With school reform is now focused on literacy and writing, and teachers in all subjects are finding ways to tackle the new standards. In my honors class, this delay serves to encourage students to submit in the preferred way. Students who submit assignments in other ways usually have a delay in when they are returned. I clearly tell them that my preference is through drive, since it allows me to sort papers into one folder. I have several projects where students must collaborate to create lab reports, powerpoints, and even websites.Īt this point, I do not require my students use Google Drive to share documents, they can optionally turn them in typed or share via email. Another benefit of using Google is the word processor that comes built-in, eliminating problems you might have with students who do not own copies of Word on home computers.Īnother advantage of using Google docs is that if you have students working on a group project, they can share the document with each other and work on it together without the need for meeting up in person or finding time in class. Once I got them used to the Google drive, I received a lot of positive feedback from them about how easy it was and that they now use drive for storing documents from other classes.
Most of my students were used to using word documents to print papers, sometimes storing them on a flash drive to move documents from home to school. With any technology you want to introduce into your curriculum, getting students to adopt the technology and use it can be a challenge. This type of one-to-one conversation would be difficult in a classroom with 30 students. I highlight text and make comments and the student can ask questions or clarify what they meant in the writing. The conversation below shows discourse with a student about an article summary submitted. The result is discourse between teacher and student that probably wouldn’t happen in class due to time constraints. When students share documents on google, you can post comments in the same way, and students can actually respond to your comments. In the past, a lab report might return to students with red marks and comments in the margins explaining where improvements could be made.
It also can make grading and commenting more engaging for students. While I don’t subscribe to going completely paperless, Google docs can reduce some of the paper issues described above. A handful of students give you handwritten (barely legible) papers even though the assignment required the assingment to be printed (typed.) Does this scene sound familiar? Another student hands you a flash drive and swears he did his homework but didn’t have access to a printer. One student says that she doesn’t have it because her internet wasn’t working. It is the beginning of class, a lab report is due and students setting their homework on your desk.
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