Digital assignments and assessments can be keys to student success by being relevant, valuable, and difficult to cheat on while incorporating rich media and requiring higher-order thinking. Educators should have students interact dynamically with content using engaging tools and challenge their approach to learning. Assignments should allow students to demonstrate learning through collaboration and the use of tools like videos, podcasts, and infographics. Assessments can require deeper understanding when digital and take various forms beyond writing to show mastery in original works. Educators should start by reviewing current assessments and reworking questions to focus on desired learning outcomes while avoiding cheating.

1. Digital Assignments and Assessments keys to success.

2. Relevant and Valuable Difficult to cheat Rich in media Creative Require high level thinking skills

3. Digital Assignments

4. Don't just throw content online and build the community around it. Make your students interact with content in dynamic ways using rich and engaging tools. Digital assignments challenge your approach to student achievement, and afford you the opportunity to rethink what you want your students to learn.

5. Digital Assignment Success Decide 'what you want your students to demonstrate'. Reshape assignments to allow students to demonstrate learning and achievement. Encourage collaboration when appropriate.

6. Assignment Success - the technology Allow for use of Web 2.0 tools - not just writing. Teach and model appropriate use of tools. Teach students about compatibility and open source. not all file formats are universal stick with formats like PDF, RTF, jpg, and mpg.

7. Don't "reinvent the wheel". There are plenty of great tools out there to use...you don't always need to develop your own.

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9. Assessments - going digital. Great opportunity to require deeper understanding. Afford you the opportunity to reshape assessments. Require appropriate use of tools. Challenge educators to be dilligent in evaluating student work for copyright and plagiarism.

10. Assessments - a shift... Creates the chance to change the locus. paper and pen are not required rich media can be used web 2.0 tools can show mastery differently than writing can take any form: video/screencast audio/podcast infographics website

11. Assessments - where to start? Use existing assessments as a base Look at the types of questions, as they connect to 'what you want your students to demonstrate' Change, combine, eliminate questions that don't relate to the desired end Rewrite questions to avoid cheating and sharing Restructure assessments to show mastery learning Require originality, citations, and creativity