Assessing Technology Literacy;Assessing Technology Literacy;

Hitting a Moving TargetHitting a Moving Target

Joe Bireswww.edtechleadership.com

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• "If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."

--Francis Bacon

Standards

21ST CENTURY SKILLS

Technology Literacy

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Measurement

Summative assessment

“summarizes the development of learners at a particular time”

Formative assessment

“is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment”

Testing

Rubrics

Inflection Points

Digital Natives Myth

rewiring

Relationships

The New “Berlin Wall”

They just know it...

Frustrated

The assessment is designed to assess three interconnected areas of technological and engineering literacy:

Technology and SocietyDesign and SystemsInformation and Communication Technology

NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy

(TEL) Assessment

Computational Thinking

Robotics

STEM

Economic Digital Divide

New Digital DiviDe

CONSUMER

COLLABORATOR

CREATOR

Colorado Growth ModelColorado Growth Model“How individual students and groups of students progress from year to year toward state standards.

Each student’s progress is based on where that student begins the learning process compared to the progress of other students in the state with similar starting points.”

“How individual students and groups of students progress from year to year toward state standards.

Each student’s progress is based on where that student begins the learning process compared to the progress of other students in the state with similar starting points.”

Schools Today

Problem Solving

“Cool”aboration

Build SoMething

Learning Stories