Seesaw w/in PES

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 An example of how Seesaw is a good tool to make learning visible, to document learning within our school. John is in a Quick 60 group with Mel (Learning Assistant) They use Seesaw to record what they've been doing. -

  • As a class teacher I can see John is learning about cubes - that might connect to / inform my teaching in other areas e.g. maths. 
  • I have a recording of John's oral language I might use as evidence when making judgements on ELLP matrix. 
  • As SENCo I can consider how we can make the most of our intervention groups 
  • with digital hat on I am pleased digital teachnologies/learn create share is being used well by all teaching staff 
  • safety - the data is going straight into a secure place. With some of the new digital regulations/data storage laws coming in in other countries - those issues are a thing. And Seesaw is compliant with overseas data/privacy laws. 
 As it's on Seesaw - I was alerted to approve this post before it was published into John's learning journal. i.e. I was prompted to notice it. Some consider this an issue as the teacher becomes a gate keeper and has control over what is pushed out to journal and what gets deleted - so maybe the students right to free speech might be limited some....maybe...  Ultimately if I wanted to do that as a teacher and the students are using Blogger, I still can as I have admin rights to their blog.

 Seesaw is also being used well to monitor and share learning during Reading Recovery lessons. Class teachers can see what student's reading is sounding like during RR lessons, and also what prompts RR teacher is using. It is also an effective tool for monitoring discontinued Reading Recovery students.

 Seesaw provides us with analytics - e.g. we can measure parent engagement. We have quantitative data. Be good idea to make notes of qualitative data as well, i.e. Te Neha telling me that his Koko talked to him about his maths which he'd seen on Seesaw etc.

 Serah's Big Foot story is another good example. Serah is also an ELL student so we will use this to inform her ELLP.  This gives some clear next learning steps for Serah's writing too, which were noticed by her teacher :)

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