SeeSaw in the Classroom

What is SeeSaw?

Seesaw is a digital portfolio that allows students to reflect on their learning and track their academic progress. Parents have access to student work samples and online journal. They are also able to comment on their student's work. Seesaw is an appropriate program for the diverse groups of learners within the classroom.Student work can be documented through PDF, Word documents, photographs, PowerPoint Presentations, blogs, drawing pictures, creating videos, and much more. 

SeeSaw 21st Century Learning and Assessment

There are many ways that Seesaw lends itself to the 21st Century learning within the classroom. Seesaw allows students to go paperless. Students are able to store their assignments, photographs, videos, and presentation within their student profile. Seesaw would be an excellent program to use with Student Led Conferences. Student Led Conferences are lead by students. Parents come to conference with their students as they  present a collection of their course work. 

Seesaw requires students to use the following twenty-first century skills :

• student drives their own learning
• inquiry based
• collaborative assignments
• critical thinking &problem-solving
• communication skills
• apply academic concepts to real life

Seesaw from the teacher perspective is beneficial to the assessment process because it allows all student work to be collected in one location.  The student work that is uploaded to Seesaw can be used for both purposes of formative and summative assessment.  The teacher is able to view pretest  and post test to assess student learning. The teacher uses the feedback received to plan classroom instruction and student assignments.