As explained in an earlier post, the students in my grade 8 class at Sagonaska are encouraged to use a "Tech Game Plan". A tech game plan is simply a way for the students to present their understanding or completing a task in a way they are comfortable with. It comes from the ideas that no learner is the same and therefore there is no prescribed way, for different students, to present their knowledge to me.
We take a few minutes to go through new apps, accessibility features on different pieces of assistive technology each week. The students then choose how they want to manipulate their assistive technology to work for them. The prompt I use is "You use whatever you are comfortable with, as long as you can illustrate your understanding of the topic to me". As you can understand, this gets messy. To keep it clean, I almost always create a rubric with the students prior to the task. Rubrics are another great way for students to really grasp what exactly I am looking to get out of the task.
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