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Danna Ortiz

What to test instead - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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Dede

shared by Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • A new wave of test designers believe they can measure creativity, problem solving, and collaboration – and that a smarter exam could change education.
  • Reengineering tests has become a kind of calling for a group of educators and researchers around the country. With millions of dollars of funding from the federal government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as from firms like Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft, they have set about rethinking what a test can do, what it can look like, and what qualities it can assess.
  • computer simulations, games, and stealth monitoring
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  • Chris Dede at Harvard
  • Such predictions require a clear sense of the qualities a person needs in order to thrive.
  • There are just a lot fewer jobs where you’re not doing information-seeking, interpreting, problem-solving, and communication than in the past.”
  • engineer tests
  • equire people to exercise a bundle of complex skills at the same time,
  • rafting computer programs that take advantage of so-called stealth assessment, a method of judging test-takers without telling them exactly what’s being judged.
  • When we test, we’re really probing for certain qualities—the particular mix of knowledge and ability—that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.
  • developed a 3D video game to test scientific skills
  • students
  • evaluated
  • rocess they go through to attack a problem.
  • Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner participated in an effort to design new kinds of tests in the humanities that could be graded objectively.
  • Ultimately, he found that the nuance required to measure softer skills collided with the demands of standardization.
  • A test becomes a sign post,
  • t becomes an example of what to strive for.”
  • Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12
     
    How test designers are trying to move away from standardized tests to computer programs that can measure a myriad of skills simultaneously through simulations and "stealth monitoring."  Both Chris Dede and Howard Gardner are mentioned.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - 2 views

larrycuban.wordpress.com

shared by Tommie Anthony Henderson on 27 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 27 Nov 11
     
    For those who pine for film over digital movies, miss the clackety-clack of typewriters, or even rotary dial phones, well, get ready for the slow-motion demise of brick-and-mortar schools. COLLEGES TAKING OVER THE ENTIRE LEARNING PROCESS! STANFORD HAS STARTED --- OTHERS WILL FOLLOW!
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

How Do We Train Teachers in Formative Assessment? - Teacher Beat - Education Week - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/...o_we_train_teachers_to_us.html

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 19 Dec 11
     
    "The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"
  • James Glanville on 19 Dec 11
     
    Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."
Bridget Binstock

Data Analytics Tech Opportunities on the Rise - 4 views

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technology jobs analytics

shared by Bridget Binstock on 18 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 18 Nov 11
     
    This article discusses some tech careers and locations of these opportunities. "The results are clear. Mobile computing, cloud computing, social business, and business analytics have gone beyond niche status and are now part of any modern organization's core IT focus," said IBM's Jim Corgel, general manager of ISV and Developer Relations. "IT professionals who can develop the skills needed to work across these technologies will be ready to meet growing business demand in the coming years."
Heather French

Must Have Apps for Back to School - 1 views

teacherswithapps.com/o-get-ready-for-back-to-school

EDC educational_technology Emerging Technology

shared by Heather French on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Heather French on 19 Sep 12
     
    Teacher recommended apps. I especially like the review of the iDevBooks. Great math applications for reinforcement. For EDC
Chris McEnroe

curved displays - 0 views

www.macrumors.com/...splays-almost-ready-for-market

technology Education t561 emerging technology

shared by Chris McEnroe on 13 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Chris McEnroe on 13 Oct 13
     
    Curved Displays,the possibility of wearable displays, would offer dynamic possibilities for digital classroom design.
Harley Chang

As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...humanities-colleges-worry.html

technology Education learning t561 educational_technology

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  • Harley Chang on 01 Nov 13
     
    Is the rise of technology the downfall of humanities? The article also talks a bit about new tech tools used in humanities classes on page 2.
  • Josh Tappan on 01 Nov 13
     
    I thought it was interesting to note the shift in focus and interest from a broad "knowledge-based" education to a "career readiness" and skills-based education over the past 10 or so years (probably due to the recession) from students AND higher ed. institutions. Do you think this shift is from student demand for more "practical" majors in STEM fields or policy/institution push to enroll more students in STEM majors?
Jennifer Hern

EBSCOhost: Black-White Gap Widens Faster for High Achievers - 0 views

web.ebscohost.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/...detail

black_white acheivement_gap DOCK

shared by Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • From kindergarten to 5th grade, he found, the achievement gaps grew twice as fast among the students who started out performing above the mean than they did among lower-performing children.
  • "The long-term implication of this is that, if these gaps continue to grow throughout their schooling career, even kids who enter kindergarten with high levels of readiness are going to end up falling below where they started," said Mr. Reardon.
Benjamin Berte

Which Augmented Reality Startups Are Most Ready for Market? We Rank Them. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...tartups-are-most-re-96822.html

Augmented Reality Startup Tier Metaio Total Immersion Zugara Layar Mobilizy Tonchidot SeakiCamera Acrossair int13 Ogmento

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  • Benjamin Berte on 16 Sep 09
     
    Here's an individual analysis of each company and how it rated according to Technology, Business Model and Utility
Margaret O'Connell

ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...20arm.html

ARM Internet_of_Things hardware

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This is the so-called Internet of Things, when all sorts of everyday objects will have tiny chips placed inside them and gain the ability to process information and talk to the Web.
  • ARM chips, by contrast, are made by a handful of contract chip manufacturers and cost 65 cents to $20 each.
  • ARM executives agree that the future is with the billions of coming things — cars, refrigerators, TVs, clothes, buildings — that will have full-blown chips or at least Web-ready sensors inside them. In many cases, they say, these things will need the lowest-power chips possible because they will be out in the world and away from a plug. Energy has replaced horsepower as the prime concern, and it is here, ARM executives said, that the company’s skills will really shine.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10
     
    I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities
  • Chris Dede on 26 Sep 10
     
    We have a reading on "ubiquitous computing" later in the semester that gets into these fascinating issues and how they might affect education.
Yang Jiang

British Kids Log On and Learn Math - in Punjab - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...25iht-teach25.html

Online technology educational_technology education

shared by Yang Jiang on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • LONDON — Once a week, year six pupils at Ashmount Primary School in North London settle in front of their computers, put on their headsets and get ready for their math class. A few minutes later, their teachers come online thousands of kilometers away in the Indian state of Punjab.
Yang Jiang

On the Media: Social media in the spotlight - latimes.com - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...edia-20101027,0,7125176.column

technology education facebook

shared by Yang Jiang on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The college campus experience makes a nice analogy for how consumers adapt to social media. Students arrive for their freshman year brimming with energy and expectation, ready to join every group, hit every party and try every new experience. The dorm room remains constantly open.
  • Yang Jiang on 06 Nov 10
     
    Can social networks be an instructive technology? Since social networks are so popular, if their features can be used in education, there would be interesting results. However, nowadays, most of them are for entertainment uses.
Jennifer Lavalle

Third of under-tens 'own mobiles' - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-15003500

shared by Jennifer Lavalle on 28 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 28 Sep 11
     
    "Nearly a third of children aged ten or under now have their own mobile phone, according to survey of parents. One in ten said their child was using an internet capable smartphone, such as the iPhone or Android devices." And yet, most schools make kids 'check' their technology at the door. Things that make you go "hmmmmm".
  • anonymous on 28 Sep 11
     
    I saw this on the LabNotes today. It's pretty amazing! What could these kids possibly be using these internet ready cellphones for that isn't learning?
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