E-School News – Andrea Harmer
“Wee hear and read a lot about engaging students in technology facilitated learning challenges, but when it comes right down to it, how do we define student engagement, and how do we know what it looks and sounds like? More importantly, how do we know how engaged our students really are. Here is a simple definition and example of student engagement along with a short quiz to determine just how “engaged” your students really are in their task at hand. When student engagement was first discussed with regard to technology integration in Apple Computer’s Classroom of Tomorrow program, one of the primary measures was time on task (Ross, 1989). But as computer and internet time became more prevalent and sophisticated, so did the measures of student engagement.”(more)