Journal Article

Teaching the Common Core: Exit Tweets and Wiki Blue Books

Kist, William

2014

Overview

As schools across the country are struggling to implement some kind of planned formative, interim, and summative assessments in response to the Common Core State Standards and a new generation of standardized tests, teachers are increasingly integrating various technology applications into their collection of assessments. This article describes existing examples of screen-based assessments that make use of mobile and multimodal formats to aid in all steps of the so-called “data-driven” cycle—collecting, analyzing, and acting upon what assessments tell us about our students. In addition, some creative applications of “new literacies” are suggested for each phase, suggesting that technology may allow classroom teachers substantial power that could be central, not peripheral, to the teaching and learning that goes on in their classrooms.