Rob Darrow, Ed.D.

President, Online Learning VISIONS.com

Consultant, BayArea BlendEd Consortium

(San Francisco, CA) February 2016Website: http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com

Starting PointStarting Point Website: Website:

http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com – Google FormGoogle Form– Today’s MeetToday’s Meet– SocrativeSocrative– KahootKahoot– PadletPadlet

My Belief: Tipping My Belief: Tipping PointPoint

K-12 K-12 Online Learning Online Learning already there already there (close)(close)

Every school will become a Every school will become a blended blended learning schoollearning school to better to better personalize learning for all studentspersonalize learning for all students

Ultimate goalUltimate goal: Personalized learning : Personalized learning experience for ever student to best experience for ever student to best inform their future college and inform their future college and career choices. career choices.

The Ultimate SchoolThe Ultimate School Provides learning for Provides learning for

students in the way they students in the way they need it, when they need it:need it, when they need it:– Face-to-faceFace-to-face– Technology EnhancedTechnology Enhanced– BlendedBlended– OnlineOnline

This is a journey, not a destination.It takes time to

transform thinking and teaching.

How do you Assess student How do you Assess student learning in f2f?learning in f2f?

How do you Assess student How do you Assess student learning in f2f?learning in f2f?

Quizzes (written / oral) Quizzes (written / oral) Tests (written / oral) Tests (written / oral) DiscussionDiscussion ““Look in their eyes”Look in their eyes” One on oneOne on one

Assessments in online Assessments in online courses: Which are easier / courses: Which are easier /

which are more challenging?which are more challenging? Quizzes (written / oral) Quizzes (written / oral) Tests (written / oral) Tests (written / oral) DiscussionDiscussion ““Look in their eyes”Look in their eyes” One on oneOne on one

Formative AssessmentFormative AssessmentLearning by DoingLearning by Doing

DuFour, DuFour, and Eaker, 2006DuFour, DuFour, and Eaker, 2006

““Frequent monitoring of each studentFrequent monitoring of each student’’s s learning is an essential element of learning is an essential element of effective teaching; no teacher should effective teaching; no teacher should be absolved from that task or allowed be absolved from that task or allowed to assign responsibility for it to state to assign responsibility for it to state test makers, central office test makers, central office coordinators, or textbook publishers.coordinators, or textbook publishers.””

“ When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment;

when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative assessment .”

- Paul Black

Formative - SummativeFormative - Summative

Online Tools for Online Tools for AssessmentAssessment

Discussion BoardsDiscussion Boards TwitterTwitter BlogsBlogs And tons of other toolsAnd tons of other tools Think how you could use a Think how you could use a

phone or Instagram or Twitter…phone or Instagram or Twitter…

Online Assessment Online Assessment IdeasIdeas

Online presentations via Google Hangouts Podcasts group projects / collaborative writing Class blogs (students record and reflect on their

activities, questions, and outcomes online. e-portfolios (assess students online deliverables) case studies online threaded discussions (students answer

assigned questions and comment on others' posts) self-assessment (via instant feedback quizzes and

tests) presentations (student production of

PowerPoint presentations or Web pages) video projects student peer review 

For Further ReadingFor Further Reading 50 Online Assessment Tools: 50 Online Assessment Tools:

https://www.nwea.org/blog/2015/ghttps://www.nwea.org/blog/2015/growing-list-50-digital-education-rowing-list-50-digital-education-tools-apps-formative-assessment-tools-apps-formative-assessment-success/ success/

Top Tech Tools: Top Tech Tools: https://www.graphite.org/top-https://www.graphite.org/top-picks/top-tech-tools-for-formative-picks/top-tech-tools-for-formative-assessment assessment

Questions?Questions?Comments? Comments?

Whip AroundWhip Around

ContactContact Rob DarrowRob Darrow

Rob@onlinelearningvisions.com Rob@onlinelearningvisions.com http://robdarrow.wikispaces.comhttp://robdarrow.wikispaces.com

Bay Area BlendEd ConsortiumBay Area BlendEd Consortiumhttp://www.blendedconsortium.org/ http://www.blendedconsortium.org/