Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

This lesson talks about change of standard student’s evaluation. Evaluative are the tools for essential in teaching – learning process. 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; the solution fluency, information fluency, collaboration fluency, creative fluency media fluency and digital citizenship. This involvement of digital instructional materials and digital learners into digital world are also part of the lesson. The lesson also gives an emphasis about the effectiveness of assessment for the learners. The content is about the evaluative tools for 21st century. This lesson focuses on how future educators developed the effective and efficient way of teaching using appropriate and updated evaluation tools. The teachers must adopt a new mindset of instructing and evaluating the learners.  

The lesson also reviews the six basic digital skills that are connected to the achievement of the highly competent way of evaluating. Apart from discussing the evaluation process for the 21st century, the lesson also defines the mass amateurization.

Mass amateurization 

is 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. In this lesson, it emphasizes the role of digital instructions in the modern times especially in evaluating student outputs. 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.