Where's the beef?

Sometimes its not so easy finding "three new things that I've learned" especially if the content centers around a theme that should be inherent in every teacher. -using teaching methods (in this case technology based ones) as a means of learning as opposed to a means of regurgitation. So rather than reiterating the text "Wheres the Beef" -as this seems in direct contradiction to the message of the article- I will discuss the one thing I learned which is the presence of a nationwide/universal scoring system for student digital communication systems. This surprised me, and at first I was taken back a little, for i feel that assessment not only should be classroom specific, but student specific as well, and that the idea of an umbrella standard does not usually work well. on a second thought however, I realize that with an emerging field such as digital communication, teachers-myself included- may not be up to par with the functions of technology, having this standard would provide useful insight to elaborate technology based assessment.

With my own teaching, this would be a great tool for extrapolating literary theory, it would help push learning and demonstration of learning beyond the 'book report' or the plot summary of various texts.

I have found, and with this tool would hope to avoid the reduction of information when presented through the technological medium (I am speaking of power point specifically, yet all mediums run the reductionist risk) instead of degrading information to a series of bulleted points, or simply re printing information on a computer screen, the use of technology should express the extent of the knowledge at hand( leading all the way through blooms taxonomy) but i should also utilize the extent of technology as a tool.
The main question i would have, i suppose, pertains to my original distaste for this universalized grading program, how and what would this program look like and change with the ever rapidly change field of technology?