Communication tools that promote proficiency-based education evaluated with team created rubric for EDU568.

Show Me

This free app allows students to show their work while explaining and recording their voice.

Engagement: 3

Students use the app when given specific tasks to show work and record their thinking. 

Accessibility/Relevance: 2

This app is one tool that can be used to show and record understanding of given tasks. 

Capabilities/Customization: 3

There are a variety of options to create, build, and model thinking.  With an upgrade this app has the potential to be interactive which would then rate a 4 on the rubric.

Safety: 4

This app does not require a User Id or Login password to use although it does have the capability to create an account and send to Dropbox or Google Drive.

Thinking Skills: 2-4

Show Me starts as a blank slate that can be used to demonstrate thinking skills to the degree of creating and analyzing.   The level of higher order thinking depends on the user. 

Elementary Evaluation Tool

	1	2	3	4	Notes:
Qualities:
Student Engagement	Avoids app	Uses app but does not make connections to prior learning.	Uses app when directed.	Highly Motivated to use the app.
Accessibility/ Relevance	Not able to use for multiple purposes	Limited availability to use across contents	Purposeful and appropriate across content areas	Engaging across all content areas
Capabilities/ Customization	No access to camera, video, microphone and other libraries.	Limited use of settings to meet student’s need.	Flexible settings to models strategies, ability to create, structure, or build	Interactive and the ability to change content settings to model strategies and ability to create and build.
Safety	No private access availability	Class Login with personal password	Individual Log in & password.	Individual Log in & password with data available within class roster
Thinking Skills	Limited use of lower order thinking skills.	Mostly lower order thinking skills to understand and remember.	Use of higher order thinking skills including evaluating, analyzing and applying.	Use of higher order thinking skills including creating, evaluating and analyzing.