"100 million blogs—online journals—now exist worldwide, and 171 billion e-mail messages are sent daily." These numbers are almost hard to comprehend but they are the reality of what technology has come to be in 2007.
Although tests will most likely be done on a computer by the year 2011, what happens to those that need to write on paper before they type on the computer? I am one of those students and I would fail terribly if I had to type an essay or an article on the spot before drafting it on paper. Just because technology is increasing in schools and because almost every teenager our there uses numerous forms of technology, that doesn't mean that every single student would be successful at it on an exam.
When I attended St. Joseph's college, I had a professor that made those who didn't usually write drafts write one before they types, and those who did write drafts, to not write one. I got as far as two pages when I re-read what I typed and could not believe how incomplete and unorganized my thoughts and writing was. So what will happen in 2011? Will those students that need to write before they type receive bad grades or get held back?
This is the problem with tests and standardized tests. They make students feel unintelligent and it puts them at the bottom of the list if they do not do well even though they are smart and sophisticated students.
Also, why won't this new performance of test taking happen until 2011? I am suprised it will take that long to happen.
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