ReturnSeesaw Rewind: Back to the Basics to Share Student Learning!
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Colorado Convention Center, 505/6/7
Participate and share: Interactive session 
Trips and ToursPresenters
Session description
Purpose & objective
Participants will understand the simplicity of utilizing a tool to provide open-ended yet supported ways for students to create to share their learning. Emphasis will be placed on students uploading their own work, or creating and adding projects from outside of Seesaw, rather than using pre-created templates or activities. We will showcase the multimodal tools and how each one provides important insight into students' learning. We will also demonstrate the benefits of connecting and communicating with families to share student work and learning.
Outline
We will begin with a short synopsis or "flashback" of ed tech in the past 8-10 years, and how things have changed so much in that amount of time. We will introduce ourselves as "Seesaw OGs", early adopters of ed tech with our young learners, who connected with one another over our shared use of this learning platform. We hope this will be a fun light-hearted look at how ed tech has changed, and we will involve the participants either with a collaborative whiteboard, device-based game or fun discussion. (15 min) We will then engage the participants in a "Seesaw rewind", where we will focus on the basic creation tools that the platform started with. We will show teachers how they can promote student creativity, choice and voice by allowing students to use the creative canvas and multimodal tools to share their thinking and learning. We will provide plenty of examples for successful use and a classroom for teachers to join to "play along" and experience the tools for themselves. (30 min) We then plan to let teachers share with one another, using the shared Seesaw class we create, with what they made and inspiration they have for using the creative tools in their own classrooms. We will save time at the end for FAQs as well as to share resources for teachers to learn more and continue to connect.
Supporting research
https://avidopenaccess.org/resource/ed-tip-the-benefits-of-student-creation/
https://www.commonsense.org/education/reviews/seesaw
https://cdn.iste.org/www-root/2023-06/ISTE_Seal_Findings_Report-Seesaw_Curriculum_2023.pdf
Session specifications
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS
Creative Communicator
- Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
- Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
- Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.