Padraic McCarthy

NY

Our school is adding Chromebooks to classrooms and I was fortunate to get a class set. Our school also uses Google Apps so I utilize Google Classroom which is very user friendly. The students have to adjust to completing and submitting work online, but once they get the hang of it, it becomes second nature. I am working towards having all of their lab reports typed and submitted online where I can...

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Kendra, Thank you for the help. I am very interested in using this type of assessment in my high school classes. One argument against oral assessment is that the unpredictability of the questions makes preparation difficult. Isn't that what a job interview is like? It seems to me that this type of assessment is definitely a work related skill. Recently, someone told me about inteviewing for a t...

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Kendra, Can you point me to some articles or resources about the two main aspects of your class, the oral defense and the scaffolding work. Paddy

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