Submitted by Beth Hathaway (not verified) on November 1, 2007 - 08:26.
Grant Wiggins and Barbara Means bring up helpful points about technology providing an important tool in terms of organizing and analyzing test data and providing new and exciting ways for the students to experience assessment and for the teacher to examine it. My question within the realm of assessment technology is, is there any danger in making so many aspects of school entertaining? I know we are only talking about assessment here but it seems like there is a general push toward making school and learning fun, no matter what the context. Are there important skills being lost in the process? I wonder sometimes if the experience of quietly reading a physical book and journaling or essay-writing without any animated, interactive, colorful technology is becoming a lost art. But, maybe it never was an art. I worry that some of the entertaining factors of assessment or instruction that are entering the field lack needed preparation for the mundane parts of the real world.
Grant Wiggins and Barbara
Submitted by Beth Hathaway (not verified) on November 1, 2007 - 08:26.
Grant Wiggins and Barbara Means bring up helpful points about technology providing an important tool in terms of organizing and analyzing test data and providing new and exciting ways for the students to experience assessment and for the teacher to examine it. My question within the realm of assessment technology is, is there any danger in making so many aspects of school entertaining? I know we are only talking about assessment here but it seems like there is a general push toward making school and learning fun, no matter what the context. Are there important skills being lost in the process? I wonder sometimes if the experience of quietly reading a physical book and journaling or essay-writing without any animated, interactive, colorful technology is becoming a lost art. But, maybe it never was an art. I worry that some of the entertaining factors of assessment or instruction that are entering the field lack needed preparation for the mundane parts of the real world.