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April 27, 2015
A Middle School Version of Digital Passport!
I plan on using this with every middle school student, as well as 5th grade at the end of the school year. The optional writing assignments with a variety of recommended technology tools are wonderful, even including the assignment directions and a rubric for the teacher. This is ideal for extended learning and promotes student/academic choice, where students can then choose which prompt they want to respond to, as well as which technology tool they want to use to answer the writing prompt. One constructive piece of feedback would be to allow teachers to create classes (similar to Digital Passport), where students can log-in, and then teachers can look at the "dashboard" to view student progress, as well as allowing students to keep track of what they have finished/where they currently are in Digital Compass. As of now, students cannot log in, and they have to keep track of where they are on their own, and teachers cannot view a "dashboard" of student progress/work. Instead, students must either send or print score cards.
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