This document summarizes a presentation on using technology to enhance assessment for learning. It discusses how digital natives require a new learning paradigm that is learner-centric and involves authentic assessment. Technologies can help create authentic learning environments where students consume and produce information, and are assessed through open-book exams and team case studies that bridge theory and practice. The presentation argues this new paradigm fosters learner-centricity and authentic assessment through participatory pedagogies.

1. Assessment for Learning:Leveraging Technology Professor Jeremy B. Williams www.jeremybwilliams.net Chief Academic Officer Virtual Global Conference on Technology for Blended and Distributed Education Christ University, Bangalore 20 August 2010

2. Are these students learning? …

7. What do these students have in common? They have no recollection of life B.G.

8. B.G. is Before Google

9. The verb to means to search for information

10. The First Law of the Internet states that the answer is on the Internet. Therefore the quest is no longer “Where to find the answer” but “How to word the question”. −Randi

12. A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up with digital technology (computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3 players).

13. The consequences of all this?

15. The end of teaching and the start of learning Old Paradigm: Teacher Centric NewParadigm: Learner Centric

16. Old paradigm

17. In the knowledge economy, content is notking. Rapid technological change requires future-proof learning... learning that lasts.

18. New paradigm

19. Information iseverywhere. Importantly, the learner is both consumer and producer of this information.

20. Students need to create and publish …

22. The virtual world is the real world

23. e-Learning … it’s just learning

24. Andrew Churches (2008) Bloom’s taxonomy blooms digitally Benjamin Bloom (1956) Lorin Anderson (2001)

25. (2008)

26. Churchill (2009) Traditional literacy:Reading, writing, speaking, listening http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/new-literacy-in-the-web-20-world Information literacy:Ability to identify, locate, evaluate and use information Digital literacy:Ability to use ICTs to locate, evaluate, use and create information What does it mean to be literate? Critical literacy: Ability to question, challenge, and evaluate meaning and purpose of text Tool literacy:Ability to use tools to manage, consume, and create information Visual literacy:Ability to understand and produce visual messages Media literacy: Ability to use question, analyse, interpret, evaluate, and create media messages

27. This new paradigm is a … participatory pedagogy that fosters learner centricityand authentic assessment

28. Authentic assessment is the bridge between theory and practice Technology can assist in the creation of authentic learning environments

29. Can be online or on campus

30. Example: Team Case Study Analysis

31. Case Study 5:“The good, the bad, and the ugly” Sustainable Development and Competitive Advantage

32. The Annual Eastwood Sustainability Awards Your international standing as an expert in the field of ecological economics is such that your consultancy company has been approached to assist the Panel of Judges presiding over the Annual Eastwood Sustainability Awards

33. Think

34. Sustainable development in practice Consider the sustainable development journey … Which companies are reactive, which are proactive?

35. The dimensions of EEE [Service efficiency] [Throughput efficiency] [Growth efficiency] [Ecosystem efficiency]

36. Read

37. For example … http://www.ethicalperformance.com/ http://www.greenbiz.com/ http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/ http://corpwatch.org/

38. Discuss

40. Which are plain ugly?

42. 41 Deliver

43. Prepare a 10 minute presentation providing an example (and critique) of each Go ahead… make my day!

44. Peer reviewed learner content

45. Example: OBOW exams Open Book Open Web

46. Assessment for learning Sample OBOW exam notassessment of learning

47. authenticlearning.wordpress.com jeremybwilliams Thank you for not sleeping This presentation is available at: www.jeremybwilliams.net/jbw/Presentations.html