FOCUS: You may consider the elements of ‘SITE’ and the needs of your learners or audience(s). How does SITE apply to you as a learner?
I feel as though my driving question is right within my grasp, but then it slips through my hands. I am interested in finding the right digital tool that will help my students record their monthly reading progress and then hopefully turn it into an infographic that will help them visualize whether or not they achieved their goals. Instead of using just one data point (Reading Inventory) like I used in my action research project, I would like to use multiple quantitative measures (progress on the computer software, # of Reading Counts points, total words read, and comprehension %). I would also a place for students to reflect qualitatively about what specific strategies they used that month that were or weren’t effective for them. Now that I have a slightly better understanding of the SITE model, I wonder if this tool will help my 4th/5th graders form a path to their goal achievement? I have played around with Piktochart, but it definitely wasn’t kid friendly. I hadn’t thought about including the families as part of my audience, but maybe gathering their input in survey form (either digitally or on paper) would help motivate my students as well? I wonder if I can find a very simple way for students to enter their own data and create a visual graph/pie chart, etc so that they can visually see (a la Baggio) their progress month by month, instead of just measuring their reading progress 4 times a year by their lexile level? It is very disheartening for many of my students who continue to score BR (0) for as many as 2 years in a row. Naturally they feel that they are “stuck” when in fact they have made so much progress in many other areas of learning to read. Will seeing their quantitative data in a visual form help them more accurately reflect upon their own learning? Like I said, just when it seems like my final project is beginning to make sense, my list of questions seems to grow exponentially (I thought my math teacher Cohort friends would like that!)
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Jenny
10/29/2016 04:10:11 pm
Dana, I really think you're onto something phenomenal with your ideas! As a former Read 180 teacher, I can see this working so well for these students, many of which feel like they are falling further behind their peers when in fact they are making huge strides in catching up with them. I love your idea and can't wait to see what you come up with and where it will take these students!
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Florencia
10/29/2016 10:01:35 pm
Hi Dana,
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Lori Meyers
10/30/2016 03:49:25 pm
I absolutely love your idea of having students track their own progress to boost their motivation. I'm wondering if you can come up with additional data for the kids to track in addition to lexile level. One idea is data that might be "softer" (i.e., pages read, time spent reading, some kind of measure of enjoyment) for those kids who aren't improving as much in other ways.
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Joe Madigan
10/31/2016 06:36:49 pm
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one struggling with finalizing their research question. I feel like what I wrote my paper on was very interesting, and I'm still interested in utilizing technology in the classroom to improve engagement and achievement, but I feel like I'd like my direction to be even more focused...
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Dana HandI teach Read 180 at Northwood Elementary School and I am passionate about reading (obviously!) In my "free time" I love hanging out with my 2 teenagers and taking our two dogs for long walks. Archives
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