Evaluation of Technology in Learning
- 1. LESSON 7 Evaluation of Technology in Learning
- 2. The standard of student evaluation of learning must change. This is justified by the fact that not only has the new generation changed into digital learners, but the traditional world has metamorphosed into a digital world. As effort exerted to go digital in instruction, we also need to go digital in learning in assessment.
- 3. Assessment needs to conform, not with the literacy of the past century but the new literacy of the 21st century. This is the literacy that uses digital tools in preparing students to face a high-tech world.
- 4. The comparison is made with the Swiss watch-makers which failed to adapt to digital watch-making. The Swiss watch lost its prime position in less than two years of neglect to the need to go digital.
- 5. Teachers must adopt to the new mindset both for instruction and evaluation. Evaluation must be geared to assessment of essential knowledge and skills so that learners can function effectively, productively and creatively in a new world.
- 6. It must use evaluative tools that measure the new basic skills of the 21st century digital culture, namely: solution fluency, information fluency, collaboration fluency, creative fluency, media fluency and digital citizenship.
- 7. The six fluencies reflect process skills. In reading for example, single text reading becomes less important compared with the empowerment process of being imbibed by varied informative, educational and recreational literature – textual, audiovisual, digital.
- 8. Apart from reading, learners are asked to engage in the process of writing reports, essays, articles, stories, PowerPoint presentations, video scripts, drama skits, etc. The standard paper tests will improve inadequate in assessing new learning.
- 9. As product-outcome learning changes from verbal-textual to digital expressions (research- based outputs evaluation must also change.
- 10. Mass Amateurization Today the change in evaluation approach is referred to as mass amateurization, a term which implies a mass reach of student outputs. The personal and group creative activities in school should aim at bridging the gap between amateur creators of outputs to professional creators of future outcomes and products in real world.
- 11. This will entail inculcating adeptness among students over media along publishing, visual creation, audio-video recording, Internet web site postings, and multimedia productions.
- 12. The process does not entail the end of traditional report and essay writing, but the writing process will now have to assume the process of idea conception, planning, layout and graphics designing, editing and publishing.
- 13. The use of desktop publishing software can make writing more easier as well as more exciting for learners. The Internet also offers avenues for publishing creative outputs and this are web sites, blogs, wikis, podcasts and videos. Relevance and engagement shall be carried both in the learning process, as well as in the evaluation schemes of new digital expressions in learning.
- 14. Create a one page newsletter using Microsoft Publisher Scores Content 30% Lead Story (10%) News (10%) Features (10%) Presentation 30% Layout (10%) Use of font (10%) Color Scheme (10%) Overall Impression 40% Relevance (10%) Significance (10%) Artistry (10%) Attractive Impression (10%)