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Yong Zhao in Conversation: Education Should Liberate, Not Indoctrinate - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
"Using standardized tests to measure student performance in a few subjects distorts the whole picture of education, confuses test scores with real education that prepares competent and responsible citizens, and reduces education to test preparation. These simplistic accountability measures distract policy makers, educators, parents, and students from addressing what really matters in education, waste precious political and financial assets, and unfairly blames educators for societal problems. The lack of faith in public education could lead to the demise of the great American tradition--a decentralized public education system that strives to educate all children in their local context…

I think educators have to shoulder the responsibilities of public intellectuals--we need to advocate, educate, and act…"

[See aslo: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/05/yong_zhao_common_core.html ]
standards  accountability  assessment  publicschools  schools  2012  well-being  learning  teaching  policy  commoncore  standardizedtesting  standardization  us  education  yongzhao  from delicious
18 days ago by robertogreco
PBL and Buck Institute for Education Day 2
I didn’t say that Reggio Emilia is a model that can be transported to the US, although you could study and learn from what their teachers do for the rest of your life. In fact, the educators from Reggio Emilia are explicit in their refusal to be perceived of as a model. They prefer approach.

[See the comments, especially. Bookmark points to them.]
reggioemilia  education  assessment  learning  garystager  deanshareski  scottsfloyd  tcsnmy 
20 days ago by robertogreco
Responding to Responses to “What Automated Essay Grading Says To Children” | Bud the Teacher
"I wrote a post the other day about what I feel like the use of machine scoring for student writing looks like to children.  The responses were strong.  I thought it made sense for me to clarify what I was saying, what I wasn’t saying, and what I didn’t say. #

Let’s tackle the last one first.  I didn’t say that I’m unsympathetic to the idea that more writing would happen if there was less grading to do.  Certainly, one reason that writing isn’t happening enough in classrooms now is that there’s a perception that every piece written must be “marked” or “graded” or “bled upon” by a teacher.  That’s completely false and a terrible idea. #

What our students need isn’t so many end comments or suggestions for grammatical or technical correction, but they need to be responded to as writers by readers who are reading their work.  Peter Elbow says this far smarter than I ever could, but we teachers should be doing less evaluating and more responding. #

So, yes.  Teachers are taking too long with papers.  The answer isn’t to stop reading them. It’s to read them differently.  Or to have more teachers reading fewer students’ writing.  And we don’t need to read everything that a student writes.  We certainly don’t need to grade everything a student writes. #"
machinescoring  via:lukeneff  standardizedtesting  grades  grading  writing  assessment  teaching  feedback  cv  howwework  howwelearn  budhunt  automatedgrading  essaysgrading  essays  peterelbow  2012 
4 weeks ago by robertogreco
A Late Night Chat on Assessment · willrich45 · Storify
"Proving that you can have an interesting, meaningful, civil chat on Twitter about an important topic. Next time, I hope these guys have it while I'm awake."
interruption  instruction  conversation  constuctivism  lcproject  tcsnmy  lisanielsen  heidiechternacht  standardizedtesting  schools  teaching  learning  reflection  roblyons  derekbraman  joebower  garystager  johnspencer  maryannreilly  reggioamelia  deschooling  2012  unschooling  education  willrichardson  storify  assessment  from delicious
6 weeks ago by robertogreco
Jersey Jazzman: No Child Let Ahead
"Put yourself in an Eighth Grade geometry (a high level of mathematics for that age) teacher's shoes for a minute. Your kids will be taking a test that mostly covers content from last year. Your livelihood is on the line. Your ability to pay your mortgage is predicated not on your kids' abilities to pass a test in this year's content, but on last year's content.

What are you going to do? Push them ahead? Or make damn well sure they "grow" on a test based on what they did the previous year?"
via:tom.hoffman  math  tracking  standardizedtesting  standards  testing  assessment  valueadded  teaching  education  policy  2012 
6 weeks ago by robertogreco
#beyondthetextbook – Considering Inputs | Bud the Teacher
"* …we need APIs that’ll help us pull our data out of the tools we use & put it into the tools that we use so that we can build dashboards of useful data
* input information, not output information – but maybe some of both – descriptive tools – not prescriptive ones this is important & I need to write about it
* inputs rather than outputs; experiences rather than tests
* describing the learning by the institution – not so much on the student"

"…how teachers and students can meaningfully share annotations via their texts…what tools could provide this sort of input information easily… How could they make my data available to me in more useful ways? What sorts of infrastructures would need to exist for that data to be useful in a dashboard for learning?"

"…much of assessment [at Brightworks] is done by the staff & about the experiences they’ve created…there’s less emphasis on what each individual student learned. The students themselves are focused on what they’ve learned…"
datacollection  datamanagement  dashboardforlearning  dml2012  assessment  curriculum  schools  gevertulley  brightworks  data  learning  teaching  tools  api  2012  budhunt  from delicious
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
DML2012 John Seely Brown Keynote on Vimeo
cheating  rigor  measurement  hierarchy  fanfiction  games  gaming  social  knowledgeecologies  self-assessment  assessment  knowledge  learningecologies  wow  literacy  reading  mobilelearning  writing  harrypotter  dianarhoten  davidtheogoldberg  networkage  scaling  scalability  scale  embodiedlearning  montessori  mariamontessori  johndewey  timel-hady  johnrendon  cambrianmoment  flow  flux  change  future  play  making  learning  entrepreneurship  technology  deschooling  unschooling  education  dml  dml2012  2012  johnseelybrown  from delicious
12 weeks ago by robertogreco
Friedrich Knauss - Google+ - "Your entire career will be based on a the equivalent of single tweet."
"CST tests.

60 multiple choice questions for each student.

4 choices for each question.

That's 2 bits per question. 15 (8 bit) bytes per student. The sum total of how we look at their success.

Those 30 bytes get turned into a score between 150 & 600. 450 points (9 bits), except it's not. Because of weighting and quantization, you only get 160ish discrete scores. That's down to under 8 bits per student. (Probably appropriate, because the questions are unique from one level to next, so information about an individual response doesn't correlate to any particular response from the next year).

If a teacher has 28 kids in 5 periods, that's 140 students. 1120 bits of data to evaluate their entire performance for a year.

NY has decided that test scores will count for 40% of a teachers evaluation, & an unsatisfactory rating on test scores prohibits anything except an unsatisfactory rating for the other 60%.

Your entire career will be based on a the equivalent of single tweet."
2012  schooliness  schools  education  testscores  performance  numbers  data  absurdity  assessment  evaluation  tests  standardizedtesting  testing 
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Power of Feedback | blog of proximal development
"In my last post, I wrote about the value of Assessment for Learning as an approach to supporting and engaging students. Whenever we talk about Assessment for Learning, we must also address its key element — timely, effective, and meaningful feedback…

Corrections, like the ones in the image above, never focus on things that a student performed well. They zero in on what went wrong. They are also very definitive and authoritarian. They show weaknesses in student work, they point out mistakes and errors.

