Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

• Evaluation is used in Educational Technology and its meaning considering the merits of the material used. It entails about how to determine if the technology is appropriate and enhances the teaching and learning process.

• Its strength and weakness as a tool for learning.

• Teachers must adopt a new mindset both for instruction and evaluation.

• The student standard evaluation of learning must change.

• Today, students are expected to be not only cognitive, but also flexible, analytical and creative.

• Students must have six important fluencies that reflect process skills.

Mass Amateurization-  refers to the capabilities that new forms of media have given to non- professionals and the ways in which those non-professionals have applied those capabilities to solve that compete with the solutions offered by larger, professional institutions.

• The personal and group creative activities in school aim at bridging the gap between amateur creators of outputs to professional creators of future outcomes and products in the real world.

• The process does not entail the end of traditional report and essay writing.

• The Internet also offers avenues for publishing creative outputs and these are websites, blogs, wikis, podcasts and videos.

• Relevance and engagement shall be carried both in the learning.