Chapter four Assessing Digital Stories 


When incorporating DST into the classroom teachers often are hesitant because of lack of time, resources, knowledge and assessment capabilities.  "In an era of No Child Left Behind, there is little incentive for teachers to branch out into new areas of literacy or content exploration unless they feel comfortable assessing the student work that such new ventures will produce”  Jason B. Ohler. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity (p. 63). Kindle Edition.  I agree with this assessment of teacher time and comfortableness with grading students use of technology in the classroom.  


Another quote that I agree with in explaining why the incorporation of technology in education is difficult for teachers, "Technology in education is stalled on the assessment issue, largely because the public has been led to believe that using technology should somehow make us smarter. Clearly, technology doesn't do this, especially when the metric used to determine intelligence is the standardized test”  Jason B. Ohler. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity (p. 63). Kindle Edition.