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Jenny Staley

Future Workplace and Kaplan University to Host 2011 Social Learning Boot Camp - 2 views

www.marketwatch.com/...-learning-boot-camp-2011-09-23

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  • Jenny Staley on 26 Sep 11
     
    NEW YORK, Sep 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Future Workplace and Kaplan University, a leader in higher education innovation, are teaming up to present the 2011 Social Learning Boot Camp, an exclusive two-day event designed to provide talent development executives with the tools to design and launch social learning platforms. The boot camp is scheduled for Sept.
Jeff Andersen

The Differentiator - 16 views

byrdseed.com/differentiator

Blooms examples

shared by Jeff Andersen on 28 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • Siri Anderson on 28 Mar 20
     
    Interactive tool for reconsidering your learning objectives and activities along the lines of Bloom's taxonomy.
  • Jeff Andersen on 29 Mar 20
     
    The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu. Try It In: French Dutch * Tweet It * Pin It
Steve Ransom

When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washingto... - 6 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQApTDuUO_blog.html

testing achievement highstakes teacherevaluation

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. I can’t see how that could possibly be true of the test I took.”
  • “If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had.
  • “It makes no sense to me that a test with the potential for shaping a student’s entire future has so little apparent relevance to adult, real-world functioning.
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  • Those decisions are shaped not by knowledge or understanding of educating, but by ideology, politics, hubris, greed, ignorance, the conventional wisdom, and various combinations thereof. And then they’re sold to the public by the rich and powerful.
  • “It’s education by humiliation,” Kaplan said. “I’ve never seen teachers and principals so degraded.”
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Dec 11
     
    A powerful anecdote which speaks to the value of our current silly test-based education trajectory
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