Monday, June 13, 2016

Comment on Google presentation and CCSS

Google presentations contribute a lot to the assessment of communication skills in the Common Core State Standards. When students use this collaborative tool to present information to classmates and teachers, they are presenting an extensive set of skills such as listening carefully to ideas; integrating information from visual, oral or media sources; evaluating information; express themselves explicitly to others,and adapting speech to context and task etc.

Google presentations meet the requirement of CCSS by allowing collaborative work. Collaboration is the distinct feature of Google Slides. The ability to easily share and simultaneously edit a Google Drive document is the platform's biggest selling point. The fact that everyone will always be on the same version of Slides, and that all the collaborators will have a consistent experience while editing and commenting, is a huge positive for Google’s apps.


Presenting about knowledge and concepts learned is one of the best learning strategies. Google presentations provide opportunities for students to research content, summarize the information, display data in visual forms and create presentations with images and video. Students will be able to learn how to organize information effectively and conduct a speech seamlessly. From the tables listed on Graham’s book chapter 5, we can see that Google presentations can meet the speaking, listening, reading and writing standards in CCSS for various k-12 subjects.

1 comment:

  1. Well, partial credit here. Since you merely reference the Tables without a discussion of how the material in those tables works in Presentations, it is not particularly clear what you have in mind. (I am guessing you mean the tables on pages 72 and 73, although you did not say.)

    Further, since you are referencing those tables, the tables themselves do not reference collaborative work, although the text around them discusses it.

    Basically, I don't think he you have made your case... So, not full credit just yet.

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