EDLD+5364+Week5+Reflections

This week's readings focused on the use of technology based rubrics to enhance student effort and ePortfolio creation using Web 2.0 tools. The rubric question is interesting to me because as I mentioned on the discussion board, there appears to be a movement among some tech-savvy teachers away from rubrics as too constricting on student creativity. The other objection takes the case of the GT student who uses the rubric to determine the path of least resistance to get an 'A'. Both these objections have merit if the rubric is poorly constructed. I would think that student creativity could still be fostered if the rubric doesn't insist upon unimportant criteria that bog the project/assignment down. Similarly, an easy 'A' can be avoided by making an 'A' hard to get. There's no reason for the teacher to dumb down the material so everyone gets an 'A'.