Feedback, on the other hand, is about supporting the student in the process of moving toward the goal and closing that gap between where she is now and where she needs to be. As teachers, we must help our students answer three questions:

1. Where am I going?

2. How am I doing?

3. What actions do I need to take next?

In other words, effective feedback focuses on goals, progress, and next steps."
writing  goalsetting  goals  reflection  constructivecriticism  howweteach  corrections  learning  education  learning  tcsnmy  assessmentforlearning  teaching  assessment  2012  konradglogowski  _learning  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Assessment for Learning | blog of proximal development
"In too many classrooms, work is assigned, handed in, receives a grade … and any opportunity to engage students in thinking about and learning from their work is lost. In a classroom devoted to meaningful, timely, and effective feedback, and to assessment *for* learning, not mere assessment of learning, we engage students in conversations that provide them with the support and guidance they need to be successful. These conversations and the feedback we give also provide us — the teachers — with valuable information on how well we’re reaching and supporting the learners in our classrooms. And yet, in many classrooms around the world, assessment for learning is just not present, which begs an important question: what’s stopping us from providing this kind of ongoing and meaningful support to our students? Why is it so challenging to implement?"
cv  rubrics  reflection  feedback  howweteach  tcsnmy  learning  teaching  assessmentforlearning  assessment  konradglogowski  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
CiteULike: 'No Number Can Describe How Good It Was': assessment issues in the multimodal classroom
"Within an outcomes based educational system built on the principles of redress, social justice, multilingualism and multiculturalism, issues of equity in teaching, learning and assessment are increasingly on South Africa's educational agenda…

Through a case study discussion of a multimodal project with disaffected Soweto youth, the authors argue that new criteria for assessment need to be developed in order to address the complexity of thinking about communication as a multiple semiotic practice and students as designers of meaning. Such criteria place human agency and resourcefulness at the centre of meaning-making, and focus on the recruitment of resources, generativity across modes, linkages and connections across modes and genres, voicing of self, community and culture, the processes of making and reflectiveness, as well as taking account of the 'community of arbiters'."

[via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teachandlearn/6842871555/ ]
assessmentforlearning  multimodalclassroom  tcsnmy  learning  equity  politicsofrepresentation  casestudy  robertmaungedzo  pippastein  davidandrew  denisenewfield  communication  expression  languagearts  english  art  soweto  multiliteracies  understanding  making  reflectiveness  reflection  culture  community  designersofmeaning  communication  research  teaching  multiculturalism  multilingualism  education  assessment  southafrica  meaningmaking  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education - YouTube
"Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment."
understanding  creativity  schools  schooling  schooliness  tcsnmy  obedience  conformism  power  cooperation  cooperativesystems  imagination  authority  assessment  gradschool  2012  highereducation  highered  inquiry-basedlearning  inquiry  testtaking  universities  colleges  enlightenment  conformity  debt  vocationaltraining  control  deschooling  unschooling  learning  democracy  indoctrination  standardization  teaching  purpose  technology  noamchomsky  education  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Thoughts from an IB mind | Live. Love. Learn.
"If a programme is world renowned for it’s inquiry based learning.. why isn’t it for it’s assessment? I remember rubric after rubric being presented to us by our instructors, which is what is supposed to happen, then the IBO goes and slaps a demeaning word onto your work.

Although there are so many benefits to having an IB diploma, I can also see the damage it did to me as well. In university I always get so stressed out when I hand in a paper or get a midterm back, because it has been so ingrained in me to get that 7. I never want to see the word mediocre again.. because I’m just not… no student is.  Looking back as a preservice teacher, it doesn’t seem right to me."
ib  assessment  internationalbaccalaureate  2011  grades  grading  inquiry-basedlearning  inquiry  rubrics  education  schooliness  motivation  extrinsicmotivation  intrinsicmotivation  stress  tcsnmy 
november 2011 by robertogreco
The high school transcript is the most nefarious force in education that no one is talking about « Re-educate Seattle
"High school is a game that’s played by a certain set of rules. Those who are good at understanding and following the rules are rewarded with A’s. The problem is that, often, these rules have nothing to do with a student’s command of academic content.

So all the complexity of Jane, Andrew, and Zelia are reduced to this:

