Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

Assessment needs to conform, not with the literacy of the past century but the new literacy of the 21^st century. This is the literacy that uses digital tools in preparing students to face a high-tech world. That’s why teachers must adopt a new mindset both for instruction and evaluation. Evaluation must be geared to assessment of essential knowledge and skills so that the learners can function effectively, productively and creatively in the new world. Today the change in evaluation approach is referred to as mass amateurazation, a term which implies a mass of each student outputs (Lucido, 2012).

Today, teachers must adopt to the modern era because remaining in the past will surely create conflict especially in evaluating the student’s performance. But today because it is already an OBE in which student's outputs are taken into consideration, teachers have already been using rubrics in evaluating the output of the students.

It is important that the evaluation/assessment method used by the teacher must be inclined with their objectives because how would a teacher will know if his/her students improve his/her outputs in video editing if he/she is using pencil and paper test instead of assessing their performance based on their output? That’s why teachers must be cautious in assessing the learning of the students.

Nowadays, because technology is of great importance in our day to day living, student’s involvement in technology is lengthening. Students now know how to adopt in the new era that we are currently living off to. One application is the learners already acquaint themselves in how to make, create and edit video presentations with the aid of technology and many more.

Reference:

Lucido, P. I. (2012). Educational Technology 2. LORIMAR PUBLISHING INC.

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