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Art Gelwicks

In Test, Few Students Are Proficient Writers - New York Times - 0 views

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proficiency schools writing

shared by Art Gelwicks on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • About one-third of America’s eighth-grade students, and about one in four high school seniors, are proficient writers, according to results of a nationwide test released on Thursday.
  • Girls far outperformed boys in the test, with 41 percent of eighth-grade girls scoring at or above the proficient level, compared with 20 percent of eighth-grade boys.
  • Authorities in the federal government’s school testing program said they were encouraged by the results, especially since they seemed to counter other recent indicators suggesting a decline in Americans’ writing abilities.
Demetri Orlando

TEDxNYed: Jeff Jarvis: This is BS - 0 views

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tedxnyed

shared by Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Just as journalists must become more curator than creator, so must educators.
  • we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities.
  • Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.
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  • “In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book,
  • We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers.
  • Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company
  • Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability?
  • education serves a unique role in society of preparing individuals for the “vital combat for lucidity”.
  • Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10
     
    Jeff Jarvis's notes for his presentation at TEDxNYed in which he critiques the TED style as perpetuating the sage on the stage.
Demetri Orlando

UVA Med School Embraces Innovative Teaching - 5 views

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pbl innovation

shared by Demetri Orlando on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • they are expected to graduate with the habits of mind—curiosity, skepticism, compassion, wonder—that will prepare them to be better physicians
  • About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.
  • better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all
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  • One of the goals of this whole model—of having students do a lot of the learning themselves rather than passively listening—is that they need to be lifelong learners
  • Gone is the traditional 50-minute lecture. (Also gone is paper, for the most part.) The students have completed the assigned reading beforehand and, because they’ve absorbed the facts on their own, class time serves another purpose. Self-assessment tests at the start of class measure how well they understand the material. Then it’s time to do a test case, to reinforce their critical thinking and push their knowledge and skills to another level.
  • The room’s interactive technology allows her to link to students’ laptops; it also enables their work to be broadcast onto the big screens. Instead of a blackboard, she can use a document camera, which is like an overhead projector, allowing her to write or draw a diagram that will project on the screens. Absentees can view a podcast of the session.
  • We’re trying to create a situation in which they are thinking as a physician working with a patient, not as a professional test taker,
  • Immediately following the exercise, students move to a separate room where, still highly energized, they watch the video and reflect on their decision making as physicians in that particular situation.
  • studies in modern learning theory indicate that hour-long lectures are not the best way to teach students because the average attention span for listening to one is about 12 minutes.
  • The circular learning studio, Pollart notes, is designed for learning, not teaching.
  • There was some initial resistance. Some faculty felt a little offended
  • Demetri Orlando on 04 Mar 11
     
    a lot of these ideas are applicable to k-12
Demetri Orlando

Here Are The 17 Radical Ideas From Google's Top Genius Conference That Could Change The... - 6 views

www.businessinsider.com/-could-change-the-world-2012-2

open_testing

shared by Demetri Orlando on 13 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 13 Feb 12
     
    this might be another arrow in the quiver supporting open testing
  • Jack Hardcastle on 14 Feb 12
     
    If we have wireless everywhere, the ability to project onto the mind's eye, the ability to control a computer with our thoughts, and the ability to implant that computer in our body, how far away are we from having a bio-chip that gives us always-on access to the web? What will education do when children can recall facts they have never learned merely by thinking about the question? What skills do we teach then?
Demetri Orlando

Information Literacy Wiki - 0 views

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information literacy media

shared by Demetri Orlando on 28 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 28 Nov 08
     
    wiki by Harold Olerzj and librarian of Eisenhower school. Includes many resources, such as a pre-test
petergow

National Merit cutoff scores, by state and region - 0 views

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National Merit PSAT testing standardized testing

shared by petergow on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • petergow on 09 Feb 10
     
    Secret data the College Board doesn't want us all to see. Just a nice looking graph.
Sarah Hanawald