Jane – A
Andrew – B
Zelia – F

As their classroom teacher, I can tell you with certainty: these letters, they do not mean what you think they mean."
stevemiranda  collegeadmissions  highschool  grades  grading  assessment  learning  education  pscs  pugetsoundcommunityschool  2011  transcripts  schooliness  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  lcproject  standardization  thegameofschool  theprincessbride  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Please, NO Grades Teachers :: NuVu studio
"For our NuVu Studio, we wanted to create a space where students could learn how to learn in a way that nurtured their creative process and inspired them to innovate. In such an environment, we wanted our kids to work together, come up with many ideas – not just one answer or idea, freely discuss their ideas, look at things from multiple perspectives, defer all judgments, challenge assumptions, take as many risks and try out new moves, make tons and tons of mistakes AND learn from these mistakes, all as part of the process of discovery and innovation. And this meant very clearly for us, removing grading from our studio. But without grading, how would students be motivated to work? The motivation to do/create is a key aspect of the design studio. If you ask our students, the motivation to create comes from an intrinsic feeling based on the fact that they are working on real projects that they themselves feel are meaningful and matter. The students come up with the project idea…"
nuvustudio  education  learning  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  grades  grading  assessment  projectbasedlearning  problemsolving  studioclassroom  motivation  émilechartier  beavercountryday  reflection  self-reflection  2011  has:for  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Test Scores, Tech Budgets, and Other Reasons to Doubt Ed-Tech | Hack Education
"And that’s really just the beginning of the problems we have with these particular cries for “proof” that ed-tech works. Test scores always fail to account for everything that happens in a classroom. They don’t give you much insight about the rapport students have with the teacher or with each other. They don’t indicate much about deep cognition or retention. And despite test names that purport to look at “readiness,” these tests do nothing to gauge our children’s readiness for the future.<br />
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Yes, I understand it’s easy to say “no more technology expenditures til I see proof” — that’s what the last line of the NYT story leaves you with and that’s the question that taxpayers may be asking — but we have to look critically at what we’re looking at when we ask whether or not technology works for teaching and learning."
edtech  education  learning  testing  standardizedtesting  2011  assessment  khanacademy  teaching  schools  relationships  policy  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Teaching Social Innovation | Austin Center for Design
"“We [need to] teach decidedly unglamorous, small scale tools that allow people to make meaning in as significant ways possible, not only in terms of outcomes, but in terms of process.” That’s precisely the right message for design educators – to emphasize significance in process, rather than object, and focus on small-scale, deep impact. It’s a rejection of an exhausted focus on metrics, scale, and artifacts, and for many of us, it means ignoring the hype of design tourism. I’m positioning the program at AC4D on creating founders who have a sensitive, passionate, and intellectual approach to their work. And I’m thrilled to see more and more programs embracing social innovation, and re-evaluating – and in many cases, massively overhauling – tired design curricula."
jonkolko  design  education  learning  socialinnovation  designeducation  projectbasedlearning  2011  metrics  measurement  success  humanitariandesign  depthoverbreadth  timelines  time  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  ac4d  meaning  meaningfulness  eziomazini  helenwaters  commitment  relationships  tcsnmy  communityengagement  krissdeiglmeier  socialimpact  assessment  tracking  accreditation  credentials  convenience  responsibility  designtourism  entrepreneurship  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Customized Learning - The Slideshow | Education Rethink
Great set of slides from John T Spencer. Notes are forthcoming, but the slides should speak for themselves. These were for his Reform Symposium presentation in 2011. (I missed it, so I'm glad it put them online.)
johnspencer  teaching  learning  tcsnmy  differentiatedlearning  customization  self-directedlearning  student-centered  studentdirected  pedagogy  unschooling  deschooling  standards  mastery  presentations  classideas  networking  hierarchy  freedom  autonomy  projectbasedlearning  science  socialstudies  reading  writing  flexibility  choice  dialogue  relationships  conversation  assessment  metaphor  ownership  empowerment  fear  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Guiding Principles :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
"For the future of our children, we demand:<br />
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Equitable funding for all public school communities<br />
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An end to high stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation<br />
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Teacher, family and community leadership in forming public education policies<br />
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Curriculum developed for and by local school communities"<br />
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[Click through for sub-points under each of the above.]
education  2011  sosmarch  washingtondc  protest  dc  policy  politics  funding  teaching  learning  schools  publicschools  libraries  assessment  standardizedtesting  local  leadership  classsize  curriculum  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Teachable Moment - "How to Stop Cheaters", by Alan Shapiro
"there are tests that ask for more, ask for thinking…& open book tests…<br />
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But in everyday life both adults & kids often think w/ other people & use whatever resources seem likely to help. What is valued in such group efforts is coming up w/ questions that nobody else has thought to ask…thoughts that connect A w/ B & C & w/ others' ideas…insights that foresee consequences regarding a possible action…ability to work well w/ others & carry out group decisions capably.<br />
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If there is an incentive for cheating in such group endeavors, it is more likely in an investment banking firm that includes a stock analyst division or in a telecom corporation that conspires collectively to cook its books to produce let's-pretend profits than among students working on a problem.<br />
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So why not at least some tests that promote group thinking & acting but that also have a role for individual thinking & acting? Certainly, some teachers make such tests part of their programs.<br />
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Here is a sample…"
writing  education  testing  tests  assessment  groupwork  teaching  alanshapiro  learning  tcsnmy  cheating  sharing  unschooling  deschooling  problemsolving  problem-basedlearning  criticalthinking  collaboration  peer-assessment  via:irasocol  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - ‪James Gee on the Future of Learning‬‏
"Jim Gee nicely frames the state of games and learning, and as usual isn't afraid of raising some dust. This talk was at ESA's 2nd Learning and Games Summit."
games  gaming  play  videogames  future  learning  interactivity  jamespaulgee  esa  seriousgames  feedback  problemsolving  criticalthinking  production  datamining  growth  media  gamification  social  community  testing  standardizedtesting  assessment  ranking  socialmedia  integratedlearning  education  entertainment  experience  engagement  discovery  via:maryannreilly  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Have American Businesses Been Stranded By the MBAs? - Slashdot
"In his new book, Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business, legendary car-guy Bob Lutz says to get the U.S. economy growing again, we need to fire the MBAs & let engineers run the show. The auto industry, writes TIME's Rana Foroohar, is actually a terrific proxy for a trend toward short-term, myopically balance-sheet-driven management that has infected American business. In the first half of 20th century, industrial giants like Ford, GE, AT&T & others used new technologies to create the best possible products & services w/ idea that if you build it better, the customers will come. But by late 70s, if-you-can-measure-it-you-can-manage-it MBAs were flourishing, & engineers were relegated to the geek back rooms. 'Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys,' argues Lutz, '& software firms by software guys.' Learning that China plans to open 40 new graduate schools of business in next few years, Lutz quipped, 'That's the best news I've heard in years.'"
management  business  books  productivity  shortterm  mba  economics  bigthree  technology  progress  measurement  assessment  china  us  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Hope Survey
"Background: Research shows students engagement & motivation decreases as they progress through secondary school. This disengagement & lack of motivation is a key concern for educators. In searching for an explanation for this decline, educational researchers have examined the nature of school environment & determined school environments can exert influences on student motivations & engagement through their support or lack of support for students’ developmental needs. These needs include autonomy, belongingness & competence (measured by goal orientation).<br />
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"Purpose: The Hope Survey is a unique tool, which enables schools to assess their school environment through the eyes of their students by measuring student perceptions of autonomy, belongingness & goal orientations as well as their resulting engagement in learning & disposition twd achievement. The Hope Survey can diagnose whether a school culture has the components that encourage higher levels of engagement in learning."
via:steelemaley  thehopesurvey  schools  education  assessment  engagement  autonomy  democracy  democraticschools  belonging  measurement  surveys  students  tcsnmy  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Teacher's Assessment. Or the Inevitable Arrogance. - ateacherswonderings's posterous
"I admit. I am not a good teacher blogger. I prefer writing poems and watching beautiful things."
via:rushtheiceberg  teaching  poetry  beauty  assessment  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
A systematic review of the impact of summative assessment and tests on students' motivation for learning
"What did we find?  <br />
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*After introduction of National Curriculum tests in England, low-achieving pupils had lower self-esteem than higher-achieving students; before tests, there had been no correlation btwn self-esteem & achievement. Low self-esteem reduces chance of future effort & success.<br />
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*High-stakes tests can result in transmission teaching & highly-structured activities…favors only students w/ certain learning styles…tests can become rationale for all that is done in classroom.<br />
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*A strong emphasis on testing produces students w/ a strong extrinsic orientation towards grades & social status, i.e. a motivation towards performance rather than learning goals…<br />
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*Interest & effort are increased in classrooms which encourage self-regulated learning by providing students with an element of choice, control over challenge & opportunities to work collaboratively. <br />
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*Feedback that is ego-involving rather than task-involving is associated w/ an orientation to performance goals."
assessment  testing  self-esteem  uk  motivation  extrinsicmotivation  intrinsicmotivation  collaboration  success  effort  schools  learning  teaching  education  performance  choice  feedback  summativeassessment  tcsnmy  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
So What is It about Finland’s Schools? : 2¢ Worth [See also: http://vickyloras.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/interview-with-esa-kukkasniemi-finnish-educator/ ]
"You can read the entire interview here in her blog as well as opportunities for you to talk with educators in Finland. But here are some statements from Esa that I highlighted in Diigo, as he ticked off major important points that have led to success in Finland’s education system.<br />
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..much of it lays in the Finnish educational culture: teachers are respected professionals..<br />
One really important issue is that we have quite small economical differences in the income of the people if you compare us to most of the countries in the world. We have strong scientific evidence that where the economical differences between people grow too big, the learning goes down.<br />
We don’t test the teachers at all..<br />
..we don’t test the pupils much either<br />
We have strong belief in the professionals.<br />
..social media gives possibilities of creating your own PLN (personal learning network). For me (Esa), Twitter has been a great tool for that for the last few years."
teaching  finland  education  professionalism  davidwarlick  esakukkasniemi  equality  disparity  respect  2011  testing  assessment  pln  socialmedia  economics  schools  policy  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Getting Serious About Reimagining Learning in the Digital Age | DMLcentral
"As things stand right now, unless participatory media takes a deliberate step into classrooms & into testing data, long-term sustainable funding & adoption seem unlikely."<br />
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"As someone who regularly works with kids outside of schools in after-school & summer programs as well as spending the majority of my days waking up early & scrawling on a whiteboard, there is a significant mode of participation to which young people have become unnecessarily acculturated. With literally tens of thousands of hours spent being conditioned to facing forward & remaining in seats, we have created factory-minded young people who need to be gently provoked. This work takes time & trust; once those two things are present, a classroom of enthused minds is limited only by imagination.<br />
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Years after its implementation, I still get messages from former students about how the seven weeks they spent learning through and playing the Black Cloud game made an impact on their day-to-day lives."
