Seesaw

4Cs of 21st Century Learning

• Creativity:

  • • Students can use audio, text, microphone and drawing tools to show their learning

• Collaboration: 

  • Student work can be posted on a stream, which can provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration amongst peers

• Communication: 

  • • Students and teachers can share student work using a share link to communicate ideas with a larger audience

    • The blog feature allows students to communicate ideas and work with teachers, classmates and family members

• Critical thinking:

  • • Teachers can assign a variety of tasks 

    • Teachers can post resources for students to use and complete tasks accordingly 

    • Teachers can leave comments to provide feedback or ask open-ended questions.

VARK (For Students)

• Visual and audio component:

  • • Teachers can include visuals and audio through videos, images and audio on Seesaw activities.

    • Teachers can also post a recording of themselves sharing the instructions, content or feedback.

• Reading/writing component:

  • • Teachers can share text through Seesaw.  

    • Students can type or write responses to show their learning. 

• Kinesthetic component:

  • • Students can interact with the website links, videos, pictures, etc. which the teacher posts in the learning activity on Seesaw. 

      • Students can click on links or use the marker tool to draw

    • Learning activities can also include tasks such as finding objects, taking a video of themselves demonstrating a skill or connecting content to real-world experiences and posting pictures of their findings on Seesaw. 

    • Using the microphone tool, students can also record themselves reading the text or explaining their thinking process.