Meeting The Standards
Standard 1
c. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes
Each student completed their own iBook using the BookCreator for iPad app. During the planning stage, they could share notes and come up with example questions to work on together. When it came time to record their videos on the four types of equations, students checked each other for accuracy.
Standard 2
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
Students were required to have at least three elements to show proficiency in each of the four math operations with one-step equations: written notes/examples, verbal details, and visual cues. For the latter two elements students used a variety of tools to capture voice recordings, screencasting, and video captures of a student solving the problem in person.
Standard 4
a. Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources
The project was differentiated further for students working on the most challenging iBooks. They came together as a group to create a new book on how they thought two-step equations should be solved. At the end of the book, they cited sources by stating which individuals were responsible for certain quotes and/or pages of work. Plus, video attributes were given to the members who took a shot at the challenge questions and recorded their thinking and work as they solved the problem(s) on video.