While some apps offer the teacher the ability to track student progress, not all classrooms have a class set of iPads at their disposal that they are able to consistently track student’s progress. Therefore, what is the usefulness of asking students to use specific apps when we cannot track their progress?
This question led to the modification of my inquiry topic and main question. While I originally wanted to focus on how technology could be used to personalize learning and not only as an assessment tool. Yet, I would now question the validity and relevance of using technology that we are not able to assess it. Without being able to assess the student’s technology use, how do we know that they are meeting the learning outcomes that we have set?
This is an interesting question Sara. I wonder though, is it the students’ technology use that we as educators are interested in assessing or are the learning outcomes more related to ‘what’ the students are learning (competency, content and concept)? I am also curious as to how you came to the question of ‘what is the use of using apps if we can’t track individual progress’ – is there related literature you accessed that helped ‘sway’ you?