Nov 9 2006
CAA and sample assessment + Some Delicious Links…
Well this Modules Units are whizzing by with an interesting if a little obvious chat about Computer Assisted Assessment last night. The talk did discuss in detail how computers can assist both in qualitative and quantitative assessment. Here is an example of quantitative CAA assessment using Hot Potatoes that I placed within Moodle. Although no-one has ever completed this within the 5 minutes time limit including ME!
My ‘AS’ students are still bemused by the whole ‘Web 2.0’ social movement which is looked at in the above test even they are involved and have used many so called Web 2.0 tools:- Delicious, Bloglines Aggregator, MySpace, Piczo…it is almost why do you have to call it a name this is how the web is? I can see there point of view in one way, but maybe they are not quite able to step out of the picture to look at how this is affecting their lives. My experiments with using ‘Web 2.0’ tools within their course have been of limited success, probably as much to me dabbling with many different ideas as to them not understanding the principals and how this is good or bad. RSS is another of these technologies that I think will dramatically change how we can provide education and link in to ideas of ‘ubiquitous’ education e.g. education that invades into students lives through use of technologies that they use much more often than say for example their email account. Examples would obviously be their mobile phones and there MSN messenger account. Their are already services that can send out rss feeds to mobile phones as messages in the USA so its not far away…anyway I digress….here are some delicious feeds as I am back to loggin these through my delicious account…..
After the chat seminar I had my first meeting with my tutor about the direction of this Modules assignment. It would seem the idea of me focusing on particular CMC web tools that I use for communication would be an appropriate assignment and maybe not go past that very short 6000 word mark… The idea of sticking to one web-tool for communication might be a little too much for my taste – but I definitely could look at how a variety of different tools affects and fits different users. Literature …hmmm well obviously the digital native-digital immigrant articles would be part of the discussion and maybe their lack of accuracy with practical uses and students. It would also be possible to look at how using email and other CMC tools affects the relationship between me as teacher and students on GCSE courses and maybe whether this would not be possible in different situation and schools.
I am though still inclined to the use of and setting up of school email for teachers and how that has worked or not worked as the case maybe. Which would very much look into the rationales behind why a school wants to sue technologies and then how this when implemented is reacted to by teachers due to certain reasons.
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