John Cunliffe
July 26, 2011
EDU 685
Article title: Evaluation Across Contexts: Evaluating the Impact of Technology Integration Professional Development Partnerships
After reading this article I found a few parts that interested me and that I wanted to talk about them a bit more from my perspective. This article was a very good one to have and did bring up some quality points about technology integration. This first excerpt was mentioned in the introduction:
“Teachers can use technology to transform the teaching and learning context in a way that will position their students for future opportunities in the global context, preparing them for the flattened world that technology has helped to make possible.”
First they mentioned that the “technology world is flattened.” I remember we talked about this earlier this semester. I agree with this quote that technology is basically a tool for our future to use to gain a better understanding of what is out there for them to grab a hold of and make their own. Teaching with the use of technology is beneficial to our students. They now have the resources to obtain any type of information that they would need in increase their knowledge. With the emergence of technology we have become equal, we have become smarter, and we have become a world with nothing standing in our way of achieving a better education. Before technology not everyone was equal or of the same status. There were “barriers” or walls in the way of certain people throughout the world that told them that they were not allowed on the other side. Technology itself tore down those walls. Within the internet everyone is equal, everyone has a say in what they will do in their future, and no one can say otherwise.
The second excerpt that I wanted to discuss a bit is more towards to the end of the quote where they mention collaborative evaluation:
“Technology Integration Professional Development, (TIPD) evaluation must provide feedback and information that is useful for all stakeholders in their roles. The evaluation should be nested in the contextual realities in which the technology is integrated. It should take into account the dynamic nature of technology development. To accommodate such demands, many researchers are advocating for collaborative evaluation approaches that are participant oriented.”
I do agree that sometimes in order to evaluate someone’s performance you need more than one person evaluating. Not everyone is able to make a clear and concise evaluation unless there are more people on board who are looking for different things. As a “soon to be” technology teacher I feel that I will be under a microscope from many different pair of eyes. Everyone at Iber Holmes Gove and Raymond district would like to see what I can bring to the table as an educator. As for students they are always trying to get the teachers approval no matter what. I prefer the method where there is peer evaluations going on. With the use of peer eval’s going on in your class you are having students learn from their peer’s mistakes. It is a win/win situation for the students in terms of learning. Evaluations are the most important feedback that anyone can get. It is not a way of telling you that you did great or that you messed up here and there; instead it is a way for you to become a better learner which in turn makes you a better educator because our best evaluators are our students.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ918900.pdf
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