Element 13: Helping Students Reflect on Their Learning

Element 12: Helping Students Record and Represent Knowledge

Element 12 from Marzano's Teaching Framework talks about the use of digital academic notebooks.  There are many products out there that work well in developing a digital academic notebook for taking notes, outlines and reflections.  One product I want to feature is Evernote.  I am an avid Evernote user and have used Evernote since Feb of 2012.

At its simplest form, Evernote is a digital notebook allowing you to collect multiple forms of digital content, from text to photos, to web links, to document files, to audio recordings, and more.  It is a powerful indexer of information.

With the ability to categorize your content into separate notebooks and label each note with linkable tags, you can thoroughly organize your digital stuff.

This is a great tool for students to use when creating their own digital academic notebooks.  Evernote also is integrated in the iPad operating system.  Users can save content from their Safari web browser straight to their desired Evernote notebook.

Because Evernote is a cloud-based product, users will be able to access their content from almost any device or computer.  Evernote is very multi-platform.  As a result of this feature, users (students) will have to create their own account using an email account as verification, so make sure you check with your Administrators first before allowing students in your class to start creating accounts.

To learn more of the potential and the power of Evernote, YouTube is literally LOADED full of thousands of very helpful tutorials.  Goes to show it is favored by many, many people.

Links:
Online Evernote account
Evernote app on iTunes

Marzano's Element 4: Establishing and Maintaining Classroom Procedures

Having your student involved with the establishment of classroom rules and procedures not only empowers your students to make good choices, but encourages them to invest in their own behavior.  One great way to maximize classroom involvement with all your students when creating rules and procedures with them is the use of online collaborative services.

Padlet is a FREE product that has been out for a rather long time (in the digital world even 5 years is a very long time).  It is still a very effective tool for classroom collaboration and involvement.   Padlet allows you to create an online classroom discussion on one closed discussion platform.  Visually Padlet is similar to a bulletin board where users can post their content and ideas for all of those involved on the board to see and comment to.  And, Padlet works on any device.

Here is a video walk-through of how to use Padlet.

Celebrating Success

Want to find an opportunity to celebrate success?

Utilize your Moodle course or Google Classroom

Excerpt From: Sonny Magana & Robert J. Marzano. “Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/SuDCU.l

#EdTech: Clearly Articulating Learning Goals

Utilizing your Moodle course or creating a Google Site are just two ways you can keep your students ahead with clearly articulating learning goals.

Excerpt From: Sonny Magana & Robert J. Marzano. “Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/SuDCU.l

Technology vs Technology Integration

Excerpt From: Sonny Magana & Robert J. Marzano. “Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/SuDCU.l

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Dr. Marzano and his team from this book took a look at both positive, negative and neutral views of whether technology is making an impact on learning or whether it is being used at a "trojan horse" for policy reform.  I think this quote sums it all up; at least the second part of this.

This is Technology Integration.