With the increases in Technology today teachers are losing control of the classroom. Looking around the room in a digital classroom a teacher sees all of their students focused on screens but how many of them are actually doing the right thing? Too often we walk towards a learner to check and see them change screens or tilt their screens down in the hopes that they will not be caught. Hapara (and Google Classroom) give teachers back their control and create a more monitored environment as well as giving teachers an well organised platform to share activities and check the work of learners.
Managing What Learners are Doing
Hapara offers teachers live views of what their learners are looking at on their own screens and any other tabs they have open. Additionally they allow teachers to close tabs, open tabs, send messages and email the learner meaning there is the ability to constantly monitor the students.
Sharing Tasks with Learners and Accessing their Work for Marking
Hapara allows teachers to share documents from their own drive as templates for the learners. They can share with a whole class or a small group and the templates go into the individual's folders where they have their own copy to work on. Additionally teachers can access the learner's drives and see what work they have been doing meaning they can mark the work in their own time and not trawl through hundreds of emails with learners sharing their work.
Personal Experience
I have in my training had some experience with Hapara. The programme allowed me to share templates with learners and monitor their learning while being somewhere else in the classroom. One particular learner had a tendency to play online games rather than do work and he always placed himself somewhere in the room where he was less likely to be spotted. During one lesson I not only caught him playing the game on Hapara but I closed the tab three times during the learning before he realised there was an outside influence. Although this sounds harsh it meant that I was aware of what was going on as I also caught learners emailing and chatting through messenger and was able to stop this from reoccurring. This is definitely a tool I would try again although I am hoping that there will be a way for a teacher to delete all documents named the same at some point in the future as if there is a mistake teachers have to currently delete the documents one at a time.
It's time for teachers to take back control of the classroom and make the most of the technologies that are available to them that will make their life easier as well as engage all learners.
Managing What Learners are Doing
Sharing Tasks with Learners and Accessing their Work for Marking
Personal Experience
I have in my training had some experience with Hapara. The programme allowed me to share templates with learners and monitor their learning while being somewhere else in the classroom. One particular learner had a tendency to play online games rather than do work and he always placed himself somewhere in the room where he was less likely to be spotted. During one lesson I not only caught him playing the game on Hapara but I closed the tab three times during the learning before he realised there was an outside influence. Although this sounds harsh it meant that I was aware of what was going on as I also caught learners emailing and chatting through messenger and was able to stop this from reoccurring. This is definitely a tool I would try again although I am hoping that there will be a way for a teacher to delete all documents named the same at some point in the future as if there is a mistake teachers have to currently delete the documents one at a time.
It's time for teachers to take back control of the classroom and make the most of the technologies that are available to them that will make their life easier as well as engage all learners.
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