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"It seems only fitting to explore the role of questions in education by asking questions about the process of doing so. I propose that we start with the customary way of framing this topic and then proceed to questions that are deeper and potentially more subversive of traditional schooling. 1. WHICH QUESTIONS? To begin, let's consider what we might ask our students. The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers. That's why a number of writers have encouraged the use of questions described variously as "true" (Wolf, 1987), "essential" (Simon, 2002), "generative" (Perkins, 1992; Perrone, 1998), "guiding" (Traver, 1998), or "fertile" (Harpaz & Lefstein, 2000). What the best of these share is that they're open-ended. Sometimes, in fact, no definitive right answer can be found at all. And even when there is one - or at least when there is reason to prefer some responses to others - the answer isn't obvious and can't be summarized in a sentence. Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam? Grappling with meaty questions like these (which were among those generated by a class in Plainview, NY) is a real project . . . literally. A question-based approach to teaching tends to shade into learning that is problem- (Delisle, 1997) and project-based (Kilpatrick, 1918; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Wolk, 1998). Intellectual proficiency is strengthened as students figure out how to do justice to a rich question. As they investigate and come to understand important ideas more fully, new questions arise along with better ways of asking them, and the learning spirals upwards. Guiding students through this process is not a technique that can be stapled onto our existing pedagogy, nor is it something that teachers can be trained to master during an in-service day. What's required is a continual focus on creating a classroom that is about thinking rather

"1. The teacher is choosing the technology. It's not always possible, but when you can, let the students choose, and see what happens. Not all of them will be able to. Some need help; so let other students help them. 2. The teacher is choosing the function. This doesn't mean you can't choose the function, but if you students can't control the technology the use nor its function, this can be problematic: the learning is passive from the beginning. 3. The teacher is determining the process. To an extent you have to, but don't overdo it. 4. The technology is distracting. If the technology is more magical than the project, product, collaboration, process, or content itself, try to muffle the bells and whistles. Or use them to your advantage. 5. The technology isn't necessary. You wouldn't use a ruler to teach expository writing, nor would you use a Wendell Berry essay to teach about the Water Cycle. No need for a Khan Academy account and a fully-personalized and potentially self-directed proficiency chart of mathematical concepts just to show a 3 minute video on the number line. 6. The process is too complex. Keep it simple. Fewer moving parts = greater precision. And less to go wrong. 7. Students have access to too much. What materials, models, peer groups, or related content do students actually need? See #6. 8. The teacher is the judge, jury, and executioner. Get out of the way. You're (probably) less interesting than the content, experts, and communities (if you're doing it right). 9. They artificially limiting the scale. Technology connects everything to everything. Use this to the advantage of the students! 10. They're not limiting the scale. However, giving students the keys to the universe with no framework, plan, boundaries or even vague goals is equally problematic. 11. Students access is limited to too little. The opposite of too board a scale is too little-akin to taking students to the ocean to fish but squaring of

"CoRubrics, an add-on for Google Sheets helps teachers in the assessment process. It is used to assess students (or groups of students) with a rubric designed by the teacher and also allows students to assess other students (coevaluation). CoRubrics automates the entire process. First, teachers design the rubric they want to use in Google Sheets, then they add the students' names and their email address. (These can be imported from Google Classroom). Once this is done, the add-on will: Create a Google Form with the contents of the rubric. Send the form to the students by email or simply provide the link to the teacher. Process the data once the form is filled out (by the students or by the teacher). Finally, send the results to the students (each student receives only their results) with a personalized comment. In addition, CoRubrics allows: Insert comments when answered. Allow Co-evaluation, self-assessment and teacher assessment with one link."

"Today, getting what you need is as easy as a trip to the store. From food to clothing, energy, medicine, and so much more, Andy George will discover what it takes to make everything from scratch. His mission is to understand the complex processes of manufacturing that is often taken for granted and do it all himself. Each week he's traveling the world to bypass the modern supply chain in order to harvest raw materials straight from the source. Along the way, he's answering the questions you never thought to ask."

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures, or simpl

"The Chinese government blocked 17.5 million would-be plane passengers from buying tickets last year as a punishment for offences including the failure to pay fines, it emerged. Some 5.5 million people were also barred from travelling by train under a controversial "social credit" system which the ruling Communist Party claims will improve public behaviour. The penalties are part of efforts by president Xi Jinping's government to use data-processing and other technology to tighten control on society."

"A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth's climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century. On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment. In an inch-thick layer of plankton fossils and other detritus buried more than 500 feet deep, they found a disturbing clue about the planet's past that could spell disaster for the future. Lower in the sediment core, fossils abounded from 60 plankton species. But in that thin cross-section from about 56 million years ago, the number of species dropped to 17. And the planktons' oxygen and carbon isotope compositions had dramatically changed. Kennett and his student Lowell Stott deduced from the anomalous isotopes that carbon dioxide had flooded the air, causing the ocean to rapidly acidify and heat up, in a process similar to what we are seeing today."

"This book YOUNG & CREATIVE - Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims to catch different examples where children and youth have been active and creative by their own initiative, driven by intrinsic motivation, personal interests and peer relations. We want to show the opportunities of digital technologies for creative processes of children and young people. The access to digital technology and its growing convergence has allowed young people to experiment active roles as cultural producers. Participation becomes a keyword when "consumers take media into their own hands". Digital technologies offer the potential of different forms of participatory media culture, and finally creative practices. YOUNG and CREATIVE is a mix of research articles, interviews and case studies. The target audience of this book is students, professionals and researchers working in the field of education, communication, children and youth studies, new literacy studies and media and information literacy."

