Lesson 7 Evaluation of Technology Learning

Lesson 7

Evaluation of Technology Learning

          We already know the importance of digital instruction, now we should also discover what digital evaluation is and its importance in the teaching-and-learning process.

          Assessment needs to conform, not to the past century but the new literacy of the 21^st century. This is 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 learners can function effectively, productively and creatively in a new world. This evaluation 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.

          Moreover, in this lesson mass amateurization or the change in evaluation approach has been given emphasis. The personal and group creative activities in school should aim to bridge the gap between amateur creators of future outcomes and products in the real world.

          I experienced evaluation of technology learning not just in educational technology 1 and information technology (IT) subjects but also with other subjects that is much more productive in terms of lessons with the use or aid of technology. For example, in my major subjects like genetics, cell biology, microtechnique, microbiology, history and philosophy of science, plant morphology, ecology, science research, comparative anatomy of the vertebrates, etc. our power point presentations were evaluated as instructional media along with how we handle the class as future teachers.

          It is really important for teachers to adapt to new mindset for the evaluation of technology learning. It is because if their minds along with their entire principles of evaluation is still anchored on the traditional way they cannot fully function as an effective teacher anymore that is needed in this generation of digital learning that is governed by digital instruction and digital evaluation.

          With the knowledge of effective evaluation of technology learning, teachers can assess students’ outputs properly with prudence and justice. If they know how to evaluate technology learning for students they can also evaluate themselves and eventually they will learn to master their skill in evaluation and reflect this skill on ways to further improve their teachings which is essential for the students’ learnings and vice versa.