Reflection #9

The Long article was very interesting. It was nice to get another perspective on the CCSS and it's implementations. I must say that there was one point that really got my attention. I noticed that the CCSS was striving for mostly technology based assessments. This raises some major issues for me. First off, the most obvious thing is that every school and every student must have access to technology. Not every school has a budget to obtain enough technology needed for this. Another issue is electricity itself. Just last week, the power at my school went down school-wide. Lets say hypothetically you were completing one of these tech based assessments when this happened. What do you do? Is it really fair to make students start all over? More than likely, the work would not be saved, and all of it would be lost. Just as easily, the internet could go down. I imagine that the internet would be a crucial component to these tech based assessments. I like that the government had goals in mind when creating these standards, however, I feel that some things dont consider every possible situation. Seems to be a reoccurring theme in education.