In the MoteCon 2022 session titled "Peer Assessing Spoken Work in Languages", Daren White explored how educators can leverage Mote to enhance both peer and teacher assessments in language classes. With over two decades of teaching experience, Daren offered insights into making assessments more manageable and effective using voice recording technology.
• Using Mote can simplify the process of peer and teacher assessments by allowing recordings of student responses.
• Mote enables students to listen to and evaluate their own spoken language work.
• The tool facilitates anonymous and unbiased peer feedback through shared recordings.
• Mote can be integrated with Google Forms and Google Sheets for seamless assessment management.
• Educators can use Mote to moderate assessments across departments and ensure consistent feedback quality.
Live assessments in the classroom, especially in language instruction, can be fraught with challenges. As Daren White pointed out, the cognitive load on teachers is significant, making it difficult to provide real-time feedback to each student. Additionally, classroom distractions can cause students to alter their responses when asked to repeat them, which affects the reliability of assessments.
Recording student responses using Mote offers a way to circumvent these challenges. Teachers can listen to these recordings at their convenience, ensuring that feedback is accurate and thoughtful. It also allows students to hear themselves, providing a valuable opportunity for self-assessment and reflection.
Peer assessment in language learning can be tricky, as students might struggle to evaluate language they do not fully understand. Mote provides a platform where students can play back recordings multiple times, aiding comprehension and the assessment process.
Another advantage of using Mote is the capability to share recordings with colleagues for cross-department moderation. This ensures that assessments are fair and consistent, as feedback can be provided by various educators, potentially enhancing the quality of the evaluation process.
Integrating Mote with Google Forms and Google Sheets is straightforward, as Daren demonstrated. By setting up a Google Form to collect verbal responses, educators can easily manage these recordings within Google Sheets, where they can be accessed and reviewed by teachers and peers alike.
1. Create a Google Form to gather verbal responses from students.
2. Use Mote to record and attach voice notes to student submissions.
3. Collect these responses in a Google Sheet for easy access and distribution.
4. Share the Google Sheet with peers or colleagues for feedback and moderation.
Daren White is a seasoned language teacher with over 23 years of experience. His expertise in educational technology and language instruction offers valuable insights into using tools like Mote to enhance classroom assessments.
In this session Daren shares how to use Mote to set verbal questions and retrieve verbal answers from students. We'll then look at using Mote in sheets to provide peer feedback.
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