Software Evaluation – A Web D.I.G.
Quality software is an essential learning tool in the K – 12 milieu. How do you know what represents quality? How do you know it will match your instructional style? How do you know it will mobilize that will to learn? How do you explain to your principal that the student learning which is generated is truly worth the cost of the software? How do you know that software is free of bias to gender or ethnicity? How do you know that software meets the needs and interests of ESL, minorities, special education and handicapped students?
Your task is to design a one-page instrument for software evaluation and preview software which is available on the World Wide Web.
Your first mission is to learn about the evaluation of software. Use the questions above and the resources below to develop the criteria for your evaluation instrument.
Online Resources concerning software evaluation:
Software For Learning, Maricopa Community Colleges
Educational Software Information Sites
A sample of evaluating web pages
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1. With a partner study the resources above and
design a one-page evaluation instrument.
2. Using your evaluation instrument get your hands on some educational software and evaluate.
When completed, post your software evaluation guide on your web page and the evaluation of a software title.
Click Here to see the assessment rubric.