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TECHNOLOGY-BASED ASSESSMENT ALTERNATIVES



Social Networking: An Opportunity for Feedback and Collaboration Social networking is only the beginning of a longer and more complex process of socially constructed learning and ultimately collaboration and knowledge building. While good teaching and learning rests on effective relationships (Cummins, 2000), in an active learning community, those relationships should evolve into actual idea exchange and knowledge construction.

File Sharing: The Building Block to Gathering and Synthesizing Information File sharing provides a unique venue for teachers to post current and relevant information for students in a common place as well as provide a forum for students to explore, comment, review, and discuss curricular materials, articles, and postings in an academic setting.

Digital Storytelling and Podcasting: I Do and I Remember Digital storytelling and podcasting are outstanding alternative assessment tools which facilitate the combination of narrative with digital content including images, sound, and video.

Gaming: Experience the Challenge How do you get someone to learn something long, hard, and complex and yet enjoy it? Lots of young people pay lots of money to engage in an activity that is hard, long, and complex through digital games. Educational games commonly require the use of logic, memory, problem-solving, critical thinking skills, visualization, and discovery, all of which are essential 21st century skills.