Google Classroom Just Upped Its Game with Originality Reports and Rubrics
As a former high school and middle school English teacher, this week's G-Suite update was music to my ears--a built-in tool to check for plagiarism AND a built in rubric for assessment. Yes, please. Students can run originality reports on their own work before submitting. That's even better! Please read the details at this link before you try the new features. And I'd LOVE to hear how you and your students like the updates. I miss my petri dish of kiddos to try out new stuff!
Finding Copyright Free Images
Lori Gracey of TCEA recently posted some awesome resources in the TCEA Mobilize group. If your students are creating digital content, you have a great opportunity to embed a digital citizenship lesson on copyright.
Here are some of the copyright free image sites that Lori posted.
Blended Learning Spotlight: Student Agency
Student agency is one of the current educational buzzwords. You hear it a lot in the context of blended learning. A quick definition would be, "students taking responsibility and ownership of what they learn." Good, right? But student agency is so much more than that. I really like Jennifer Davis Poon's definition. Student agency involves initiating advantageous goals, initiating action toward those goals, reflecting and revising, and internalizing self-efficacy. Poon's blog (a two-part post), gives a detailed description of what student agency looks like and how a teacher guides the student along the path. Catlin Tucker offers a bullet-pointed How? What? Why? approach to building student agency. As we continue our blended learning journey, both articles provide context to the work we do.