"This sample rubric from Lisa Yokana can help guide efforts to assess the materials and knowledge students come to understand through the process of making, as well as the habits of mind and qualities they demonstrate. For more information, read the associated post: "Creating an Authentic Maker Education Rubric." For an editable version of this rubric, check out this "Editable Sample Rubric.""

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"... Lo que más se olvida en medio de estos insólitos argumentos es que la evaluación es parte del aprendizaje, y que evaluar no significa tomar exámenes. Cuando intento ayudar a una estudiante adulto a reconstruir lo poco que le queda de su autoconfianza para aprender, se abre "la caja de Pandora" de su trayectoria escolar frente a los exámenes: todo lo que queda es dolor, humillación y sufrimiento, pero de conocimiento NADA. Y no creo que aquí haya que empezar con el "todos pasamos por lo mismo y sin embargo…" porque la cantidad de personas que llegan con su capacidad de aprender totalmente destruida a la vida adulta muestra a las claras que algo se viene haciendo muy mal con la evaluación desde hace ya mucho tiempo. Es una enorme mentira que el rigor en los exámenes sirvió para aprender más, sólo instaló el miedo a no tener que volver pasarlos. ..."

"Diez reglas que debes seguir al dar feedback a tus alumnos SI No Sé muy claro acerca de lo que quieres que logren tus alumnos, lo que deben saber y saber hacer No interrumpas a un alumno cuando está tratando de resolver algo por sí mismo Centra tu feedback sobre lo que el alumno supo, hizo o logró No centres tu feedback en el propio alumno Coméntale solo unas pocas cosas No lo abrumes con demasiadas cosas de una sola vez Compara el trabajo del alumno con un estándar establecido que le muestre su progreso (o la falta de él) No compares a los alumnos con sus compañeros Dile al alumno hasta dónde llegó y dale pistas sobre cómo puede mejorar No le digas lo que estuvo mal en su rendimiento sin decirle cómo mejorarlo Comunícale tu convencimiento en que lo puede hacer mejor No le digas que un rendimiento pobre o mediocre es todo lo que esperabas Ofrece el feedback cuando el alumno todavía tienen tiempo para mejorar No ofrezcas feedback solo después de evaluaciones formales Cambia el modo en el que des el feedback para adaptarte al nivel de experiencia del alumno No limites el feedback a las notas y comentarios sumativos como: bueno, excelente, decepcionante Aprende de las reacciones de los alumnos a tu feedback No conviertas las reacciones de tus alumnos a tu feedback en "es su problema" Discute tu feedback con el alumno No des feedback sin permitir que tus alumnos puedan pedir aclaraciones"

"... Es verdad que se pueden profundizar temas, mejorar explicaciones, pero revisar la historia no es negarla. Eso lo aprendí, también, gracias a otro libro leído en aquellos primeros años como investigador: Los asesinos de la memoria, de Pierre Vidal - Naquet. Hijo de dos deportados asesinados en Auschwitz, este célebre helenista se propuso demostrar que los negacionistas no solo no hacen buena investigación histórica, sino que mienten. Desmontó los argumentos de Robert Faurisson, un negador del Holocausto. Lo hizo con método, y de una manera implacable, a pesar de que para ello tuvo que echar sal a sus heridas. Superó la prueba del propio involucramiento emotivo: "aquí no se trata de sentimientos" -escribió- "sino de la verdad. Esa palabra, que antes pesaba, tiene hoy en día una tendencia a disolverse". Tal vez demasiado tajante, pero es que Vidal - Naquet supo que el peligro era muy grande, y no se podía dar el lujo de distraerse. Los negacionistas no quieren destruir la verdad "que es indestructible, sino la toma de conciencia de esa verdad". Terrible, porque esa toma de conciencia es el momento de la decisión política, el paso previo a la acción. ¿Cómo paralizar a miles? Golpeando "a una comunidad sobre las mil fibras aún dolorosas que la ligan a su propio pasado". Es un trabajo de zapa, que disfrazado de la revisión para avanzar, paraliza, no nos deja salir de un momento fundante a partir del horror: "se trata de privar, ideológicamente, a una comunidad de lo que representa su memoria histórica. Henos pues obligados, en última instancia, a probar lo ocurrido. Nosotros, que sabemos desde 1945, henos aquí forzados a ser demostrativos, elocuentes". Reemplacemos "1945" por "1985", el año histórico del Juicio a las Juntas. Hemos construido pisos de saber, aproximaciones a la verdad (pues no existe algo así como la verdad absoluta) pero resulta que hay quienes, escudados en el derecho a opinar, impugnan esa

"Subversión en el ámbito educativo: conozcamos a nuestro enemigo. JUAN JOSE CATALAN [Ministro de Cultura y Educación] Autor Institucional: Ministerio de Cultura y Educación URI: http://repositorio.educacion.gov.ar:8080/dspace/handle/123456789/88827 Date: 1977-10-27 Abstract: Distribución del Folleto Subversión en el ámbito educativo : Conozcamos a nuestro enemigo se distribuirá en todos los establecimientos educacionales a través de los organismos competentes en este Ministerio"