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

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  • 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" ?
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Turning Children into Data - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 23 Aug 10
     
    "Turning Children into Data: A Skeptic's Guide to Assessment Programs"
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Quest Atlantis - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 11 Jul 10
     
    "Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-16, in educational tasks."
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Weblogg-ed » New Assessments for New Learning - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    Blog post by Will Richardson regarding the challenges of new assessments for new models of learning.
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PBL Web - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "This workshop is intended as a Primer to introduce educators to Project Based Learning - and to the use of free online tools in project based learning."
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Standardized Testing - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    While this is a personal web site developed by a college student, there is some interesting information, particularly in the pros and cons sections.
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Education Futures - Ken Robinson on standardized testing - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "Ken Robinson goes on the offensive against standardized testing in a post-industrial society … and hits the issue on the head:"
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frontline: testing our schools: parents' guide | PBS - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    This site breaks down the world of standardized assessments into easily understandable chunks. Designed for parents, the site offers a particularly useful chart presenting testing issues and what supporters and critics say about each.
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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."
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Project Based Learning Video «Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "I've been working with several teachers over the years in our district on the using project based learning. We're by no means experts but are doing some nice work. These three high school teachers have taken the bull by the horns and restructured the school day to provide some learning not easily done in our traditional 40-75 minute classes. This 5 minute video tells part of their story."
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Project-based Learning at High Tech High | A 21st Century Education Film Series - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "In this film, Larry Rosenstock, describes a vision for educaiton that blends the head, the heart, and the hands. High Tech High embraces learning that flows from personal interests, passion for discovery and a celebration of art, technology and craftsmanship."
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testing « Search Results « Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    A collection of blog posts around NCLB, testing and standardized assessments from Wes Fryer's Speed of Creativity.
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YouTube - The Future is Now: Presentation to the RU Board of Governors - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    This video provides an example of how students of the 21st century compose in both words and images. Rutgers is re-imagining the humanities for the 21st century.
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Multimedia as Composition: Research, Writing, and Creativity | Academic Commons - 0 views

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    Writing with multimedia.
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Undoing the Damage of High-Stakes Testing « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 05 Jul 10
     
    The writer of this blog post argues that high-stakes testing is damaging our students' learning when they are drilled in taking tests rather than participating in opportunities to problem solve and critically think with their peers worldwide.
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The Power of Project Learning | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    Why new schools are choosing an old model to bring students into the 21st century.
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BIE: Project Based Learning: Overview: Project Based Learning - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    Excellent site from Buck Institute of Education on PBL. Our model assumes that teachers and students will be most successful in carrying out Project Based Learning if careful attention is given to developing an engaging, student-focused culture on the classroom.
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TeacherTube Videos - Challenge Based Learning in the Elementary Classrm - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    An example of challenged -based learning in the elementary classroom.
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Google Apps for ePortfolios - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "Schools and universities can set up free Google Apps accounts with their own domain name, where they can give all student and faculty acces to a variety of tools, including a GMail account, iGoogle portal, Google Groups for collaboration, and Pages, for creating websites. Each user can also use their GMail account to activate other Google services, such as GoogleDocs."
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Concord.org - Projects - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "The Concord Consortium undertakes innovative projects that bridge the gap between research and practice. Some projects are at the level of nuts-and-bolts technology, while others focus on learners. In all cases our projects strive to create new structures for learning and are strategically placed to achieve important long-term goals."
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