Michael Dietz's BUSE 4280 Blog

With a focus on expanding education into newer technologies when will paper and pencil tests be lost forever, and is that a good thing?

I came up with this question and I think it is best thought about and discussed during the entirety of a class, like this one, that is focused on building and growing the technologies used in teaching.  I think it is interesting to consider the history of education when considering the future.  Thus, I think all the students in the class and most who will read this post grew up taking paper and pencil tests, writing essays and filling in bubble sheets.  While I understand the learning preferences and problems that these tests pose to students I think something can be said for the results of these tests for so many generations and how our society hasn’t cumbled, in an educational and learning sense, with their use.

In Chapter 1, to go along with my question David Jakes made a list of 7 points titled, Making It Stick.  Point 4 is: The innovation must add value to an instructional process.  While I won’t argue that new technologies and assessment methods don’t add value, but on the other hand, could they actually take away value from other established methods?

My last thought from the chapter is the table with the comparison of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.  I believe the current rate of technological advancement is that it doubles or something every 5 years or so.  What could we possibly consider and imagine Web 3.0 to be like?  Also, when should we expect it to arrive?