Seesaw to Help Teachers for the Class Management

Seesaw is a platform for student engagement. Seesaw is one of an electronic porfolio (e-portfolio) that is a purposeful collection of sample student work, demonstrations, and artifacts that showcase student's learning progression, achievement, and evidence of what students can do. In this platform teachers can empower students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate. Seesaw provides many activities that come from another teacher around the world and also this platform provide a tool for teacher to make their own activities. Seesaw can be accessed on mobile or tab device. Seesaw come to solve modern problem where not only teachers that are monitoring students activity in school but also teachers can invite parents to monitoring their children portfolio as well. So the parents have an access to monitoring what their kids make in the class and what have they learn that day.

Why Seesaw? By using Seesaw teachers can use it give activities not only for language course but this platform provides many activities for different course such as art, mathematic, etc. This platform can also be used for different level of education from Pre-Kindergarten grade to 12th grade adapted to the class that each teacher has. Rapid technological development forces teachers to be able to apply classroom teaching using technology. On the other hand the current generation is more closely related to technology in their daily activities. Seesaw opens and provides an easy way for teachers to use e-portfolios. The teacher can ask the school to provide tabs in the class that are taught or ask students to bring their own mobile phones that we know that lately almost every parent gives mobile technology to their children at a young age. By giving learning to use technology that they use closely every day can attract their attention in activities in the classroom, provide comfortable learning conditions and students can confidently give and ask questions in every activity. For example, teacher give make speaking activity in the classroom, Seesaw provide tool to record video on their task to reord their speaking, teacher and parents can see it also it can be shared to other students in the class to jointly provide input and correction.

How to use the Seesaw? First, make an account using your email. Then, choose whether you are teachers or students. Next, if you are a teacher create your own class and set what grade you teaching and what name of the class. After that, invite all your students to your class. To give students activity or assessment, you can click the add button and choose the activity according to teacher learning needs or teacher can create their own activity that helped by Seesaw tools. Activities such as essays and papers (text-based), blog, multimedia (recordings of demonstrations, interviews, presentations, etc.), and also drawing. For more tutorial visit this link: Click Here!

By:

Sandri Senjaya

Fahmi Alvin Ibrahim

Rizki Nurul Arsy

Widyasih Ghinayya Wiriani Zahra