Padlet: A Technology Tool for the 21st Century Students Skills Assessment

Abstract

Emergence of Internet connected devices and globalization in education has paved way for the new discoveries in the 21st Century Learning. In current classrooms, the students use various instructional technologies to synthesis new knowledge, collaborate with peers, critically solve problems, and make valid decisions to shine in the current, complex and globalized community. Due to the advancement in the technology, it is not an easy task to meet sustainability in education as identifying and deploying the proper tool as an educational and instructional tool is time-consuming and requires validation before it is widely implemented in the Higher Education Institution (HEI). Furthermore, the students from the 21 st Century are technology driven and have new approaches to learning. In response to these changes, this research aims to assess the 4Cs in the 21st Learning Skills using Padlet, an online virtual bulletin board that is gaining wide popularity in many Higher Education Institution. The 4Cs consist of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. A total of 31 undergraduate students from a Private Higher Education Institution (PHEI) participated in this case study. The results of the study indicated that the assessment via Padlet efficiently assessed the 4C's for the Computing module offered to the undergraduate students. The findings offer evidence that the virtual bulletin board promotes creativity and collaborative learning in classroom and optimizes the classroom performance.

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“…In addition to providing flexibility in time and space in online collaboration in this study, it was remarked that shareability of distinctive stimulants, such as video, image and audio increased writing achievement. A variety of research in the literature confirmed that online collaborative activities proved advantageous for writing achievement (Awaluddin, Karim & Saad, 2017;Alshalan, 2016;Bikowski & Vithanage, 2016;Garnham, Betts & Hole, 2018;Ramachandiran, & Mahmud, 2018) Regarding group interaction, although both groups were comprised of close friends, writing processes and group interactions differed in nature. 2 nd group members experienced a fruitful writing process and group interaction; however, facing a disagreement during F2F collaboration, the 1 st group had a problematic collaboration.…”

“…Concerning creativity, participants remarked that they could be more creative on online texts. The literature often addresses collaborative writing on Padlet as improving creativity (DeWitt, Alias & Siraj, 2015, Ramachandiran, & Mahmud, 2018Garnham, Betts & Hole, 2018). Drawing on the data of this study, the relationship between writing on Padlet and creativity can be explained on two points.…”

Microblogging with Padlet: Students’ New Writing Experience on A2–B1 Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

“…Blogs in the scope and features of smaller facilities are known as microblogging, and it is one of the recent technology in the Web 2.0 era [8]. Research conducted by Ebner et al exposes that microblogging media can be regarded as a recent form of communication that can informally support learning outside the classroom [8], enhance critical thinking skills, [9], as well as assessment skills [10].…”

“…Padlet is an application that allows users to collaborate with text, photos, videos, or other content. Padlet functions like an online sheet of paper or bulletin board where users can individually and collaboratively place content on a Web page [10], [17]. Concisely, Padlet helps the lecturer to give the task for the students, give comments, and also the whole class can see the result of each college students' work [18] and as well as opportunities for peer learning and selfassessment since students have immediate access to a broad spectrum of responses from classmates rather than a few responses from the vocal ones [19].…”

Assessment of Learning Design with Padlet on the Writing Skills of German Language Level A2-B1 CEFR

“…Related to the use of online media in learning, currently, microblogging media, which is smaller than a blog, is the latest technology in the web 2.0 era (Ebner, Lienhardt, Rohs, & Meyer, 2010). Research by Ebner et.all indicates, that media microblogging can be seen as a new form of communication that informally to support learning outside the classroom (Ebner et al, 2010) to train critical thinking skills, (Rathakrishnan, Ahmad, & Choi, 2018), as well as skills assessment (Ramachandiran & Mahmud, 2018).…”