Large-scale testing of educational outcomes benefits already from technological applications that address logistics such as development, administration, and scoring of tests, as well as reporting of results. Innovative applications of technology also provide rich, authentic tasks that challenge the sorts of integrated knowledge, critical thinking, and problem solving seldom well addressed in paper-based tests. Such tasks can be used on both large-scale and classroom-based assessments. Balanced assessment systems can be developed that integrate curriculum-embedded, benchmark, and summative assessments across classroom, district, state, national, and international levels. We discuss here the potential of technology to launch a new era of integrated, learning-centered assessment systems.
From the site: "Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-term preservation..."
New MacArthur report on teens and new media. There's a two page
summary of the findings of the three year research project into kids'
informal learning with digital media, a white paper, and the complete
text of the forthcoming book, Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking
Out: Living and Learning with New Media.
Despite an endless succession of startups claiming to ābeatā Google and Yahoo, thereās not, strictly speaking, any need to do so. For the average consumer search has been solved, with most searches ending satisfactorily. DeepDyve wants to tap another group of users: Students, researchers and other āinformation workersā who need to quickly find expert-level data.
Companies may need/want to cut back on innovation/research during
tough economic times, but they should use a scalpel rather than a hatchet.
Proposal to make primary source documents used by journalists available online for the public to search. Interesting points in the comments about copyright issues and the difference between primary and mediated information.
The use of search engines as primary conduits for research has changed the ways that people identify and process information. This article describes the ways that digital search technologies are transforming information literacy.
"As the internet replaces library databases as students' primary research option, a new discussion is emerging in academic circles: Is the vast amount of information at students' fingertips changing the way they gather and process information for the better--or for worse?"
This research study examines whether students who do a lot of social networking are using 21st century skills
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Large-scale testing of educational outcomes benefits already from technological applications that address logistics such as development, administration, and scoring of tests, as well as reporting of results. Innovative applications of technology also provide rich, authentic tasks that challenge the sorts of integrated knowledge, critical thinking, and problem solving seldom well addressed in paper-based tests. Such tasks can be used on both large-scale and classroom-based assessments. Balanced assessment systems can be developed that integrate curriculum-embedded, benchmark, and summative assessments across classroom, district, state, national, and international levels. We discuss here the potential of technology to launch a new era of integrated, learning-centered assessment systems.
From the site: "Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-term preservation..."
New MacArthur report on teens and new media. There's a two page summary of the findings of the three year research project into kids' informal learning with digital media, a white paper, and the complete text of the forthcoming book, Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media.
Proposal to make primary source documents used by journalists available online for the public to search. Interesting points in the comments about copyright issues and the difference between primary and mediated information.
"As the internet replaces library databases as students' primary research option, a new discussion is emerging in academic circles: Is the vast amount of information at students' fingertips changing the way they gather and process information for the better--or for worse?"
This research study examines whether students who do a lot of social networking are using 21st century skills
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