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This week I learned the importance of assessment and how technology plays a part in this. We as teachers need to assess our students in the content that we teach for two main reasons. We need to see if the students are understanding and able to apply the knowledge that we have taught and we also need to see if there is a better way that the information can be taught. The important thing to remember about these assessments is that we can no longer wait until the lesson or unit is over to assess. We must assess before, during, and after the information is taught. Using this approach provides the teacher and students ways to improve and not waste time going through the motions when the problem of not knowing can be taken care of sooner than later. Technology can assist in these assessments. We can use technology to create assessments for students and help teachers gauge where they are needing improvement. We can use online games, prepared quizzes on the computer or with student response systems, or simple response document creations. All of these options help students express themselves AND show what they are grasping.