education  dml  digitalmedia  digital  media  internet  learning  change  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  assessment  henryjenkins  anterogarcia  2011  schools  afterschoolprograms  participatory  participatoryculture  digitaldivide  participationgap  schooliness  industrialschooling  gamechanging  funding  k12  publicschools  quest2learn  cv  innovation  collaboration  socialemotionallearning  trust  engagement  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Well, Duh! -- Ten Obvious Truths That We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring
1. Much of the material students are required to memorize is soon forgotten; 2. Just knowing a lot of facts doesn’t mean you’re smart; 3. Students are more likely to learn what they find interesting; 4. Students are less interested in whatever they’re forced to do and more enthusiastic when they have some say; 5. Just because doing x raises standardized test scores doesn’t mean x should be done; 6. Students are more likely to succeed in a place where they feel known and cared about; 7. We want children to develop in many ways, not just academically; 8. Just because a lesson (or book, or class, or test) is harder doesn't mean it's better; 9. Kids aren’t just short adults; 10. Substance matters more than labels"
education  alfiekohn  testing  discipline  interestdriven  teaching  standardizedtesting  learning  schools  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  memorization  toshare  facts  understanding  meaning  interests  coercion  childhood  parenting  policy  assessment  measurement  cv  progressive  classroommanagement  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Jonah Lehrer on Problems With SATs, GREs, the NFL Combine and Other Performance Tests | Head Case - WSJ.com
"Though the SAT does a decent job of predicting the grades of college freshmen—the test accounts for about 12% of the individual variation in grade point average—it is much less effective at predicting levels of achievement after graduation. Professional academic tests suffer from the same flaw. A study by the University of Michigan Law School, for instance, found that LSAT scores bore virtually no relationship to career success as measured by levels of income, life satisfaction or public service."<br />
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"The reason maximal measures are such bad predictors is rooted in what these tests don't measure. It turns out that many of the most important factors for life success are character traits, such as grit and self-control, and these can't be measured quickly."<br />
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"The larger lesson is that we've built our society around tests of performance that fail to predict what really matters: what happens once the test is over."
education  teaching  testing  gre  sat  standardizedtesting  2011  jonahlehrer  tcsnmy  whatmatters  predictions  measurement  well-being  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  assessment  recommendations  learning  perseverance  self-control  nfl  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Obama's Policies Under Fire: Department of Ed Responds - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
"On Monday night I posted a blog pointing out that President Obama's remarks at a town hall meeting seemed to undermine Department of Education policies. I received a request for a correction to my post from Justin Hamilton, Press Secretary to Secretary Duncan. He agreed to answer some questions for me, which I posted earlier today. Note that in my questions, I included President Obama's remarks. Mr. Hamilton has removed those quotes in his reply."
education  testing  standardizedtesting  barackobama  2011  arneduncan  justinhamilton  policy  rttt  nclb  learning  schools  performance  assessment  accountability  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance
"Interestingly, this has not become big news in China, a country that loves to celebrate its international achievement. I had thought for sure China’s major media outlets would be all over the story. But to my surprise, I have not found the story covered in big newspapers or other mainstream media outlets. I have been diligently reading xinhuanet.com, the official web portal for Xinhua News Agency, China’s state-controlled media organization, but have yet found the story on the front page or on its education columns. Instead, I found a story that has caught the attention of many readers (in Chinese) that provides the real reason behind Chinese students’ top performance.<br />
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The story, entitled A Helpless Mother Complains about Extra Classes Online, Students Say They Have Become Stupid Before Graduation, follows a mother’s online posting complaining about how her child’s school’s excessive academic load have caused serious physical and psychological damages:"
education  china  pisa  testing  standardizedtesting  policy  arneduncan  2010  yongzhao  assessment  politics  international  well-being  singapore  korea  japan  hongkong  tcsnmy  schools  teaching  learning  rttt  nclb  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: The Big Lies (Part One)
"standardized testing measures compliance…<br />
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In order to have a standardized test, you must have a single view of what something means…Not only that, you must have a single idea of what human development means at a fixed point.<br />
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What standardized testing measures is how a student complies with a fictional human "average" built according to the expectations of a societal elite…<br />
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This sounds nice, a single standard, that "high expectations for all" newspeak phrase. But what it means is that your children - not born rich to two parents with doctorates from Ivy League schools, raised with multigenerational support and in small-class-size private schools - will never be able to catch up or keep up. <br />
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Measuring human growth & development is not like measuring the reproduction of a single prototype on an assembly line. It is a complex system of helping to figure out where a student is, and how to help them get where they are going."
innovation  assessment  competition  edreform  reform  education  policy  rttt  nclb  standardizedtesting  testing  standards  standardization  2011  publicschools  humandevelopment  irasocol  learning  measurement  compliance  unschooling  deschooling  schools  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Sal Kahn Out To Disrupt Education | O'DonnellWeb
[Kahn:] we should “decouple credentialing from learning.” Instead of handing out degrees, standardized assessments would be measure of employee competence.<br />
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While I’m 110% behind idea of separating education & credentialing, I’m not sure standardized assessments are the answer. Human beings are not standardized…we should stop pretending a test score or diploma has any real predictive ability regarding human behavior. A teacher that is passionate is far more valuable than [one] that aced test & got diploma. But you can’t measure passion, you can only observe it.<br />
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[Kahn:] lectures would become homework & teacher tutoring would occur during class time.<br />
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Is there any larger waste of time in the education establishment than making 20-200 students assemble in room to listen to instructor ramble on from memorized notes? If you can’t interact w/ instructor there is no reason to bother being in the same room…"
chriso'donnell  teaching  learning  salkhan  education  standards  standardization  standardizedtesting  passion  schools  memorization  lectures  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  diplomas  credentials  assessment  truelearning  lcproject  tcsnmy  competency  khanacademy  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
wounded by school | www.kirstenolson.org | Kirsten Olson is an author, teacher, consultant www.oldsowconsulting.com
"controversial new book says the way we educate millions of American children alienates students from a fundamental pleasure in learning, & that pleasure in learning is essential to real engagement, creativity, intellectual entrepreneurship, & a well lived life.<br />
Based on almost a decade of intensive autobiographical interviews w/ 100+ "ordinary" students, teachers, & parents, Wounded By School describes some of the dilemmas of those in school now. Students talk about intensive boredom & daily disengagement, while knowing that school "matters" more than ever.  Students & teachers describe a grinding lack of meaning in their work, combined w/ intensive labeling, tracking & shrink-wrapping of learners based on cursory tests & poor understanding of many kinds of minds.<br />
Wounded By School identifies 7 kinds of common school wounds, & tells stories of those who have experienced them…Wounds of Creativity…Compliance…Rebelliousness…That Numb…Underestimation<br />
…Perfectionism…of the Average"
education  books  creativity  toread  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  learning  teaching  schools  policy  kirstenolson  via:irasocol  us  agesegregation  sorting  tracking  assessment  diversity  boredom  woundedbyschool  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Techno Constructivist: The #Edreform Paradox
"Schooling & education are not the same thing & are often at odds with each other. Instruction does not necessarily beget learning but it did for most of those who instruct. Technology has changed what it is learners need schools for. Policies are shaped largely by those who needed schools to provide something different for them in the past than they are needed for learners now. Policies shape what schools do & provide/dictate how we measure success. How we measure a school's success determines what gets taught & cut. What schools do & how they are assessed often lead to a confusion btwn what makes for good instruction & what makes for good learning & policy mandates this condition. Therefore, the actual purpose of school & purpose most people believe it is for are not the same… Those who enter into the business of schooling will likely come from the ranks who were rewarded under this system & thus perpetuate the cycle driving the wedge further between schooling & education."
education  policy  us  technology  success  assessment  measurement  learning  deschooling  unschooling  tcsnmy  lcproject  credentials  business  data  datadrivenmismanagement  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Jiang Xueqin: The Test Chinese Schools Still Fail - WSJ.com
"Shanghai's stellar results on PISA are a symptom of the problem. Tests are less relevant to concrete life and work skills than the ability to write a coherent essay, which requires being able to identify a problem, break it down to its constituent parts, analyze it from multiple angles and assemble a solution in a succinct manner to communicate across cultures and time. These "critical thinking" skills are what Chinese students need to learn if they are to become globally competitive.<br />
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So the first step of education reform is trying to teach students who are good test takers to be good essay writers. To write well in English, students need to understand concepts such as thesis and argument, structure and support, coherence and flow, tone and audience, diction and syntax—concepts that are barely introduced in Chinese schools. One way we'll know we're succeeding in changing China's schools is when those PISA scores come down."
education  china  creativity  schools  assessment  standardizedtesting  testing  pisa  shanghai  policy  criticalthinking  writing  learning  tcsnmy  jiangxueqin  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Myth of eLearning: There Is No 'There' There -- Campus Technology
"Many institutions are already moving toward more authentic learning & assessment; many faculty members adopting problem-based learning & experiential learning. More major programs …are demanding internships. The move is already underway toward using campus resources more fully, making students' learning experiences more holistic & pertinent to needs of employment patterns…<br />
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…gradual shift is toward using full resources of campus & away from classroom-centric thinking…away from learning autonomously to learning collaboratively…all courses requiring more writing.…students addressing problems or cases or field studies or experiments that are not scaffolded by teachers.<br />
Now that we have left behind simplistic 1-dimensional, & kind of depressing, specter of "delivering content" as idea of learning, & have management tools to release learning from classroom-centricity, higher ed will continue to thrive. The US higher ed enterprise is unequalled in the world…and…getting even better."
education  highereducation  highered  learning  experiential  experientiallearning  problemsolving  problem-basedlearning  assessment  authenticity  holistic  autonomy  deschooling  unschooling  lcproject  tcsnmy  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The 7 Fascinating Education Ideas of the Year - voiceofsandiego.org: Schooled: The Education Blog
"Solving Einstein's Algebra Problem [Einstein Academy], Letting the Kids Make the Rules [Innovations Academy], English Learners Who Seem to Know English [Pacific Beach Middle School], Small (Change) Is Beautiful [Euclid Elementary], The Data War [SDUSD in opposition to RttT], Wording Up Without the Dictionary [Grant Barrett, SDUSD], One Class Fits All [Correia Middle School in Point Loma drops tracking]"
sandiego  2010  emilyalpert  einsteinacademy  innovationsacademy  algebra  math  teaching  learning  sdusd  language  languageacquisition  change  euclidelementary  data  rttt  vocabulary  tracking  democracy  democratic  schools  biliteracy  assessment  collaboration  teacherretention  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Chapel Hill Campus Takes On Grade Inflation - NYTimes.com
"“It’s complicated, it’s controversial, and it runs into campus political opposition from all sorts of directions you might not anticipate,” Mr. Nassirian said, adding that transcripts with too much extra information can become unwieldy.<br />
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Studies of grade inflation have found that private universities generally give higher grades than public ones, and that humanities courses award higher grades than science and math classes.<br />
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Mr. Perrin’s concern with grading standards began 15 years ago, when he was a teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley.<br />
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“I would grade papers, run the grades by the professor and then give them out, and long lines of students would appear outside my office to say I graded too hard,” Mr. Perrin said. Now, at North Carolina, Mr. Perrin is convinced that grading problems are pervasive."
grades  grading  gradeinflation  highereducation  highered  teaching  economics  assessment  transcipts  gpa  2010  unc  education  learning  evaluation  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The truth about failure in US schools | Paul Thomas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"Progress is impossible as long as debate about educational underachievement glosses over basic social facts like poverty"

