More importantly, technology provides new ways of assessing learning. With small portable devices, teacher observations of students' learning skills and needs in context can be saved, organized and reviewed giving a much richer analysis of student ability than is possible from tests or a teacher's memory. The assessment of students' capability with technology will become more and more important as technology becomes more and more pervasive in every part of our lives. We will be assessing competence in life functions using technology more than we will be assessing something separate and apart called technology. This is as it has always been.
Technology is a tool.