3.7: Communication & Collaboration:
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Artifact
Student Executive Functioning Self-Regulation Log Reflection As a communication and collaboration medium, Google Drive is a phenomenal free resource that teachers should milk for all it is worth. I use Google Drive with students, parents, peers, and the larger community regularly. One artifact that demonstrates this usage is the Student Executive Functioning Self-Regulation Log, a detailed graphic organizer that I created to help an over-anxious student organize her week and stay on top of her assignments. She is a documented gifted student, but she struggles with executive functioning skills. After interviewing her and her parents, the student and I collaborated to create a Google Sheet that we worked together to populate each week. She, her parents, and I had access to it via Google Drive, and we used it to help her through a tough two months of school and to improve her self-regulation skills. The Student Executive Functioning Self-Regulation Log was shared between the student, her parents, and me, and she used it regularly until she grew to no longer need it for self-regulation. I extended the method for use with other students and their parents, then shared the usefulness of Google Drive with peers and the larger community through a blog post entitled “Google Drive – The Internet’s Office Door” and a staff presentation entitled “Energizing Schools by Going Google”. From completing this artifact, I learned that self-regulation is powerful for learning. Getting the student to stop and organize her week opened the door for her to truly develop her executive functioning skills. Had I to do this experience over again, I would have incorporated some extra self-regulation and executive functioning tips to extend her development beyond classwork monitoring and into physical document and content organization. The impact on this student’s learning was determined by her ability to raise her grades from failing to As and Bs. This year, Cobb County has adopted One Drive, Microsoft’s version of Google Drive. It is my hope that One Drive has the same and even more potential for communication, collaboration, and student learning. I also hope that the implementation of One Drive will be monitored and that student learning and faculty development impact will be assessed for Return on Investment (Boser, 2013). Looking at the financial implications may encourage administrators to push harder for technology integration in teachers’ classrooms. References Boser, U. (2013). Are schools getting a big enough bang for their education technology buck? Center for American Progress. Retrieved from https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/UlrichEducationTech-brief-3.pdf |