"Throughout the world, the full picture of any nation's schools reflects the social realities of that country; when schools appear to be failures, the facts show that social failures (the conditions of children's lives outside of school) are driving the educational data. And we will certainly never address these social failures – and the truth about our schools – if political leaders and media voices refuse even to say the word 'poverty', while promoting simplistic manipulation of data."
assessment  failure  education  sociology  nclb  rttt  policy  us  poverty  society  schools  publicschools  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
At the Core of the Apple Store: Images of Next Generation Learning (full-length and abridged article) | Big Picture
"What are the essential features of the Apple Store’s learning culture?<br />
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* The learning experience is highly personalized and focused on the interests and needs of the individual customer.<br />
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* Customers can make mistakes with little risk of failure or embarrassment. Thinking and tinkering with the help of a staff member provide opportunities for deep learning.<br />
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* Challenges are real and embedded in the customer’s learning and work.<br />
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* Assessment is built right into the learning, focusing specifically on what needs to be accomplished.<br />
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A disruptive innovation? We think so. The Apple Store has created a new type of learning environment that allows individuals to learn anything, at any time, at any level, from experts, expert practitioners, and peers."
apple  applestore  learning  schooldesign  innovation  via:cervus  education  lcproject  technology  williamgibson  geniusbar  retail  studioclassroom  openstudio  thirdplaces  thirdspace  problemsolving  teaching  unschooling  deschooling  personalization  individualized  challenge  disruption  assessment  deeplearning  21stcenturylearning  learningspaces  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Videos tagged 'alfiekohn' on Vimeo
(For now), a set of videos of Alfie Kohn speaking at Constructing Modern Knowledge 2008 as posted by Gary Stager
alfiekohn  constructivism  teacherasfacilitator  teacherasmasterlearner  education  teaching  learning  motivation  assessment  grading  grades  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Pedagogical Promiscuity and "Assessment for Learning" - Artichoke
"What kind of “assessment for learning” is appropriate in the age of Google and Wikipedia? Facebook and You Tube? Smart phones and text messaging? Twitter and blogging? (after Manovich on Soft Cinema).…<br />
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It seems that exposure to the multiliteracies most advantage those who are already advantaged.<br />
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There is a lot more thinking needed here – but it seems plausible that thinking critically about what kind of “assessment for learning” is appropriate in the age of [insert your preferred descriptor] is useful thinking. It may protect us (and our students) from futurist induced pedagogical promiscuity next year – by preventing the indiscriminate adoption of too many different pedagogical approaches."
assessment  learning  education  openeducation  openphd  artichoke  affluence  wealth  disparity  schools  literacy  literacies  technology  knowledge  curriculum  future  policy  digital  digitallearning  blogs  blogging  commenting  peerreview  peer-assessment  newmedia  charlesleadbeater  twitter  usergenerated  content  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Change of Basis: Shift, paradigm, shift! [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/2071183818/most-cheating-i-truly-believe-is-undertaken-as]
“Most cheating is undertaken as an act of desperation, a means of coping w/ failure as measured by receipt of lower-than-average academic grades. Cheating is a means of striving to succeed w/in a system which provides extrinsic rewards for optimal performance rather than intrinsic rewards for authentic mastery & authorship. I cannot but believe that the vast majority of students would welcome an academic system in which the goal is not to earn high marks but rather to learn, and that students accustomed to this system would see no need to game the system by cheating. I’m not so naive as to suppose that every student will respond well: there will always be those so acculturated by 13+ years of a largely competitive educational system that it’s in their blood to fight tooth and nail for every last percentage point that might tip them from a B+ to an A-…but I believe that even those who are very comfortable with this traditional system will abandon it if given the chance to do so.”
assessment  cheating  grades  grading  motivation  tcsnmy  alfiekohn  learning  competition  change  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The Strength of Weak Ties » Retrofit. A Twitter Rubric?
"Why do teachers have to own the tool?<br />
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If I’m a student, I now have a choice, but the wrong one. Use tool as I see fit for my needs, or succumb to wishes of teacher who wants me to use it as they have defined it, all in name of giving grade…<br />
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We all know what they’ll do.<br />
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But why not give them real choice? Maybe they’ll use Twitter, Facebook, index cards. Why limit choices? Why limit how they use a particular tool? Why be so prescriptive?<br />
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I’d rather think educators would give students a palette to choose from. You select how you want to represent your ideas, & you describe for me how well they worked, or didn’t. Describe for me your growth throughout learning experience, & role particular tool or tools of your choosing…There’s your assessment.<br />
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If you haven’t see the work of Cormier, Siemens, Downes & Kop in their PLENK2010 course…It’s a refreshing & innovative approach that emphasizes student choice & empowerment in how they choose to learn, & represent understanding."
rubrics  teaching  learning  assessment  connectivism  davidjakes  twitter  tcsnmy  choice  ownership  options  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Can’t play, won’t play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play
"That problem being that gamification isn’t gamification at all. What we’re currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience. Points and badges have no closer a relationship to games than they do to websites and fitness apps and loyalty cards. They’re great tools for communicating progress and acknowledging effort, but neither points nor badges in any way constitute a game. Games just use them – as primary school teachers, military hierarchies and coffee shops have for centuries – to help people visualise things they might otherwise lose track of. They are the least important bit of a game, the bit that has the least to do with all of the rich cognitive, emotional and social drivers which gamifiers are intending to connect with."
gamification  pointsification  gaming  games  motivation  assessment  measurement  terminology  play  badges  points  progress  communication  gamedesign  visualization  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
"This simple writing exercise may not seem like anything ground-breaking, but its effects speak for themselves. In a university physics class, Akira Miyake from the University of Colorado used it to close the gap between male and female performance. In the university’s physics course, men typically do better than women but Miyake’s study shows that this has nothing to do with innate ability. With nothing but his fifteen-minute exercise, performed twice at the beginning of the year, he virtually abolished the gender divide and allowed the female physicists to challenge their male peers."
gender  gendergap  science  mathematics  psychology  physics  women  inequality  education  experiments  assessment  confidence  highereducation  prejudice  values  stereotypes  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Making Student Blogs Pay Off with Blog Audits - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Students are often quite surprised to revisit their ideas—ideas they frequently don’t remember even having or writing—and discovering the value of their own insights. Their blogging about blogging invariably ends up being a pivotal moment in the students’ relationship to the class blog. It’s when they begin to have a sense of ownership over their ideas, a kind of accountability that carries over into their class discussion and other written work. It’s also when they truly realize that they’re engaged in a thoughtful, thought-provoking endeavor. It’s when the blog becomes more than a blog."
blogs  blogging  tcsnmy  writing  assessment  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
T H E   B R O O K L Y N   F R E E   S C H O O L  -  F A Q
"How does the school ensure students learn the "basics?"

