SeeSaw Project

The Goal:

• Improve home/school communication to support learning while building inclusive practice.

Rationale:

• A link to classroom activities may help parents offer more direct support and encouragement as students attempt to reach their learning goals.
• Families are increasingly incorporating digital communications to stay in touch with one another, so acceptance for this tool is likely to be positive.
• This tool offers an inclusive way for students to demonstrate learning. In addition to writing, students can photograph, video, illustrate, attach web links, or attach files created using other apps. Example: audio recordings. Each of these artifacts can be flexibly tagged to appear under various learning goals, readily available for review in future assessment conversations.

How it works:

• The app, which will run on classroom iPads, is easy to use and offers the opportunity to represent learning with a photo, video, a drawing, a link, a note, or an uploaded file created in another app. It has a version for parents as well, allowing a private and secure update on their child's learning.