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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."
Randy Ziegenfuss

Creating A High Performing Workplace With Games, Social Media, And Virtual Worlds - 0 views

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games gaming educational games learn central elluminate webinar

shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 11 Jul 10
     
    "Get ready to step down from the stage, get out of your faculty cloak,and join the new learner-centric revolution. Forget courses and curriculums. The future of learning is about online conversations and communities, podcasting on the go, and shared immersive-3D virtual-worlds experiences. A new breed of learners is entering the workforce with little patience for traditional "Web 1.0" PowerPoint dronathons and e-learning drudgery. They want to be engaged, in control, and part of the storyline. Leading companies are turbocharging workplace performance with learning and communications that focus on doing, simulating, socializing, playing, sharing, and collaborating. In this session, learn how leading companies are betting that the future of learning won't be built on flat, static webpages but rather in traversable 3-D spaces; think Facebook meets Grand Theft Auto, or a Smurf Village reduction of your classroom."
Bridget Doklan

Take a Deeper Look at Assessment for Understanding | Edutopia - 0 views

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assessment education edutopia projects

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  • Bridget Doklan on 06 Jul 10
     
    "Performance assessments go beyond traditional tests and serve as an important teaching tool."
Jennifer Volpato

Apple - ACOT2 - Understanding of 21st Century Skills and Outcomes - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Volpato on 09 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The most desirable skills: work ethic, collaboration, social responsibility, and critical thinking and problem-solving. Employers also see creativity and innovation as being increasingly important in the future.
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 09 Jul 10
       
      Here it is... what our goals are for our students to be successful in life, not just on the high stakes tests. I think that if we are teaching these critical skills that "... the rest will follow" and we will see big gains in student proficiency.
  • both individual and collaborative problem-solving
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 09 Jul 10
       
      Collaborative... this is significant,no longer focusing on individual student performance, but the performance of a team, a collaborative group. How do we educate the parents of the 21st century to adapt to this new model?
Randy Ziegenfuss

Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Jenn's Persuasive Essay Draft Copy - 0 views

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shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10 - Cached
  • people all calling
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      people are calling (Is that what you meant?)
  • worst of all "failing" schools.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      worst of all, "failing schools."
  • that many of us could have never
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Our students are growing up in a digital age like none of us could have imagined...
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  • School curriculum, having once been almost entirely driven by content, is now at a cross roads, the dawning of a new time, in which we must begin to embrace the ideas of creativity, imagination, teamwork, and publication as key elements in our classroom and curriculum design.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Great sentence...so true. But I'm not sure most educators get it.
  • going
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      delete "going"
  • intro. of
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      delete intro.of
  • s born", "the day I was married"
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      commas appear within the quote "the day my son was born," "the day I was married," etc.
  • "so, what", "who cares what you think",
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      same thing with the commas
  • "proficient".
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      proficient."
  • developement
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      development
  • performance based
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      performance-based
  • research based
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      research-based
  • work on technology
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      work on, technology
  • high tech
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      high-tech
  • everyday life
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      everyday lives
  • in my colleagues' in your classroom
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      just "in my colleagues classroom" ?
Jennifer Volpato

Baywood Article - 0 views

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alternative assessment approach cognitive performance portfolio

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  • different approaches to integrating alternative assessment approaches
  • Jennifer Volpato on 06 Jul 10
     
    "This article describes the need and prospects for alternative assessment approaches in online learning environments within the context of higher education."
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