Chapter 15 – Future technology in my classroom

The one technology that could be used effectively in my classroom right now is an adaptive learning software linked to the previously mentioned CommonLit. Each text on CommonLit comes with five to six assessment questions all aligned to the appropriate Common Core reading standards. Currently, I can see how students perform on each question so I am able to see which standards my students have mastered and where they need to improve. Adaptive learning software what could help with assigning better assessment questions. At the moment I need to manually going through and check each student’s performance to make a list of problematic standards. We work in class and then I assign another CommonLit text with these standards, but from a lower grade level so students can focus more on the standards than the language. This could easily be automated with reporting to the teacher. It would also work in reverse. If one or two students are doing extremely well with particular standards but the rest need more practice, the adaptive software would assign more challenging texts with these same standards. Or the software could simply set individual assignments for individual students depending on past progress. This individualization is already possibly on CommonLit but the teacher must do it. Some automation and reporting would give teachers more precise data with less bookkeeping, allowing for more teacher energy to be spent on teaching.