What is meant by "basics?" This question in & of itself represents core principle of BFS. A certain segment of society has sought, & succeeded, in imposing view of what is important for all students in US, & indeed in much of world, to learn in school. We don't presume to know what is best for each individual student to learn now &…in next 5-10 years…

Does the school do any student evaluations?

Yes. We do not use report cards, grades, rankings, or any comparative or competitive evaluations, nor value-based evals. We utilize Prospect Descriptive Processes, method using purely descriptive, non-judgmental observations of all aspects of student's life & work…combined into descriptive review of child wherein we seek to more fully understand & get to know [them] & discuss ways to foster their growth & development…

What about my child's past school history?

We do not take into account any of a child's past ed experience…"

[photos of the Brooklyn Free School: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loika/sets/72157624827835711/ ]
education  schools  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  brooklynfreeschool  us  nyc  brooklyn  learning  evaluation  assessment  admissions  schooling  schooliness  teaching  democratic  alternative  freeschools  sudburyschools  sumerhill  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Designed to Fail - Education in America: Part Five
"If those who seek to follow the Arne Duncan model of school reform want to argue with me about the inherent colonialism/racism of their plans, then perhaps they should begin by discussing why they won't embrace "real reform" - the re-design of our educational system.…No tests. No grading. No age-based grades. Few classrooms. Few classes. Teacher and learner agency. No core curriculum. No particular time schedule. The complete opposite of RheEducation…The concepts were student empowerment, teacher freedom, community, and authentic assessment…The political problem is that embracing these known understandings of education requires abandoning the filtering system of "education" we have used in America since the Civil War. Embracing these ideas would require that we - as a society - elevate teachers in pay and respect to or above the level of lawyers, bankers, and perhaps medical doctors."
irasocol  education  history  us  newrochellehighschool  grades  grading  openschools  schools  agesegregation  studentdirected  freedom  equality  elitism  seymourpapert  inequality  wealth  standards  standardizedtesting  larrycuban  markzuckerberg  billgates  elibroad  charters  dianeravitch  society  perpetuation  culture  power  policy  politics  children  parenting  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  waitingforsuperman  williamalcott  incomegap  teaching  learning  assessment  neilpostman  unions  salaries  racism  michellerhee  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Designed to Fail - Education in America: Part Four
"By establishing "measuring sticks" which declare their own superiority, the wealthy and powerful - the Ivy Leaguersof America - get to win before the race they so enjoy is run. And by winning, they get to preserve the fruits of victory for themselves and their offspring - the best schools, the Ivy League educations, the top-paying jobs in the economy, and the agenda-setting jobs in government…<br />
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While "white" kids get creativity and stories in their early grades, teaching them about the world and giving them dreams, "poor" kids get KIPP and scripted instruction, chants and memorizations. If they ever get past that, they find themselves so far behind their "white" peers that continuing the race seems genuinely hopeless."
irasocol  education  us  history  wealth  power  inequality  woodrowwilson  dianeravitch  ellwoodcubberley  henrybarnard  disparity  johntaylorgatto  thomasjefferson  kipp  standards  standardizedtesting  perpetuation  colonialism  unschooling  deschooling  policy  politics  lcproject  waitingforsuperman  learning  sorting  teaching  incomegap  assessment  grades  grading  culture  society  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
The End of Education Is the Dawn of Learning | Co.Design
"new learning emerging all round world. Regions & communities throughout world are embracing & developing new "ingredients" of learning: superclasses of 90-120 students; vertical learning groups; stage not age; schools w/in schools; project-based work; exhibition-based assessments; collaborative learning teams; mixed-age mentoring; children as teachers; teachers as learners… Obviously, in world where every culture, context & community is unique…no one-size-fits-all solution, however enlightened it might be.<br />
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…simple rule of 3 for learning spaces: No more than 3 walls so there is never full enclosure & space is multifaceted. No fewer than 3 points of focus so "stand-and-deliver" model gives way to increasingly varied groups learning & presenting together (requires radical rethinking of furniture). Ability to accommodate 3 teachers/adults w/ children…old standard of ~30 students in box robbed children of so many effective practices; larger spaces allow for better alternatives"
stephenheppell  via:cervus  schools  schooldesign  tcsnmy  lcproject  learning  education  studioclassroom  mixed-age  verticallearninggroups  superclasses  teacherasmasterlearner  studentasteacher  exhibition-basedassessments  assessment  presentationsoflearning  sageonthestage  furniture  design  pedagogy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Effective Assessment in a Digital Age ~ Stephen's Web
"What does effective assessment look like in the digital age? This post links to a guide to technology-enhanced assessment and feedback (PDF, 64 pages) as well as a podcast. There's a lot of good stuff here, including for example an articulation of four major perspectives on assessment: associative, constructivist, social constructivist, and situative (see the diagram below). This is an excellent report, full of examples, case studies, and practical guides."
assessment  stephendownes  constructivism  socialconstructivism  situationist  association  teaching  learning  education  tcsnmy  lcproject  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com
"Doyle was, at 54, a veteran teacher and had logged 32 years in schools all over Manhattan, where he primarily taught art and computer graphics. In the school, which was called Quest to Learn, he was teaching a class, Sports for the Mind, which every student attended three times a week. It was described in a jargony flourish on the school’s Web site as “a primary space of practice attuned to new media literacies, which are multimodal and multicultural, operating as they do within specific contexts for specific purposes.” What it was, really, was a class in technology and game design."
games  gaming  videogames  quest2learn  schools  education  tcsnmy  assessment  gamedesign  play  learning  lcproject  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Without Geometry, Life is Pointless: Habits of Mind [via: http://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/22986117389]
"This is still a work in progress (and feedback would be greatly appreciated), but I've decided to explicitly teach (and assess...more on that later) 4 "categories" of mathematics this year.<br />
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1. Skills (I know how to...)<br />
2. Concepts (I understand and can explain why...)<br />
3. Connections (I see and can explain the relationship between...)<br />
4. Mathematical Habits of Mind (I can use and appreciate the process of...)"
math  mathematics  teaching  habitsofmind  assessment  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
How to Create Nonreaders
"The best teachers, I find, spend at least some of their evenings smacking themselves on the forehead – figuratively, at least – as they reflect on something that happened during the day. “Why did I decide that, when I could have asked the kids?” &, thinking about some feature of the course yet to come: “Is this a choice I should be making for the students rather than w/ them?” One Washington, DC creative writing teacher was pleased w/ himself for announcing to students that it was up to them to decide how to create a literary magazine – until he realized later that he had incrementally reasserted control. “I had taken a potentially empowering project & turned it into a showcase of what [I] could do.” It takes insight & guts to catch oneself at what amounts to an exercise in pseudodemocracy. Keeping hold of power – overtly for traditionalists, perhaps more subtly for those of us who think of ourselves as enlightened progressives – is a hell of a lot easier than giving it away."
pseudodemocracy  alfiekohn  democracy  education  learning  motivation  reading  research  teaching  topost  toshare  tcsnmy  progressive  schools  writing  coercion  deomcratic  student-centered  studentdirected  student-led  unschooling  deschooling  2010  majoritarianism  compromise  consensus  decisionmaking  rewards  punishment  assessment  autonomy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Education Week: All of My Favorite Students Cheat
"One recurrent theme in these students’ comments is a sense that the deck is stacked against them. They see a prestigious college as the only gateway to a good life, and they believe they need stellar transcripts and mile-long lists of extracurricular activities to get accepted. Students taking three to six advanced-placement classes, playing sports, competing on robotics teams and at music recitals, and signing up for SAT-prep classes almost always turn to cheating as a survival tactic."<br />
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"The kids themselves, however, are showing a way out. It seems significant that they want to talk about cheating with adults like me, a teacher and authority figure. And even the most strident defenders of the status quo among them admit what they are doing is bad. They would not do it, they say, “if the school worked better.”"<br />
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What we adults need to come to terms with, I think, is our own insecurity…"
cheating  teaching  dishonesty  schools  tcsnmy  competitiveness  competition  admissions  colleges  universities  assessment  learning  motivation  insecurity  parenting  toshare  topost  honesty  trust  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Turning Children into Data
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While some education conferences are genuinely inspiring, others serve mostly to demonstrate how even intelligent educators can be remarkably credulous, nodding agreeably at descriptions of programs that ought to elicit fury or laughter, avidly copying down hollow phrases from a consultant’s PowerPoint presentation, awed by anything that’s borrowed from the business world or involves digital technology.<br />
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Many companies and consultants thrive on this credulity, and also on teachers’ isolation, fatalism, and fear (of demands by clueless officials to raise test scores at any cost). With a good dose of critical thinking and courage, a willingness to say “This is bad for kids and we won’t have any part of it,” we could drive these outfits out of business -- and begin to take back our schools."
