EEND679 Artifact 2- Tech-based Assessment

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The next artifact that I chose was my tech-based assessment using Socrative. I have heard of Socrative before but have never used it. I decided to take a math quiz that I give to my students during our first unit on place value and modify it so I could be given using Socrative. I was able to take the images and place them in the questions very easily. I also loved the fact that I could provide an explanation of why each answer was correct. Even though this feature was optional, I felt that it would really help my students learn the content so they could understand why their mistakes were incorrect.

I felt that I learned the most from finding an assistive technology tool that would help my students. I quickly discover the application Speakit! and I was amazed by how easy it was to use. It is a free Google Extension where students are able to highlight any text that is on their screen and then click the icon and have the text read aloud to them. This extension would help so many students and it would prevent their reading ability from affecting them showing their understanding of the content. The only difficulty that students may encounter is being able to highlight the text. Therefore this skill would have to be taught and practiced before students could use the extension.

I plan on using both Socrative and Speakit! in my classroom this year and I feel that other teachers from my school would enjoy using these tools as well so I am excited to share this with them!

References
Socrative (2017). Retrieved from https://www.socrative.com/
Origo Slate (2017). Retrieved from https://www2.origoslate.com/