Digital Literacies from FutureLab

This is a brief review on the assessment of the Digital Literacies (from FutureLab) Gr 6-7 Science: Electricity in which students had Christmas decorations with flashing lights! In this case, the students produced a multimedia presentation to document their electricity learning.

Evaluation Tool for Primary School Case Studies: Electricity

Item Content	Multimedia Evaluation
	4 (V. Good):60- 79.9	5 (Excellent)-80-100
Collecting	Children participate in designing their curriculum by voting which involve gathering and collecting data, 76%
Organizing	Students worked together in groups of two or three for better organization, 77%
Manipulating		Students were able to use the videos, cameras and microphone,89%
Formatting	Students were make choice on which video and audio clips to include in the presentation,71%
Communicating		Students developed their group decision-making skills by deciding which pieces of information needed to be recorded., 92%

Overall Assessment 81%: Excellent

The review below gives a lesson intended to teach Newton's third law of motion. The table shows my assessment of this lesson (http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewResource/Preview/35387)

Evaluation Tool for ‘Newton's 3rd Law of Motion

Item Content	Demonstration On Newton’s Laws of motion
	4 (V. Good):60- 79.9	5 (Excellent)-80-100
Collecting		Asking students to think about the meaning of the law and how it relates to the picture involves collecting data, 80%
Organizing		Students given some minutes to organize notes, 89%.
Manipulating	students able to manipulate  their understanding on the scale relative to the learning objective, 71%
Formatting	Asking students how they have been able to move an object requires them make formatting 79%	.
Communicating		The teacher communicates clearly to the students on how they will be exploring how rockets use Newton's Third Law, 90%

Overall Assessment 81.8% Excellent.

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