Danijel Šic, OŠ Toneta Čufarja Maribor
Formative assessment is clearly effective. It is logical to use the same approach with developing digital skills. The article is about using Formative assessment of digital skills with OneNote Class Notebook tool in teaching computer science in 4th, 5th and 6th grade. Students were developing digital skills systematically. They learnt how to set goals and criteria. The new digital tool OneNote Class Notebook was used to share documents and to get feedback. The main purpose was to support students to take responsibility for their knowledge. The students learnt about a report. They set criteria for a high quality report. They also learnt how to give feedback to their classmates. Prior knowledge (use of OneNote) was tested. The students had to put pieces of a thank you note in correct order in student’s space in OneNote. We discussed two reports. The students proposed criteria for a high quality report and the teacher wrote them on the board. The teacher put the documents in the public section. The students wrote reports in their private section. The teacher reminds students to use the criteria to check their reports. We discussed three reports. Feedback was given according to the previously set criteria. The documents were published in the public section of the OneNote. The students copy their reports into the collaboration section and simultaneously give their collective feedback. We have used digital tools that enable cooperation, exchange of documents and give feedback. In this way the process of learning was not done in a usual way. 28 students were working each on their own computer. The teacher could overlook their work all the time and the students were able to access the material which was prepared by the teacher. The students could easily cooperate with other students within the joint space. The task was more demanding for the students of the 4th grade. The reports of the students of the 6th grade are not yet optimal, but it is obvious that they are able to produce their feedback in a more critical way. They are also able to propose improvements.
