Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

Content

            
              The standard 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. Assessment needs to conform, not with the literacy of the past century but the new literacy of the 21^st century. This is a literacy that uses digital tools in preparing students to a high-tech world.

            Evaluation must be geared to assessment of essential knowledge and skills so that learners can function effectively, productively and creatively in a new world. It must use evaluative tools that measure the new basic skills of the 21^st century digital culture, namely: solution fluency, information fluency, collaboration fluency, creative fluency, media fluency and digital citizenship.

Mass Amateurization

            This refers to the change of evaluation approach. A term which implies a mass reach of students outputs. The personal and group creative activities in school should aim at bridging the gap between amateur creatures of outputs to professional creatures for future outcomes and products in the real world. This will entail inculcating adeptness among students over media along publishing, visual creation, audio-video recording, Internet web site posting, and multimedia productions. 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 graphic designing, editing proofreading and publishing. Relevance and engagement shall be carried both in the learning process, as well as in the evaluation schemes of new digital expressions in learning.

Experience

           
        Out teacher in different subjects adopt these changes in evaluation but depending on the topic discussed. Some of them let us to come up with a good role playing in the connection to a real life situation. Some of them is PowerPoint presentation, research paper, photo editing, short filming, audio-video recording and site posting. They also have these set of criteria on evaluating the output. This is called the rubric.

Reflection

           
         Teacher nowadays shift their evaluation style from standard paper test to outcome base evaluation. That is to monitor if the students really learn. Learning from various activities presented through the aid of technology is quite hard to evaluate or monitor through standard paper test. We can only say or conclude if the students really learn through their good outcome. Some students are just good in reading and memorizing but don’t have enough skills in application. Today’s 21^st century, students must not be like that, the teacher must work for it since school is their training ground. Learning with experience is fun, therefore, teacher must be flexible in terms of strategy on evaluating students outputs.

Application

            As future educator, I should set a type of evaluation which is in line to the activity presented. As a science teacher, I will make sure that my activity is more on application so that students could relate it to real life situation. Some activity would be investigatory project, role playing, experimenting, etc. That is to monitor the level of their learning. Through this, I will be able to help them be prepared to face future event of their lives.