High Test Scores, Low Ability - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...high-test-scores-low-ability

CWRA China scores

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 02 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Sarah Hanawald on 02 Jan 11
     
    Wow. Students in China who succeed in college aren't necessarily "employable." Are there implications for exchange programs?
Demetri Orlando

CampusAccess.com - Study Skills - 0 views

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study_skills

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  • Demetri Orlando on 05 May 09
     
    Includes pages on exam prep, note-taking, test-taking, essay writing, time management, and stress management.
Demetri Orlando

Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...e-while-others-fall-apart.html

testing dopamine

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  • Demetri Orlando on 07 Feb 13
     
    Worriers vs. Warriors
Demetri Orlando

There's Only One Way to Stop a Bully - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...23engel.html

bullying

shared by Demetri Orlando on 25 Jul 10 - Cached
  • in American curriculums, a growing emphasis on standardized test scores as the primary measure of “successful” schools has crowded out what should be an essential criterion for well-educated students: a sense of responsibility for the well-being of others.
  • teachers, janitors and bus drivers are all trained to identify instances of bullying, and taught how to intervene.
Sarah Hanawald

School Change Consulting - Beyond Testing - 0 views

www.schoolchange.org/...beyond_testing.html

21stcenturyskills teaching technology

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 21 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Sarah Hanawald on 21 Sep 08
     
    The whole site is really interesting, I like this article. The author, Tony Wagner, has a new book out about what he calls "The Global Achievement Gap" and what to do about it.
Dolores Gende

Progressive Education - 0 views

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21stcentury alfiekohn teaching learning

shared by Dolores Gende on 31 Jul 08 - Cached
  • conventional practices, including homework, grades, and tests, prove difficult to justify for anyone who is serious about promoting long-term dispositions rather than just improving short-term skills.
  • Some of the features that I’ve listed here will seem objectionable, or at least unsettling, to educators at more traditional schools
  • A truly impressive collection of research has demonstrated that when students are able to spend more time thinking about ideas than memorizing facts and practicing skills — and when they are invited to help direct their own learning — they are not only more likely to enjoy what they’re doing but to do it better. Progressive education isn’t just more appealing; it’s also more productive.
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  • Is the education that the oldest students receive just as progressive as that offered to the youngest, or would a visitor conclude that those in the upper grades seem to attend a different school altogether?
  • Demetri Orlando on 31 Jul 08
     
    Spring 08 article from Independent School magazine does a nice job of getting to the point of progressive education
Demetri Orlando

CWRA sample report (PDF) including sample problem - 0 views

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cwra testing

shared by Demetri Orlando on 23 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 23 Apr 10
     
    Sample Problem: You advise Pat Williams, the president of DynaTech, a company that makes precision electronic instruments and navigational equipment. Sally Evans, a member of DynaTech's sales force, recommended that DynaTech buy a small private plane (a SwiftAir 235) that she and other members of the sales force could use to visit customers. Pat was about to approve the purchase when there was an accident involving a SwiftAir 235. Your document library contains the following materials: 1 . Newspaper article about the accident 2. Federal Accident Report on in-flight breakups in single-engine planes 3. Internal Correspondence (Pat's e-mail to you & Sally's e-mail to Pat) 4. Charts relating to SwiftAir's performance characteristics 5. Excerpt from magazine article comparing SwiftAir 235 to similar planes 6. Pictures and descriptions of SwiftAir Models 180 and 235 Sample Questions: Do the available data tend to support or refute the claim that the type of wing on the SwiftAir 235 leads to more in-flight breakups? What is the basis for your conclusion? What other factors might have contributed to the accident and should be taken into account? What is your preliminary recommendation about whether or not DynaTech should buy the plane and what is the basis for this recommendation?
Demetri Orlando

Independent School Magazine - Spring 2010 - Beyond Test Prep - 0 views

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shared by Demetri Orlando on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 27 Apr 10
     
    interesting articles in this issue about wikipedia, beyond AP, etc.
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