Quality of Content: The StAIR presents accuate concepts, models, and skills. It shared the content first before having students practice and applying, but I feel it could have explained the content more. It would be difficult for younger students to jump right into practice without learning about the concept first or seeing a model from the teacher.
The tool starts off with basic fractions and builds on the content. It gets into adding and multiplying fractions which we do not do in 3rd grade, but it would be a good tool to challenge some of my higher students who understand fractions quickly.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching-Learning Tool: This tool uses all the stages of the learning process (Explanation, demonstration, practice, applying). It does not directly state the learning objective, but focuses on introducing fractions. Students should be able to recognize, create, add, and multiply fractions by the end of the StAIR.
This tool would improve my teaching by providing students an introduction and practice before or during our fraction unit. I think students would learn better because they are manipulating the fractions and it is presented in more of a game format than traditional textbooks. I could have students complete this individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. The assessment is built in and provides immediate feedback for myself and the students.
Ease of Use: For the most part, my students could easily navigate through the program. There are clear links to the assessments, next activity, and the home page. I would like for it to have a better way of displaying questions students got wrong or right. When you click "submit," it shows the correct answers and your score, but you have to go back to see if your answer matches theirs for each question. Also, on the questions near the bottom, the answer is clearly displayed on the drop down menu so students can see the answer. The layout is simple and clear.
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