From Pen and Paper Exams to Immediate Digital Assessment:
One new emerging technology that is changing the way educators assess student understanding is the digital assessment. Whether the educator chooses to use purchased soft and hardware such as a set of classroom clickers or he/she decides to use a free internet program that works with student’s cell phones and text messaging such as polleverywhere.com the digital assessment provides instant feedback of student understanding. Results are projected immediately for the instructor to gauge the level of comprehension of their students. Even though the possibilities are wonderful with this technology there are still a few issues that they must overcome. The problems with classroom clickers are that they are still too expensive to let each individual teacher have a set, so they must be shared. However site limits per schools only allow so many computers to have the software downloaded to them limiting the access to the teachers who want to use the technology. For the cell phone digital assessment programs the problem lies with not every student having a cell phone and those that do don’t always have free text messaging making this activity have the potential for expensive costs.
What could improve this technology would be a free network for students to be able to send texts to for free and have unlimited site licenses for schools that have purchansed the technologies.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://www.classroomclickers.com/
One new emerging technology that is changing the way educators assess student understanding is the digital assessment. Whether the educator chooses to use purchased soft and hardware such as a set of classroom clickers or he/she decides to use a free internet program that works with student’s cell phones and text messaging such as polleverywhere.com the digital assessment provides instant feedback of student understanding. Results are projected immediately for the instructor to gauge the level of comprehension of their students. Even though the possibilities are wonderful with this technology there are still a few issues that they must overcome. The problems with classroom clickers are that they are still too expensive to let each individual teacher have a set, so they must be shared. However site limits per schools only allow so many computers to have the software downloaded to them limiting the access to the teachers who want to use the technology. For the cell phone digital assessment programs the problem lies with not every student having a cell phone and those that do don’t always have free text messaging making this activity have the potential for expensive costs.
What could improve this technology would be a free network for students to be able to send texts to for free and have unlimited site licenses for schools that have purchansed the technologies.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://www.classroomclickers.com/
