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Using Seesaw to Enhance PreK-2 Student Engagement and Learning

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Agenda: In Action Using Seesaw to Enhance PreK-2 Student Engagement and Learning

Agenda: Using Seesaw to Enhance PreK-2 Student Engagement and Learning

Learn/Create

The Importance of Digital Tools In Early Childhood Education

Technology can be a beneficial tool that allows teachers to educate, engage, and interact with young learners.

Read the article "Technology in Early Childhood Education: How to Use Technology to Promote Children's Growth and Development"

mybrightwheel.com-Technology in Early Childhood Education.pdf

Personalized learning is an instructional approach that empowers students to build ownership of their learning. Seesaw can greatly enhance personalized learning by providing students with unique, immersive, and interactive educational experiences.

As you work through creating activities for your students, and they work to complete it, think about which components you are seeing throughout this learning experience.

Let's Learn about Seesaw

Understanding the Seesaw Interface and the Seesaw Library

Please review the Google Slides, Quick Start Guide, and watch the Video below to learn more about Seesaw.

Seesaw is one platform for educators, students, and families. Seesaw will bring instruction to life through engaging, multidimensional leanring experiences that encourage student voice and choice.

Seesaw 101: The Essentials - Presentation Slides

Seesaw Quick Start Guide for Teachers

Seesaw offers a library of standards-based lessons that can be edited to meet the needs of your students and curriculum goals.

Family Connection and Engagement

On Seesaw, family members can support a child’s learning at home in powerful ways.

Comment on the child’s Seesaw posts (Note: Family can only see their child’s work.)
Families can stop asking “What did you learn today?” and start asking about learning posted in Seesaw.
Keep the child’s learning year-over-year.
Participate in family learning activities, as assigned to the child..

Create Activities in Seesaw

Now it is time to get started and create your first Seesaw Activity for your students!

What activity will you create for students to complete?

*Remember you can modify an activity that has already been created. Open the activity, click on the three dots in bottom right corner and select "copy and edit".

Below you will find curriculum allgnment documents for various curriculum that is being used in RCSD. These are working documents and lessons will be added by Seesaw. These would be great documents to reference as you plan to implement Seesaw in your classroom. Be sure to save them to your Google Drive!

LETRS and The Science of Reading in Practice with the Seesaw Library.pdf

ELA LETRS

Amplify Science: Seesaw Curriculum Alignment

Amplify

Second Step SEL: Seesaw Curriculum Alignment

SEL Second Step

In the following discussion, you will share your a brief description of the activity you created, a link to the assignment, and a screenshot of the assignment posted for students to access in Seesaw.

eCLC Implementation Cycle

Discussion: Sharing Your Seesaw Activity

Once you have created your Assignment, let's post and share so we can all get ideas from one another! How did your colleagues use Seesaw with their students?

Please start a post and include the following information about your assignment:

State grade level and subject
Link to Seesaw assignment- click here to learn how to access the link
Describe the activity in a few sentences.
Include a screenshot of your assignment posted in Seesaw for your students to access.

Read through your colleague's posts and engage in reflective collegial discussion.

Ask probing questions, answer questions that others have, expand on ideas, agree or disagree (include why), provide helpful suggestions etc.
Use your discretion on a number of times to post, however, discussions are not one and done. You'll need to revisit this discussion to see what other ideas have been added

Implement & Reflect

Implementing Student Driven Activities & Collecting Artifacts

Now that you have created your Seesaw Activity and posted to get feedback from colleagues, it's time to use it with your students!

As your students work through your activity, collect the artifacts of their work. Remember, you will want to include:

at least 3 snips of student completed activity when they submit it
Photos of students working

You will need to share these artifacts in the next assignment (Classroom Implementation Discussion).

Classroom Implementation Reflection

After your students have submitted their activity to you, create a post in which you:

Reflect on implementation of the activity: what went well, what can be improved, and what support you might still need.
Include some artifacts- at least three snips of the student completed activity, and if possible, images/videos of students working.
Answer this question: How did using Seesaw for student work change your experience teaching and the students experience learning?

Read through your colleague's posts and engage in reflective collegial discussion.

Ask probing questions, answer questions that others have, expand on ideas, agree or disagree (include why), provide helpful suggestions etc.
Use your discretion on a number of times to post, however, discussions are not one and done. You'll need to revisit this discussion to see new ideas added.

The Family Connection

In module 2 you were asked to connect to families with the home learning codes. Please submit a snip from seesaw showing that families have connected to your Seesaw Classroom.

Click on the wrench in top right corner, scroll down to families, click on connected families.

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