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Using the Smarter Balanced Digital Library Effectively

Learn how to purposefully search for resources in the Smarter Balanced Digital Library and enhance your professional practice through collaboration and targeted exploration. Gain the skills to conduct targeted searches, advocate for professional learning resources, and use collaboration tools effectively.

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Using the Smarter Balanced Digital Library Effectively

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  1. Using the Smarter Balanced Digital Library Effectively

  2. Learning Goals Participants understand • the importance of purposeful, targeted searches; • how the “Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library” activity can guide a progressive exploration of the resources; • how favorites, resource rating, and forums can enhance use of the Digital Library; • the tools and resources that guide teams at the local educational agency (LEA) to use the Digital Library more effectively.

  3. Success Criteria Participants can • use Digital Library tools and search functions to conduct targeted searches for resources that meet specific criteria; • advocate for the use of professional learning resources to guide a progressive exploration of the Digital Library that models formative assessment practices; • describe how Digital Library collaboration tools can be used to improve professional practice and promote collaboration; • plan to use Digital Library search resources with teams at their LEA or school.

  4. Shout Out • Formative Assessment and the Smarter Balanced Digital Library 101 • Exploring the Smarter Balanced Digital Library Playlists

  5. Smarter Balanced Assessment System • Common Core State Standards specify K–12 expectations for college and career readiness • Teachers and schools have information and tools they need to improve teaching and learning • Summative: College and career readiness assessments for accountability • Digital Library: Tools and resources to support formative assessment process • Interim: Flexible and open assessments used for actionable feedback • All students leave high school ready for college and career

  6. Levels of Assessment Grain Size of Standards Assessed Immediacy of Actionable Information

  7. Smarter Balanced Digital Library • Provides an online collection of high-quality instructional and professional learning resources contributed by educators for educators. • Resources are aligned with the Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced assessment targets, and help educators implement the formative assessment process to improve teaching and learning.

  8. Using the Digital Library With Purpose • Meaningful use of the Digital Library requires a clear purpose, time, and targeted effort. • New tools and features are available to support effective and purposeful use of the Digital Library and its resources.

  9. Think and Talk How are educators in your LEA or school currently using the Digital Library? • In what contexts? (Individually? In Professional Learning Communities [PLCs] or other teacher teams? During professional development sessions?) • For what type(s) of resources? (Playlists? Lesson or unit plans? Formative assessment tools or strategies? Videos? Professional Learning materials?) • For what purposes? (Support for instruction based on assessment results? Ideas to embed formative assessment in instruction? Instructional strategies for specific common core standards? Individual or group professional learning?)

  10. Digital Library Self-Registration Is Available http://www.caaspp.org/rsc/pdfs/CAASPP.dl-self-registration.2016-17.pdf

  11. Newer Digital Library Features

  12. Digital Library Landing Page

  13. Digital Library Resource Page

  14. Conducting Purposeful Searches • One key to effective use of the Digital Library is the ability to structure purposeful searches that “hone in” on specific resources tied to identified needs. • What do I want to teach, reteach, or learn? • What type of resource might best support that teaching or learning? • What filters would best narrow my search? • What other Digital Library features might help me find a good resource to meet my purpose?

  15. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/diglib.asp

  16. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Introduction • Learning Goals and Success Criteria • Sample uses for different professional learning contexts

  17. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Module One • Customizable templates to guide educators in a purposeful “dig” into the Digital Library to locate a resource that meets specific criteria • Guidance to promote participants in eliciting, interpreting, and acting on evidence of learning

  18. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Module Two • Facilitator directions • Template to promote reflection on the Digital Library, its features, and its implications on professional practice

  19. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Activity • With a partner, review the six Module One Task Templates. • Select one Module One Task Template to use for an Archaeological Search into the Digital Library.

  20. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Activity (cont.) • Log in to the Digital Library. • Select the appropriate Resource Type based on your purpose. • Select and apply filters, search terms, or other tools to narrow the list of resources based on your purpose. • Identify one or two resources that address your purpose. • Elicit and Interpret Evidence: Summarize what you found to meet the intended learning outcome. • Act on Evidence: Identify one step that you or an educator in your school might take to use or share the resource.

  21. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Reflection Use the Module Two Task Template to reflect on your Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library experience: • Which search tools, filters, and/or functions might be most useful or applicable for future searches? • How could the Favorites feature – specifically the ability to create Personal Collections – support more purposeful and ongoing use of the Digital Library? • What strategies could encourage educators to review and rate resources that they use? • When might you, or your educators, use forums?

  22. Digging into the Smarter Balanced Digital Library: Sharing • How did your experience with the “Digging into the Digital Library” module support you in searching for and finding resources in the Digital Library? • How could you use this resource for professional learning in your local context?

  23. Implementation and Planning

  24. Thank You!Posted by the California Department of Education | February 2018

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