Evaluation of Technology Including Effects of Using Technology When Teaching

The ability to evaluate technology, resources, using technology and effects of using it is considered to be a justified educational requirement. It is in compliance with aspects of pedagogical objectivism (for fulfilling external, justified needs) and with aspects of pedagogical subjectivism (for cultivating of consciousness, emotions and being). Also the revised concept aimed at the cognitive domain (being a complex one) puts cognitive process and evaluation explicitly among higher dimension levels. The cognitive dimension of Bloom taxonomy includes four categories: factual, conceptual, procedural and meta-cognitive. It is obvious that the evaluation of technology and effects of its use as educational content of technical classes requires tasks of high appraisement. This contribution focuses on the topic of evaluation of technological resources and effects of using technology; first, from a teachers perspective who must handle this topic successfully to educate a student plus from the point of view of educational goals and tasks and second, from the perspective of a student. This contribution analyses teacher's approaches towards the matter and ways of evaluating specific technological resources for educational purposes and for future practical use as well. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.