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Randy Ziegenfuss

School Change Consulting - The Global Achievement Gap - Tony's new book is now availabl... - 0 views

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learning education technology 21st century skills

shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 10 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 10 Jul 10
     
    Summarized 21st century skills as described in a book by Tony Wagner - The Global Achievement Gap.
Randy Ziegenfuss

How to Design Student Projects Like a Pro | Edutopia - 1 views

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pbl edutopia design projects project based learning

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "With one big idea after another -- from the Apple mouse to more patient-friendly emergency rooms -- the global consulting firm IDEO has built a reputation for innovative thinking."
Randy Ziegenfuss

New Media Literacies - 0 views

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media literacies web2.0 newmedialiteracies education literacy medialiteracy

shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 18 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 18 Jul 10
     
    New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within USC's Annenberg School for Communication, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.
Jennifer Volpato

Kids to Kids International - 0 views

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education learning cbl global children's stories

shared by Jennifer Volpato on 03 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Jennifer Volpato on 03 Aug 10
     
    This site is a reource example of the CBL approach being used in an elementary school. The project has a global initiative of helping children in China and Afghanistan.
Kevin Bush

Standardized testing hurting U.S. education, new book contends | MSU News | Michigan St... - 0 views

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  • flawed policy that threatens to undermine the nation’s strengths of creativity and innovation,
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      this is certainly an understatement, it's all about the programmatic skills of the test, not actually about learning
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      I am always struck by how political leaders who haven't been in the classroom think the answer to making education better is to test more, then punish those schools which perform poorly. The focus has too much been on the test and not the learning going on in the class.
  • an education that respects individual talents and does not dictate what students learn or how teachers teach.
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      absolutely
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      You should check out Ken Robinson's series on creativity in the schools, one of the best TED talks out there.
  • “Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization.”
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  • stuck “teaching to the test”
  • “The essence of his strategy was to stop being creative and imaginative.”
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      how is it that success has now been reduced to what we can prove we know on paper versus what we are creatively able to produce? Standardized testing certainly has been around for my entire education but there was not so much pressure on student performance, school performance, etc.. For some students, our 8th graders for example, it determines honors placement. Standardized test should be a measurement, a snapshot, not the whole picture. Li
  • reward schools for offering a diverse set of opportunities
  • “Most importantly, we need to instill confidence – restore confidence – in our teachers and in our schools, because right now the accountability rhetoric in essence is telling us we don’t trust our educators – that they are not good enough, they are lazy, and that’s not the case.”
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "America's increasing reliance on standardized testing as a yardstick for educational success is a flawed policy that threatens to undermine the nation's strengths of creativity and innovation, according to a provocative new book from a Michigan State University scholar."
Jennifer Volpato

Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Assignment - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • global impact
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      I like this choice of lens.
  • My quandry is with the approach that our legislators take on pitting public and private schools against each other when what we should be doing is working cooperatively to build a better, stronger community of learners that will lead us into a successful future for all.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      How can we participate better in this dialogue? How do we participate now? What do we envision our participation being, lets say in the reauthorization of NCLB?
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      I believe that the creation of teams of teachers, principals, researchers, students, and parents to review, give feedback, and design changes to NCLB would serve as a more successful approach to problem solving the current educational "crisis". When I have a problem to solve I take the grass roots approach, go to the source, research and reflect on the information, I never pretend to know it all. First hand accounts and dialogue are crucial in developing productive change.
  • creating a complete picture of our students and our schools with standardized testing being one aspect, but no the only measurement tool.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      Great vision!
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  • why are we as a nation submitting the results of one method of testing
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      This is an important point you make. It relates to one of our guiding quesitons: What are the impacts of standardized testing? My hunch is more negative than positive.
  • Interesting NPR program on the effects on high NCLB
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      Not sure what you mean here? Can you link to the program?
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      Oops, I added this quickly when I got here in the middle of a conversation with Jamie. I'll try the link again.
Jennifer Volpato

Kids to Kids International - 0 views

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education challenge-based learning

shared by Jennifer Volpato on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Jennifer Volpato on 27 Jul 10
     
    Project example of a global challenge based learning project.
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