The link between material use, brain research and real-time monitoring
Diagnostics with physical capabilities
Formative assessments can be:
Technology like Web Ex, Groupsystems.com, and audience response systems
Or cheap and simple
Red dot, green dot
A-E letters
The Old New Key Questions
Who teaches it?
What is taught?
When is it taught?
Where is it taught?
Why is it taught?
How is it taught?
How do we measure teaching?
Who learns it?
What is learned?
When is it learned?
Where is it learned?
Why is it learned?
How is it learned?
How do we measure learning?
Put Simply...
What aspects of teaching and learning do we want to:
Augment?
Replace?
Automate?
Decentralize?
Reform?
Example: Note Taking
Is this the reason we go to school?
It is the most practiced act.
Granted: it has the benefit for some learners of reinforcing and as a memory aid.
It is not part of the curriculum, evaluated, credited, improved.
Alternatives
Notes in advance
Lecture capture, preview, or synopses
Real-time voice to text
Moving on to the next level of discourse rather than recording the sage on the stage
Questions and Answers
Policy implications
Practice recommendations
Product recommendations
Richard J. H. Varn
rjmvarn@msn.com
Questions and Answers
Education Technology Objectives
Classroom and Institution Management
You want the grading and paperwork processes of teaching to be easier and more automated.
You want learners and their families to be able to do
self-service on classroom and institutional processes.
You want to know more about your learners before they show up for class. You want to know the results of your specific programs and effort with as much cause and effect analysis as possible.
You want your results based system to roll its results up to various mandated reports like NCLB and to teachers, researchers, educational leaders, policy makers and