alfiekohn  assessment  children  education  testing  innovation  change  reform  2010  tcsnmy  lcproject  discovery  learning  teaching  autonomy  crapdetection  accountability  measurement  data  curriculum  meaning  achievement  purpose  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
EduDemic » No More Final Exams At Harvard: Is Your School Next?
"According to Harvard Magazine, final exams are “going the way of the dodo.”<br />
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Last spring, a mere 23 percent of the school’s 1,137 undergraduate courses gave exams, the magazine reports. And a new faculty vote dictates that a professor must actively decide whether or not to give a final within the first week of class — historically, it had always been a given that a class would have a test at the end of its run.<br />
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The impetus behind exam extinction? Among other factors, professors questioned their value as assessment tools and disliked the responsibility of proctoring them.<br />
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The Harvard Crimson reported in April that professors are increasingly being prompted to consider creative final exam alternatives under the school’s new curriculum, adopted in 2009."
harvard  finalexams  assessment  evaluation  change  2010  testing  tcsnmy  teaching  learning  lcproject  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
coupled-inquiry cycle: A teacher concerns-based model for effective student inquiry, The | Science Educator | Find Articles at BNET
"During course of designing & facilitating teacher inquiry workshops, concerns voiced by participants, & reinforced by research literature, led to evolution of inquiry model that addresses many reservations teachers express about using inquiry as a teaching strategy…specifically addresses issues of control over content & curriculum goals; teachers' need to "lecture" to make sure students ''get it"; & control over safety, time, & materials. The coupled inquiry cycle endeavors to balance these needs, while still adhering to vision of true student-centered "full" inquiry, by combining or "coupling" together "teacher guided" inquiries w/ "open" inquiries that are completely student-driven. These "coupled inquiries" are embedded in cycle based on traditional learning cycle models, such as 5E model of Bybee (1997) & problem solving models, such as Search, Solve, Create, & Share (SSCS) model (Pizzini, 1989). A description of the components of the coupled inquiry cycle is as follows:…"
inquiry  assessment  teaching  science  tcsnmy  via:carwaiseto  inquiry-basedlearning  learning  projectbasedlearning  exploration  curiosity  content  curriculum  control  coupled-inquiry  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
TechSmith | Screencast.com, online video sharing, 2009-09-17_0950
"The Assessment Scheme to Rule Them All" — Kate Nowak on Concept Checklists
katenowak  grades  grading  assessment  education  math  screencast  mathematics  teaching  sbg  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Newmark's Door: Goodhart's Law
"Goodhart's Law: "…when you attempt to pick a few easily defined metrics as proxy measures for the success of any plan or policy, you immediately distract or bait people into pursuing the metrics, rather than pursuing the success of the policy itself."<br />
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Better: Andy Grove supposedly…"For every goal you put in front of someone, you should also put in place a counter-goal to restrict gaming of the first goal."<br />
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Even better: economist Glen Whitman wrote: "With just an iota of economics training, most people catch on to importance of incentives. "Aha! To get people to do what we want, all we have to do is reward good stuff & punish bad stuff!" Alas, the world is not so simple. People don't always respond to incentives in the ways you might predict. What distinguishes good economic thinking from bad is recognition of the subtle, creative, & often unforeseen ways that people respond to incentives. Ignoring the complex operation of incentives is recipe for unintended consequences."
goodhartslaw  incentives  andygrove  glenwhitman  craignewmark  motivation  tcsnmy  economics  success  metrics  policy  goals  assessment  measurement  via:lukeneff  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Fisch Algebra 2010-11: Skill List
"These are the skills that are important enough to assess individually. Some skills will include sub-skills that aren’t assessed individually. This is not necessarily the order the skills will be assessed in." [More at: http://fischalgebra1011.blogspot.com/p/course-expectations.html]
algebra  math  assessment  conceptchecklists  mathematics  teaching  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson - Heinemann Publishing
"The conventional wisdom in English education is that rubrics are the best & easiest tools for assessment. But sometimes it's better to be unconventional. Maja Wilson offers a new perspective on rubrics & argues for a better, more responsive way to think about assessing writers' progress.<br />
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Though you may sense a disconnect between student-centered teaching & rubric-based assessment, you may still use rubrics for convenience or for want of better alternatives. RRiWA gives you the impetus to make a change, demonstrating how rubrics can hurt kids & replace professional decision making with an inauthentic pigeonholing that stamps standardization onto a notably nonstandard process. With an emphasis on thoughtful planning & teaching, Wilson shows you how to reconsider writing assessment so that it aligns more closely with high-quality instruction & avoids the potentially damaging effects of rubrics."
majawilson  rubrics  assessment  writing  teaching  education  tcsnmy  evaluation  alfiekohn  standardization  process  books  pedagogy  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
On Education - Equity of Test Is Debated as Children Compete for Gifted Kindergarten - NYTimes.com
"That approach [decentralized admissions process] was criticized as vulnerable to political manipulation & racial favoritism, since districts could take into account increasing diversity in making selections.
testing  education  learning  kindergarten  diversity  race  standardizedtesting  gifted  testprep  money  class  influence  nyc  schools  sorting  tracking  favoritism  assessment  evaluation  equity  havesandhavenots 
august 2010 by robertogreco
The Answer Sheet - Harvard profs dropping final exams
"Final exams are probably not anybody’s primary concern at the moment, but it is worth noting that the July-August edition of Harvard Magazine reports that many Harvard professors will no longer routinely require final exams.
testing  assessment  evaluation  harvard  colleges  universities 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Constructing Modern Knowledge Reflections - Practical Theory
"luxurious learning enviro=time, resources, permission to play & learn, talk to one another...read, listen, build...we didn't have schedule, we had appointments...
unconferences  cmk  conferences  chrislehman  deborahmeier  progressive  tcsnmy  toshare  topost  learning  understanding  gumption  problemsolving  process  projectbasedlearning  projects  tinkering  assessment  acknowledgement  schooldesign  unschooling  deschooling  proceesoverproduct  play  meaning  2010  obstacles  patience  flexibility  complexity  lcproject  chrislehmann 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Sam Chaltain: Dear Mr. President: Just Go With the Flow ["research that breaks happiness down to four qualities: perceived control, perceived progress, a sense of connectedness, and a sense of meaning and purpose..."]
"Tony Hsieh gets this. He realizes the worst thing you can do, in an organizational context, is constrain people by micromanaging their activities. In the same way a soccer manager would look ridiculous by attempting to control the game from the sidelines -- his work is largely done by the time the game starts, and the rest is up to the players -- a business CEO must know what shared structures, & what individual freedoms, are essential. ...
samchaltain  zappos  schools  teaching  management  administration  tonyhsieh  values  structure  organizations  learning  incentives  assessment  rewards  tcsnmy  lcproject  hierarchy  control  worldcup  metaphors  2010  happiness  well-being  progress  meaning  purpose  connectedness  belonging  perception  motivation  publischools  arneduncan  rttt  sports  football  soccer  flow  rhythm 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Annual Job Review Is 'Total Baloney,' Expert Says : NPR [Sounds much like the arguement against grades and report cards.]
"It's time to finally put the performance review out of its misery.
performance  hr  culture  working  assessment  evaluation  management  administration  grading  grades  society  accountability  performancereviews  jobreviews  work  tcsnmy  hierarchy 
july 2010 by robertogreco
VUE 24: Darling Hammond Article: Steady Work: How Finland Is Building a Strong Teaching and Learning System
"Indeed, there are no external standardized tests used to rank students or schools in Finland, and most teacher feedback to students is in narrative form, emphasizing descriptions of their learning progress and areas for growth (Sahlberg 2007). As is the case with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exams in the United States, samples of students are evaluated on open-ended assessments at the end of the second and ninth grades to inform curriculum and school investments. The focus is on using information to drive learning and problem solving, rather than punishments." [One quote does not give sense of the article. This is just one component of the Finnish edcation system as discussed by Darling-Hammond.]
education  finland  policy  politics  change  development  reform  learning  assessment  narratives  tcsnmy  evaluations  standardizedtesting  lindadarling-hammond 
july 2010 by robertogreco
About me – confused of calcutta
"I’m passionate about education. When I retire from normal work I will build a school. A school that is built for the 21st century, with the requisite connectivity, hardware and software infrastructure. A school that’s willing to borrow teachers rather than own them, as long as the teachers see what they do as their calling, their vocation. A school where students are encouraged to use the web in class, where critiquing the teacher is accepted. Where critiquing students is also accepted. Where the focus is on equality of opportunity rather than outcome; where diversity is celebrated. Where learning takes place. Which means mistakes get made. Where making mistakes is encouraged." [Sounds a lot like what we're doing at TCSNMY.]
jprangaswami  education  schools  schooldesign  mistakes  failure  risk  risktaking  technology  cv  learning  tcsnmy  constructivecriticism  teaching  vocation  diversity  outcome  lcproject  assessment  evaluation  process 
july 2010 by robertogreco
10 ways to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning… « What Ed Said
"1. Don’t make all the decisions 2. Don’t play guess what’s in my head 3. Talk less 4. Model behaviors and attitudes that promote learning. 5. Ask for feedback 6. Test less 7. Encourage goal setting and reflection. 8. Don’t over plan. 9. Focus on learning, not work 10. Organise student led conferences"

