Lesson 7 - Evaluation of Technology Learning

This lesson entails about how to determine if the technology is appropriate and enhances the teaching and learning process. Evaluation is used in Ed Tech and its means considering the merits of the material used. Its strength and weaknesses as a tool for learning. It emphasizes the role of digital instructions in the modern times especially in evaluating student outputs. The student standard evaluation of learning must change. As efforts are exerted to go digital in instruction, we need to also go digital in learning. Today, students are expected to be not only cognitive, but also flexible, analytical, and creative. Students must have the six important fluencies that reflect process skills.

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. It must use evaluative tools that measures the new basic skills of the 21st century digital culture, namely solution fluency, information fluency, collaboration fluency, media fluency, creativity fluency and digital citizenship.

Mass amateurization

The change of evaluation approach, from the amateur creator of outputs to professional creator of outcomes and products. It gives an impression to the teachers and learners that high technologies are very essential for the learning and evaluating process.