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Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling: Are We Doing Well? The digital storytelling: A powerful technology tool for the 21 st century classroom is an academic article that presents the history of digital storytelling and how it has been applied in different ways in classrooms. In the article, they reinforced the importance of including technology tools in educational institutions, yet adding computers is not enough and does not provide any valuable experience to students’ knowledge. This academic tool allows students to create a more critical and creative thinking; however, this is useless if professors do not know how to combine education and technology. This article also evidence the excellent results that not only technological material but also digital storytelling brings to students and professors. They also describe the three main categories in which storytelling can be divided. Also, they mentioned the TPCK (Technological pedagogical content knowledge) which means that a professor shoul...

Standardized Tests

Are Standardized Tests Fair Evaluations? Evaluations are necessary in different life areas to demonstrate certain knowledge that people must have to be able for applying it in the future or for getting a promotion. That is why many people around the world have been part of standardized tests at any time in their lives. Standardized tests are a kind of assessment which means that a specific group of students will take the same exam that is elaborated and scored in a consistent way. This tests evaluate students’ abilities in mathematical and reading reasoning by multiple choice and with the same rubric for every student. This evaluations are significantly common in countries as United States or New Zealand to promote students to the next level along all of the levels. They are also common for admission processes as the University of Costa Rica admission test. According to Strauss (2011), “S cores on a standardized test ‘usually do not provide a direct and complete measure of edu...