Lessons Learned

Michael Segedy, a teacher and IT Coordinator at TAS, recently shared an interesting way he could see tablets and inking do double duty for him and his IB students. Michael works to prepare his students for IB exams by giving them timed writing assignments in class. The students use paper and pens just as they will on the exam. As Michael has a tablet and is used to receiving student work digitally, he  supports his students’ writing by using the inking tools to make comments and ask questions in the students’ Word docs as his students go through the editing process.

The problem with helping his students think about and improve their writing from the timed sessions is that the work isn’t digital. He currently has the students type their work up in Word to move to the digital editing process. Michael shares that if his students had tablets that they could handwrite their timed writings on the tablets and then simply turn them into text using the provided software. The students get practice at handwriting in real testing situations and they easily can share their work with their teacher to further develop the thinking and writing- a great two for one technique.