Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

Evaluation of Technology Learning

                The students today were not only cognitively inclined, they were also flexible, analytical and creative. We had been discussing on the changing of instruction strategies from traditional instruction to a digital instruction and same is true with the assessment and evaluation. This is by the fact that not only did the traditional learners evolved into digital learners but as well as our society or the world has metamorphosed from traditional to a modernized or digital world.

Digital learning assessment should assess the essential knowledge and skills which would definitely require the use of digital evaluative tools that measure the new basic skills, to be able to prepare the students to function creatively, effectively and productively in a new world.

The six fluencies discussed in Lesson 6 reflect process skills and as students engage in problem-solving process, the assessment should also focus on the 4 Ds which empower students to solve problems using higher level theoretical and practical thinking. The product outcome learning shifted from verbal-textual to digital expression such as audio, video, PowerPoint, multimedia, etc.

The so called “mass amateurization” has been referred to the change in evaluation approach in a mass reach of students’ outputs. The personal and group activities should aim at bridging the gap between the amateur creators of outputs to professional creators of outputs and products in the real world. I should entail inculcating adeptness in publishing, visual creation, audio-video recording, internet website postings and multimedia productions. The writing process will have to assume the idea conception, planning, layout and graphics designing, editing, proofreading and publishing. Using the desktop publishing software will make the writing process easier and exciting for learners. We can also publish our outputs on internet through web sites, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and videos.

Since high school up to the present  I had undergone computer classes which requires computer based outputs such as video and photo editing, blog writing, etc. these outputs requires skills, creativity and enthusiasm to finish the outputs. My output were also based on the given set of criteria as a guide to develop the outputs.

As I reflect, the shift to the digital instruction and digital learning assessment is justified by the fact that the traditional world has metamorphosed to digital world. The assessment needs to conform to the new literacy of the 21^st century and not to the literacy of the past to prepare the students to face a high-tech world.

As an application, being a future educator, we should adopt a new mindset in instruction and evaluation.