1. Engaging K-12 Students Through Social Media & Other Technologies
Michelle Doyle, St. Celestine School
Ben Freville, Dominican University
IATEPC
Oct. 13th, 2016

2. Goal
Demonstrate awareness of tech tools for K-16 learners that promote agency, engagement, connectivity, and creativity.

6. Student Driven Digital Portfolio
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7. 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.

8. Get Seesaw for Your Device
Seesaw supports all the platforms you use and seamlessly works between them, making Seesaw great for BYOD environments.
iOS Devices
Android Devices
Chromebooks
Computers with Chrome or Firefox

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

10. 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.

11. Save digital creations from many apps into Seesaw.
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Save digital creations from many apps into Seesaw.
Photos, videos, links, PDFs—all go into Seesaw!
See a list compatible apps here

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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?

16. 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.

17. 60 teachers sharing one word that describes Seesaw!

18. Classroom Examples

19. Explain a math concept
Science reflections
writer’s workshop
assessment checks

20. Defining parallel lines
Collaborative group predictions
Reflect, document, & plan during...
Project based learning
Makerspace
Genius Hour
High school - info pics
Padlet link saved

21. Historical characters project
Journal writing with peer feedback
ELA: synonyms

22. Student Samples from Middle & High School
English: InfoPics
English: Book Mosaics
Emoji Vocab (right)
Writing Portfolio (right)
Speech: Visual Aids for Speeches/Presentations
History: Character/Historical Figure ChatterVids

23. Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
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24. Represent content in a visual format
Make meaning of content
Synthesize information
Develop conceptual understanding

26. Examples
Elementary
Secondary
Undergraduate
Graduate

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30. Which of these tools could you use in one of your classes? How?
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