Divergent assessment

Fiorela Anai Fernandez Otoya

Divergent assessment
Trend of Education in the Digital Age

We know that the digital era is composed by knowledge and information within it the potential that exists in the intangibility of the same value is recognized. I question myself about "intangible" that endures in time and never ends; I realize that now it is not so important to convey information quickly and in quantity, what is important in this era is how to process and manage this information to generate knowledge and that enable to strengthen and grow people. However, for this, the person must know how to manage knowledge.

On that subject, I remember very well the words of Dr. Domingo Gallego in his conference at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, when he said that knowledge is not achieved in the overnight but is primarily a cognitive process accompanied by affection in which the person is immersed in order to give place to a phenomenon called "knowledge." That means, the educational trend in the digital age makes that the virtual teacher as the face to face one generate Knowledge, "watch out" , both paradigms have the same value but they act with different functions or models, for example, virtual education responds to a distance education model, which is based on construction and qualitative rather than quantitative criteria, on the other hand the assessment is also intended as a consensual, participatory and shared process, in which interests, therefore, that students participate in the experience, built and produce meanings thereon.

Finally I would like to highlight that the demands of society always require more, in less time, but with enough space for discovery, that means learning and knowledge have a high value nowadays into the social, economic and policy spheres of human organizations; whose impact has gestated changes in work areas and relationships. .