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Don Lourcey

21st Century Skills Assessment : Valid Data and ISTE-NETS-S Aligned - 0 views

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21st Century Assessment

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  • Don Lourcey on 10 Mar 10
     
    21st Century Skills Assessments: Offers question types, sample texts, reporting strategies, portfolio assessment, etc.
Courtney Jablonski

Wanted: Ways to Assess the Majority of Teachers - 0 views

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assessment paradigm shift value added teacher evaluation

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  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Feb 11
     
    Article addresses the question as to how to assess teachers who are not directly linked to standardized testing of students. A referenced study suggests that the majority of teachers will fall into the "not linked to state testing" category contrary to the attention that is being given to the evaluation standards set under Race to the Top requirements and other state legislation.
Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

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Time Magazine 100 most influential people innovation mit world global solutions TED founder Amy Smith Time influential people

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  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
Courtney Jablonski

Teachers carry their views on evaluations from online to Albany | GothamSchools - 0 views

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paradigm shift teacher evaluations professional development

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  • The teachers’ goal was to devise recommendations based on teachers’ own experience for what measures districts should consider when evaluating teachers, and how heavily each of those measures should be weighted.
  • focused on breaking down “the culture of ‘closed doors’”
  • Under the state’s teacher evaluation deal passed last May, teachers will be given a score on a new 100-point scale, with 40 of those points determined by student achievement data.
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  • The remaining 60 points will be determined through “local assessments,” which will take forms that must be negotiated by school districts and their local unions. The law leaves open what those assessments could look like. Newly-developed tests or portfolio demonstrations of student work are two ideas that state officials have mentioned as possibilities.
  • One aspect of the local assessments is clear: they all must meet new regulations that are currently being developed by a state task force led by Deputy Education Commissioner John King.
  • The group ended up recommending that the 60 points be spread across five different evaluation measures, giving the most weight to observations by school administrators and other teachers in the school. A sixth measure — student portfolio work — was considered but abandoned, because the increase in paperwork for teachers seemed too high for the value the portfolios would provide for the evaluations, Anderson said.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 11 Feb 11
     
    If you were to design the new teacher evaluation system, what would you include? What opportunities would you want this evaluation system to bring to light?
Snap Munk

Leadership Assessment Tools | purevolume.com - 0 views

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leadership assessment tools

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  • Snap Munk on 09 Jun 15
     
    Marketing consulting & brand strategy management for organic growth in your business.
Don Lourcey

Cultivating Authenticity in Learning - 2 views

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authentic assessment authenticlearning 21st Century Assessment 21st Century Learning 21st century Literacy

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      Don Lourcey on 20 Apr 11
       
      This is a pivotal issue. How do we we move the thinking necessary to shift from a comfortable, stale approach to one that is defined by its learning, engagement, and interaction? 
  • Schools that confine themselves to a bland curriculum, textbooks, worksheets, or learning activities that do not go beyond the walls of the brick and mortar building are really doing a disservice to their learners.
Jari Laru

Novicraft Teambuilding and Leadership Game - 0 views

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leadership training team training team building collaboration awareness serious gaming game

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  • Jari Laru on 16 Jan 11
     
    NoviCraft is a multiplayer 3D game developed for teambuilding and leadership training. It is an excellent awareness application for trainers, HRD specialists and consultants for assessing, building, and developing leaders, teams and team work in various organizations.
Courtney Jablonski

Education Week: Common-Assessment Consortia Expand Plans - 0 views

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common core standards professional development instructional materials

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  • Courtney Jablonski on 14 Feb 11
     
    I know that it is still early in the game, but has anyone found resources at this point that have been helpful in examining the standards or that you think will help with implementation and training in the future?
Brian Nichols

The Power of Educational Technology: 9 Common Principles for 21st Century Schools - 4 views

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education 21st Century web2.0 principles 21st school technology learning

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  • Don Lourcey on 20 Oct 09
     
    "Build Community - The school should bring all learners together into a supportive community that nurtures both the individual and the group. The community should permeate all possible spaces, in the classroom, in the home and Online. 2. Encourage Critical Thinking - The school should actively encourage learners to think critically, continually asking the question, "Why do we teach what we teach?" 3. Reward Risk Taking - The school should actively encourage learners to risk failure in the pursuit of understanding. 4. Focus on all Learners - The school should surround the learner with ideas and information, encouraging the learner to pursue a wide variety of paths to knowledge, and supporting the personal growth for all who inhabit the community. 5. Value Diversity - The school should actively encourage and value the input of those both inside and outside the community with a diversity of opinions and experiences. The school should consistently check that it is inclusive and supportive of learners from diverse backgrounds. 6. Nurture all learners - The school should provide opportunities and encouragement for all members of the community including teachers, students and parents to learn and grow. 7. Pursue Innovation - The school should actively explore, pursue and assess new ideas and technologies, while always keeping the learner at the heart of the pursuit. 8. Teach Empathy - The school should actively and explicitly teach learners to think beyond themselves, encouraging students to value kindness and generosity. 9. Break down the walls - The school should provide access and opportunities for learners to reach outside the walls of the school to the neighboring, national and global community. "
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