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Randy Ziegenfuss

Jane McGonigal-Gaming Can Make a Better World| The Committed Sardine - 2 views

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shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 05 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 05 Jul 10
     
    "Game designer Jane McGonigal gives an interesting and entertaining keynote concerning how games can make us better at solving real-world problems in this video from Ted Talks. "
Kevin Bush

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

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shared by Kevin Bush on 04 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 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

YouTube - TEDxNYED - Dan Meyer - 03/06/10 - 2 views

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shared by Randy Ziegenfuss on 12 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 12 Jul 10
     
    "Dan Meyer teaches high school math outside of Santa Cruz, CA, and explores the intersection of math instruction, multimedia, and inquiry-based learning. He received his Masters of Arts from the University of California at Davis in 2005 and Cable in the Classroom's Leader in Learning award in 2008. He currently works for Google as a curriculum fellow and lives with his wife in Santa Cruz, CA."
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