1. Assessing Technology Literacy;
Hitting a Moving Target
Joe Bires
www.edtechleadership.com
twitter.com/joebires
joebires@gmail.com

2. • "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

3. Standards

4. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

5. Technology Literacy
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7. Measurement

8. Summative assessment
“summarizes the development of learners at a particular
time”

9. 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”

10. Testing

11. Rubrics

13. Inflection Points

15. Digital Natives Myth

16. rewiring

17. Relationships

18. The New “Berlin Wall”

19. They just know it...

20. Frustrated

22. NAEP Technology and
Engineering Literacy (TEL)
Assessment
The assessment is designed to assess three
interconnected areas of technological and
engineering literacy:
Technology and Society
Design and Systems
Information and Communication Technology

23. Computational Thinking

24. Robotics

25. STEM

26. Economic Digital Divide

27. New Digital DiviDe
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28. Colorado 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.”

29. Schools Today

30. Problem Solving

31. “Cool”aboration

32. Build SoMething

33. Learning Stories