To further support the educators and education institutions around Brunei Darussalam. EdTech Centre had created initiatives in assessing educational tools and softwares to ensure its efficiency is at its maximum and give direct impact to the learners themselves. Upon vigorous research and discussions, we come to term with 3 focus areas namely content and design, support materials and technical aspects.
We had also divided the assessment tools into 3 user groups. I have been searching high and low for an efficient, easy-to-understand list of criteria for evaluating hardware, software, tools, and everything in between. Most online articles that I found focus on selling things, or are incredibly vague or incomplete so I decided to do some brainstorming based on what I have found in my own practice speaking to students, teachers, specialists, and researching online.
What are your criteria for evaluating technology, applications, software, tools, or hardware for the purposes of learning and teaching? What can you add to this list based on your experiences? Thank you, thank you. I am actually having my students use and evaluate an assigned tech tool, as we prepare to work with another class in another country and from another subject area.
My first thought was that I would research, use and then decide on the best tool. However, this will be a student-centered and teacher monitored online project.
Why should I be the final decision maker? Thanks for your comment, Amy! It takes practice to get to know what tools are best for specific learning objectives and students and teachers can learn about them as a team. As suggested, now that we are focused on learning virtually, we need the tools to be able to evaluate the technological tools that we are utilizing with our students. One of the first things mentioned is the importance of putting learning first.
I could not agree with that statement more. This is ultimately the basis of why we do everything with our students at the higher education level or otherwise. What is it that I want my students to think about, learn, discuss or research for e. Before seeking any type of evaluation tools, remembering to reflect back to Blooms Taxonomy should always be at the core of our teaching and learning focus prior to learning design, usability, feasibility, cost, flexibility etc.
I especially appreciate the idea of having students evaluate some of these tools as well. It is amazing what they can come up with. Great article! Pingback: Common Standards - greatnursingessays. Pingback: Common Standards - timelyhomeworks. Pingback: Common Standards — AssigmentsLab. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. Obviously the former is the ideal scenario, but often you will end up somewhere in between these two extremes.
Is it a one off payment, or are is it a monthly subscription? Are there additional costs involved like headphones and webcams, and will your current hardware run the software without upgrades? You should also consider how this product compares to competing products to make sure you are getting the most for your money.
Unless you are evaluating a brand new software title, the chances are that there are reviews online that can give you a good idea of how well this software will work in a school environment. Google is a great place to start looking for review, but eSchoolnews, Schoolzone. If you can, you should also try to talk to other teachers and schools that are using this software to get their impressions of its strengths and weaknesses. This will give you a better all round feel for the product you are looking at.
As promised, we have for your download a printable checklist about evaluating software , as covered by the key points in this article. Feel free to customize or use this document in any way you want, and please share it with whoever you think would find it useful. If, for instance, you are evaluating educational software for a specific niche, like a special needs classroom, you can change it to include an additional set of priorities that you will want to address.
Otherwise, you should have all you need to make some relevant, informed decisions for your school. Page content. Ideas must be divided into small, logical modules for easy comprehension and long-term retention. Consider the following questions when evaluating the content of educational software: Does the software support academic expectations? Is the tool developmentally appropriate? Does the product encourage performance-based learning?
Does the application use a developmentally appropriate vocabulary? Does the software appeal to various learning styles? Does the package adapt to various learning abilities?
Does the product provide accurate and current information? Does the application successfully integrate technology and instruction? Does the software increase student understanding of the topic? Does the package show any bias social, religious, ethnic, or gender which might taint its presentation?
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