Because computers so clearly facilitate the conduct of complex project-based work, computers make it possible for students to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of their understandings and their competencies to perform. Julie O'Brian Only through the application of information management tools will it be possible for educational accountability to really be about improving student and system performance. My hope is technology will energize a fundamental change in the way we organize teaching and learning. Teachers should not spend all day in the classroom.
Teaching is a high-energy, focused activity with a performance quality.
In at least three ways. First, there is the challenge of embedding technology literacy into content testing in an equitable way. Second, there is the challenge of assessing in technologically authentic ways. In all of this it is imperative that we remember that technology is not the content but recognize that technology inevitably shapes the content.