Competency-Based Learning seeks to understand new and existing ways that students can demonstrate their understanding of different content areas in meaningful ways. Through different means of demonstrating their learning, students are strengthening life-long skills that can be useful beyond classroom walls. I believe that technology has opened up different avenues for students to demonstrate their competencies. The article titled “100 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know” proves this! There are so many technological tools and outlets that cater to students' individual strengths and weaknesses. For example, students that are more well-spoken and feel comfortable giving oral presentations can create a YouTube channel, demonstration, or commercial to show what they know. Students who are more shy, but enjoy curating visuals might choose to create a brochure, digital scrapbook, or model demonstrating their understanding of something. The opportunities for students to demonstrate their competencies in all content areas are truly endless with technology. Instead of drilling students over material using tests and quizzes that don’t take into account student interests, we need to bring in different/more meaningful ways for students to demonstrate their learning.
