Sunday, November 29, 2009

Week 1 Part 1

I found out several things from taking the two different assessments. I took the TEA Assessment which measured my Technology Ability. I also took the Teacher SETDA survey since that is my current position. The TEA assessment indicated that I had 67% yes in the foundations area, with twelve yes and six no, out of a total of eighteen questions. My information Acquisition was also in the sixty percent area. So I am good at the bottom level foundation wise, and can usually find what I am looking for, however when it came to Solving Problems and communication on a Technology level I was only about fifty percent. This means the higher level it is, as far as communicating technology wise, and understanding the deeper things with the computer, it is like a flip of a coin for me, a hit or miss chance, fifty-fifty on whether I can do it. The other assessment showed the same sort of information but what I also noticed was that the way they questioned you was different. It appeared that I couldn’t do anything, but it would be one word in the question that would get me to have to go negative instead of positive. This is misleading to someone who looks at my results but doesn’t know me. The assessments definitely help me to see why this class is making me feel like I am in over my head…. the professors are expecting a high level of technology use, but not teaching it, and there is too much crammed in to one week for someone that takes days to understand just the technology part.

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