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- Home base<\/li>\n
- Day-to-day workflow<\/li>\n
- Assigning tasks\/work<\/li>\n
- Collecting work<\/li>\n
- Grading and feedback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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- Artifacts & reflections<\/li>\n
- Choice in how to reflect<\/li>\n
- Share work with families<\/li>\n
- Receive comments on work<\/li>\n
- Tagging (folders)<\/li>\n
- Student-led conferences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Families can sign up to receive weekly emails from Google Classroom that summarize the assignments completed and owed by students. But families can’t access the details or see their student’s work inside Google Classroom. That’s a serious drawback.<\/p>\n
SeeSaw, in contrast, excels at bringing families into the learning cycle. It’s built on the premise that sharing student work with families will deepen connections and ultimately help the work be more meaningful to students.<\/p>\n
(I’ve experienced this with my own children. I get notified when their teacher approves work and I get to check it out and comment on it. Sometimes we have a back and forth exchange via comments (text or audio). And this can also lead to conversations at home.)<\/p>\n
The other major thing that SeeSaw does really well is provide kid-friendly tools for posting in a variety of modalities. Students can easily explain or reflect upon work via drawing, audio, video, text, or combinations thereof.<\/p>\n
The interface is quite clean and straightforward, with posts organized chronologically from top to bottom that families can scroll through. Students can post spontaneously or in response to teacher assignments, with the stream representing an ongoing cumulative portfolio of their work.<\/p>\n
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