Lesson 7: Evaluation of Technology Learning

The standard student evaluation of learning must change. This justified by the fact that not only has the new generation changed into digital learners, but the traditional world has metamorphosed into a digital world. As efforts are exerted to go digital in instruction, we need also to go digital learning assessment. Assessment need to conform, not with the literacy of the past century but the new literacy of the 21st century. This is a literacy that uses digital tools in preparing students to face a high-tech world.  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.

When Compared on how student evaluation is done, the traditional and new generation have difference on such issue. As we face the new challenges brought by digital world, the standard student evaluation of learning must change. We need more experienced on how to evaluate technology learning because this will help alot in fairness and appropriateness of assessment technique. In addition, educators must truly adopt a new mindset both for instruction and evaluation. There is truly a significant need for evaluation to be use as evaluative tools that measure the basic skills of the 21st century digital culture, namely: solution, information, collaboration, creative, media and digital ethics. Therefore, educators should stick to modernized and standardized ways of evaluation techniques to successfully cater the needs of digital learners when it comes to evaluation purposes.

In reflection to the lesson, 21st century evolves from being nothing to something. It is truly amazing that today we are developing the effective and efficient way of evaluating through the use of evaluative tools. As future educators, we should put in our mind that as time goes by, everything will change and we have to adapt ourselves from these changes because this could help us to develop and achieve a new mindset of instructing and evaluating.

As teacher, we want to be flexible, analytical and creative in our own way of teaching in teaching process. Teachers facilitate and evaluate students with the use of technology learning. For attaining the goals of teacher and students teaching process, the evaluation of technology learning helps us to know the use of computer-based technologies as an integral support to higher learning process. In our modern world of teaching, digital technologies is very important tool especially in educational technology subject. We use technology not only for fun but also for academic purposes. Now a day, many efficient teachers use the modern technologies in computing grades, power point presentation with the help of educational media. The learning from verbal-textual text to digital world is become complex in the old generation compare to the new generation who equip in the use of modern technology. Although some teacher in rural areas of school. The use of digital in teaching is fewer. Above them all the most important thing in evaluation of technology learning is the proper way of usage of educational media and to learn to use and evaluate the outcomes.