Assessing language using technology
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This log is based on the article: "ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY"
Technology, nowadays is not one thing in our life, now is a fundamental way to support the way that we live. For bad or for good, life is changing according with trending situations. The way that humans become what their are (in society) is through education...
So, if technology plays an role like that one in life, and education is what is the key to develop and become, they have to be mixed. The article "ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY" pose, some different ways to develop curricular plans, for example:
-"The Language Construct in Relation to Computer-Based Delivery and Response Technologies"
This part, explains the process that technolgy pass in order to become a useful tool in a world that sometimes is to accustomed to old fashion strategies, for example, El salvador is a third world country that is delayed around 100 years on educational fields. We are the culture of paper, students from the public education, are used to work all the subjects though paper. Something that have to be accepted is that, is not bad to develop hand-write skills, students become useful to develop activities practically; but, nowadays the earth have a natural crisis. Paper is not a source that we have to use, so what can we do? The article responds to this questions with this part.
-"Computer-Based Authoring Options"
One benefit that is offered thanks to assessing technology, is that teachers can monitoring the classes with some programs that works online and help students to fulfilled expectations about learning processes, some online sources like: "Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio (Rapid Intake: http://www.rapidintake.com/index.htm)" works through "Stand alone" methodology, students built their own learning process.
-"Scoring, Feedback, and Reporting Systems"
Writing is an important skills that all L2 students most develop. technology is working on different online socurces that help teachers and students to practice writing and monitoring, givin feedback through systems like:"Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA: http://www.knowledge-technologies.com/prodIEA.shtml), E-rater and Criterion (http://criterion4.ets.org/cwe/), IntelliMetric R". this web pages provides to the teacher the facility to evaluate students work.
-"Validation Issues"
Sometimes it is hard to make the evaluation our the activities valid for our students, students demand important valid answers: "When I going to use this and that?" the real questions that teachers should pose is the following "How can I focus the scores and the tests to valid answers?"
Everything summarizes with meaningful tasks, whatever if their are teacher-students or the student by himself. Besides all the online activities can be monitoring by the teacher.
In conclusion, maybe technology is not the answer of everything, but is a intesting way to develop our students learning process.
This log is based on the article: "ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY"
Technology, nowadays is not one thing in our life, now is a fundamental way to support the way that we live. For bad or for good, life is changing according with trending situations. The way that humans become what their are (in society) is through education...
So, if technology plays an role like that one in life, and education is what is the key to develop and become, they have to be mixed. The article "ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY" pose, some different ways to develop curricular plans, for example:
-"The Language Construct in Relation to Computer-Based Delivery and Response Technologies"
This part, explains the process that technolgy pass in order to become a useful tool in a world that sometimes is to accustomed to old fashion strategies, for example, El salvador is a third world country that is delayed around 100 years on educational fields. We are the culture of paper, students from the public education, are used to work all the subjects though paper. Something that have to be accepted is that, is not bad to develop hand-write skills, students become useful to develop activities practically; but, nowadays the earth have a natural crisis. Paper is not a source that we have to use, so what can we do? The article responds to this questions with this part.-"Computer-Based Authoring Options"
One benefit that is offered thanks to assessing technology, is that teachers can monitoring the classes with some programs that works online and help students to fulfilled expectations about learning processes, some online sources like: "Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio (Rapid Intake: http://www.rapidintake.com/index.htm)" works through "Stand alone" methodology, students built their own learning process.
-"Scoring, Feedback, and Reporting Systems"
Writing is an important skills that all L2 students most develop. technology is working on different online socurces that help teachers and students to practice writing and monitoring, givin feedback through systems like:"Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA: http://www.knowledge-technologies.com/prodIEA.shtml), E-rater and Criterion (http://criterion4.ets.org/cwe/), IntelliMetric R". this web pages provides to the teacher the facility to evaluate students work.
-"Validation Issues"
Sometimes it is hard to make the evaluation our the activities valid for our students, students demand important valid answers: "When I going to use this and that?" the real questions that teachers should pose is the following "How can I focus the scores and the tests to valid answers?"
Everything summarizes with meaningful tasks, whatever if their are teacher-students or the student by himself. Besides all the online activities can be monitoring by the teacher.
In conclusion, maybe technology is not the answer of everything, but is a intesting way to develop our students learning process.
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