Saturday, February 11, 2012

2. Digital Content and Assessments


2. Digital Content and Assessments: A device in every kid’s hands and surplus broadband will free schools to think digitally, to stop pouring money into antiquated resources like textbooks, and to start using and producing rich, mobile education media that will truly transform education. Digital content will energize and enable anywhere, anytime, any way learning in schools and create the next generation of knowledge workers that are both consuming and producing content and leveraging “Crowd Accelerated Innovation” for their own education. On the assessment side, much is being done on the national level to develop and drive online assessments, but Michigan can do more. With smart investments, we can and should move all assessments into some format for electronic delivery. This will lower annual development and delivery costs and add instructional value by returning results to schools within weeks, not months. 


So can you help? This blog is meant to help "crowd source" an annotated bibliography that provides empirical support for the five points. Our goal is to move 54321 Michigan beyond a rant or response into action and we need to provide an evidence-based industry like public education with support that good things can and should be done.

Can you  support the claim that "every student needs access to high quality digital resources and real-time assessments" with a citation and link to a resource? Then post a comment with that information. Please try to use APA if you can. Thank you!

3 comments:

Josh said...

"A digital text book in every students hand will also help Michigan have a jump start on President Obama's goal to have a digital text book in every students had by 2017" Toopo, G. (1/31/2012). Obama wants schools to speed digital transition. USA Today. Retrieved Feburay 1, 2012, from http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-01-31/schools-e-textbooks/52907492/1

Josh Hayes
Pine River Area Schools

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Eweek article: Study Gives First Look at Data's Impact on Districts

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/02/22/21data.h31.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mrss