[Sound advice. I'm happy to report that tcsnmy follows it.]
[Via: http://twitter.com/gcouros/status/17523402623 ]
education  leadership  learning  management  responsibility  teaching  technology  tcsnmy  motivation  unschooling  deschooling  inquiry  inquiry-basedlearning  assessment  evaluation  conferences  reflection  goals  planning  testing  feedback  conversation  listening  blogging  students 
july 2010 by robertogreco
dy/dan » Impatience With Irresolution, pt 1: Part Of The Problem
"Nowadays, I don't much care what they answer. I'm disinterested. I want to get past their answer. My response to their answer is an automated "Why?" That's where the action is.
assessment  learning  patience  students  irresolution  uncertainty  ambiguity  danmeyer  glvo  tcsnmy  questions  questioning  pedagogy  socraticmethod  relationships  answers  davidmilch  belesshelpful  storytelling  narrative 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Weblogg-ed » New Assessments for New Learning [The first quote, the list, is a summary of Douglas Reeves. Comments are good too. I like what Gary Stager has to say.]
"*Learn (What did you know? What are you able to do?)

*Understand (What is the evidence that you can apply learning in one domain to another?)

*Share (How did you use what you have learned to help a person, the class, the community or the planet?)

*Explore (What did you learn beyond the limits of the lesson? What mistakes did you make, and how did you learn from them?)

*Create (What new ideas, knowledge, or understanding can you offer?)"
assessment  willrichardson  teaching  learning  education  standards  reflection  douglasreeves  reform  unschooling  deschooling  conditioning  unlearning  experience  tcsnmy  lcproject  understanding  garystager 
june 2010 by robertogreco
for the love of learning: Grading Goslings
"While it is true that grading is a relatively new invention in human learning, it is pretty safe to say that whether we are the teacher or the student, grading has become an anchor for us, and that anchor brings with it long-term effects on our willingness to even imagine an education system without grading.
grades  grading  experience  teaching  learning  assessment  tcsnmy  change  gamechanging  conditioning  authenticity  joebower 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Think Thank Thunk » “Standards-Based Grading” != “Retesting”
"Everything is an assessment. Once a kid realizes that a hallway conversation can affect their grade (up or down), or that doing something awesome in another class can show you proficiency in some skill that they bombed in your class the previous month (e.g.: presenting well), the kid will get the only important message: Learning is what matters; points are made up currency that have no value outside the school’s walls. Points are a scurge, a charlatan, a menace, and are little more than a necessary evil."
grades  grading  assessment  thinkthankthunk  learning  education  teaching  tcsnmy 
june 2010 by robertogreco
College Admissions and the Essential School | Coalition of Essential Schools
"When schools change curriculum and assessment practices, everyone worries that students will suffer in the college selection process. But most selective colleges say they're used to unusual transcripts, and big universities are looking for new ways to work with schools in change."
education  change  reform  admissions  colleges  universities  highschool  tcsnmy  transcipts  grades  grading  evaluation  assessment  science  physics  biology  chemistry  sequence  committeeoften  curriculum  habitsofmind  kathleencushman  1994  tedsizer  coalitionofessentialschools  competency 
june 2010 by robertogreco
For the Love of Learning: Rubrics - the predetermined space
"When school becomes more about following instructions and less about intellectual discovery, kids feel like this little girl on the bike.
joebower  rubric  assessment  grading  grades  alfiekohn  schools  teaching  motivation  tcsnmy  comments 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Project Zero
"Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels."
art  arts  assessment  professionaldevelopment  criticalthinking  psychology  projectzero  harvard  education  teaching  creativity  learning  language  thinking  tcsnmy  humanism  science  research 
may 2010 by robertogreco
For the Love of Learning: Abolishing Grading
"I have had a number of people ask me to share a 'table-of-contents' for my blog posts on why and how we should abolish grading. Here is a list of blog posts that should help you gain insight into this whole abolishing grading topic. I will add more as I write them."
grades  grading  motivation  pedagogy  assessment  education  teaching  joebower  alfiekohn  tcsnmy  learning  evaluation 
may 2010 by robertogreco
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