Admittedly, technology has changed many people’s lives, especially since the article mentioned that we tend to forget that technology is an object used to aid the human race, not a factor that determines our lives, as is the case in Machine-Mediated Learning. However, in my understanding what piqued my interest was the difference in terms of assessment in Machine-Mediated and Technology-mediated.

It was discussed that since brains are different from one another, assessment in Machine-Mediated is often individualized and is subjected to standardization which can be unfair to some learners who do not do well in dialectic and mimetic pedagogy which was the used format before. Now, assessment is passively included in the learning itself in the form of formative assessments and peer or external reviews. Aside from that, e-learning is more interactive and stimulating than the traditional classroom and blackboard form of learning because teachers instead of just providing pen and paper tests would choose to make the class more interactive in the form of simulations and competitive online game-like quizzes which also captures the attention of students who previously are having a hard time with attention span in a regular classroom set-up. This then explains that rather than changing the former set-up technology-mediated learning fills in the gaps that the traditional form of learning lacks in engaging the modern lifestyle which is heavily influenced by technology or in simpler terms it dynamically addresses the changes of the demand and needs of society and learners.