SeeSaw

               Seesaw is a tool that allows students to utilize digital learning, display their learning for their teacher, share their learning with others, and more. Teachers can share activities with students and see the students responses to these activities by student. Teachers are also able to classify student performance by skill so that they can truly measure whether students have mastered a given objective. Seesaw utilizes various forms of multimedia such as videos, images, text, and drawing capabilities on the computer. Not only are teachers able to communicate information, assignments, etc. through these forms, but students are also able to display their learning through these different outlets as well. Students are able to manipulate these already created items to show brainstorming, ideas, revisions, etc. on a given item.

            Teachers are able to create classes and then share assignments with just that class. The first step of a teacher is to create an activity including its title and instructions (through voice, text, or multimedia). Then teachers can create a student template for responses as a link, video, drawing, or file. In addition to creating activities, teachers can communicate with students, measure individual skills, blog as a class, and create a journal.



              How can it be used in 21st century learning and assessments? First of all, Seesaw streamlines the communication of instructions, information, and feedback between students and teachers. If schools are able to go to a one-to-one model, Seesaw would save a ton of ink and paper. It would also allow students access to more information through the various videos, links, etc. that could be shared with students. Most of all, it enables students to display their learning in real-time. As opposed to the labor of paper and pencil formative assessment, students can brainstorm, revise, or display knowledge right then and it can be seen in an easily organized fashion. Through its skills portion, Seesaw also gives teachers the ability to truly break down student mastery of individual objectives easily throughout the year. Teachers are overburdened by the efforts to do this during the year and often they only really look at data broken down by standard after standardized test results come back. Seesaw provide possibilities for teachers to be more effective without exerting passion killing effort.