On iOS devices only, our recordable whiteboard allows students to create a video that combines drawing and audio recording to explain their thinking as they work.

Give Students an Authentic Audience Seesaw gives students an authentic audience of their peers, parents and even other students around the world, encouraging better work and real feedback. Teachers can control who can see what, and what feedback options are available.

Teachers are Always in Control Teachers approve all student journal entries and comments before anything is shared with parents. Teachers can customize all of the settings for their class, like: Student sign in mode Can students like or comment? Can students edit? Can students see each other's work?

Strengthen Connections Between School and Home Include families in the learning process by inviting them to view updates to their child’s Seesaw journal. Seesaw’s immediate, visual updates actually get seen by parents, provide encouragement for students, and cross language barriers. Parents can access Seesaw via iOS app, Android app or on the web.

Student Data is Safe and Secure Seesaw takes protecting your students’ security and privacy seriously. We will never sell or share any account information or journal content with 3rd parties without your explicit request. See our Privacy Policy for more details. Student journal content is only accessible to the people you invite to view it, like parents and administrators. Seesaw has taken the Student Privacy Pledge. You can read about all of our security measures we have in place on our website.

What is Wow! Work? Wow! Work is work that shows off: Something you are proud of Something that was hard to do that you figured out Something you tried for the first time Something you do well that you can teach someone else to do

How can parents/caregivers participate? You can join up and link to your child’s account so you can view their work and post constructive and encouraging comments. Great Comments Lead to Deeper Learning This is a dedicated learning space, not a version of Facebook

The best comments support learning and build others up The best comments support learning and build others up. Is your comment a conversation starter or conversation ender? Build others up with thoughtful and considerate comments Use commenting to ask questions and learn something new Offer insight and perspective, not just throwaway comments

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