Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

Rosalie G. Alegarbes   BSEd General Science4    MW 3:00-5:00pm

Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

Content

The standard student evaluation of learning must change. Assessment needs to conform, not to the literacy of the past century but the new literacy of the 21^st century. This literacy uses digital tools in preparing the students to face high-tech world. So, teachers must adopt to the new mindset of both instruction and evaluation. Evaluation must be geared to assessment of essential knowledge and skills (as discussed in lesson 6) so that learners can function effectively, productively and creatively in the new world. So, the mass amateurization changes the evaluation approach. The term implies the mass reach of students’ outputs. This will entail inculcating adeptness among students over media along publishing, visual creation, audio-video recording, internet website postings and multimedia productions.

Experience

As the advancement to digital instruction, we can observe there is also the improvement to the evaluation of the students learning. Since students are now called as digital learners, assessment on their learnings conform in their ways of learning too. That is why teachers are using technology to cater the new trend in the teaching and learning process. Since teachers give emphasis on these 6 process skills, evaluation must jibe on how to develop these skills. Nowadays, we can see that are giving activities were the result is a tangible outputs. As what we have experienced, we were given learning experiences like role playing, demonstrating, inventing, making and etc. Where there is an application on what was learned. Most of the time, evaluating the learnings has an application of technology.

Reflection

Since we are now on the digital world and the focus of each school not just here in the Philippines but also around the world is to produce graduates who are competent, responsible and knowledgeable; assessing students through paper and pencil test is not enough. I am not saying that this kind of assessment is not effective; past generations have been using this kind of assessment but still they did produced competent individuals. But since we are more advance today, it is a must for the school and for the teachers as well to adopt to the advancement because if they will not.... they will left behind. Students will then tend to lose their interest in learning. That is why assessment must change and must improve.

Application

Evaluation is one of the important steps in the teaching and learning process. A teacher cannot do evaluation without assessing the students of course. As a future teacher, I must adopt to the new trend of evaluating my students. Since measuring the student’s learning through standardized paper and pencil test is inadequate, I must also use evaluation which will assess and help develop their basic process skills. For an instance, I cannot assess the skills in transferring the bacteria aseptically by my students through letting them take a multiple exam test or an essay test; so I must let them perform it.

Through the use and appropriate application of technology wherein students can create, solve, evaluate their ideas and etc., my ways of evaluating my students has improved. All the more, the learning activities given with the aid of technology will help them function effectively in the future. In addition, outputs of the students can be evaluated through the use of rubrics-- where set of criteria are there. So that evaluating will be objective, and also students will know what to do have a good grade because they already know what are the criteria.