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Real simple ways that technology can help in assessing in musical performances is just by using recording devices. Simply by using either video or voice recorders, a teacher is able to focus on the class in the moment, and go back to watch or listen afterwards to discover if the children were meeting their assessment criterion. I do not think that the mere presence of technological decives in the general music classroom threatens the authenticity of assessment. Just because it is there does not mean that the teacher needs to or has to use the technology every moment of every lesson. So really, it comes down to the teacher and what they're capable of. Like with my example of recording the children, that is probably as much technology as I think I personally could handle in the classroom for assessment purposes, but another teacher may be very capable of integrating more into their means of assesing,