What’s happened to get people thinking and talking about “different” instead of “better?”
16 Modern Realities Schools (and Parents) Need to Accept. Now. - Modern Learning - Medium - 0 views
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The Web and the technologies that drive it are fundamentally changing the way we think about how we can learn and become educated in a globally networked and connected world. It has absolutely exploded our ability to learn on our own in ways that schools weren’t built for.
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In that respect, current systems of schooling are an increasingly significant barrier to progress when it comes to learning.
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CURMUDGUCATION: Norms vs. Standards - 1 views
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A standards-referenced test compares every student to the standard set by the test giver. A norm-referenced test compares every student to every other student. The lines between different levels of achievement will be set after the test has been taken and corrected. Then the results are laid out, and the lines between levels (cut scores) are set.
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When I give my twenty word spelling test, I can't set the grade levels until I correct it. Depending on the results, I may "discover" that an A is anything over a fifteen, twelve is Doing Okay, and anything under nine is failing. Or I may find that twenty is an A, nineteen is okay, and eighteen or less is failing. If you have ever been in a class where grades are curved, you were in a class that used norm referencing.
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With standards reference, we can set a solid immovable line between different levels of achievement, and we can do it before the test is even given. This week I'm giving a spelling test consisting of twenty words. Before I even give the test, I can tell my class that if they get eighteen or more correct, they get an A, if they get sixteen correct, they did okay, and if the get thirteen or less correct, they fail.
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The Principal: The Most Misunderstood Person in All of Education - Kate Rousmaniere - T... - 1 views
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In American public schools, the principal is the most complex and contradictory figure in the pantheon of educational leadership.
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A few years ago when I walked the hallways of a high school with my five-year-old niece Evie, she remarked, without prompting: “There’s the principal’s office: you only go there if you are in trouble.”
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Most remarkably, those very people who did not understand what a principal did were often the first to argue for the abolition of the role.
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Updating Data-Driven Instruction and the Practice of Teaching | Larry Cuban on School R... - 0 views
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I am talking about data-driven instruction–a way of making teaching less subjective, more objective, less experience-based, more scientific.
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Data-driven instruction, advocates say, is scientific and consistent with how successful businesses have used data for decades to increase their productivity.
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Of course, teachers had always assessed learning informally before state- and district-designed tests. Teachers accumulated information (oops! data) from pop quizzes, class discussions, observing students in pairs and small groups, and individual conferences.
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What teachers need to do, Noam Chomsky on assessment | Teaching using web tools - 0 views
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It doesn’t matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.”
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That’s what teaching ought to be; inspiring students to discover on their own, to challenge if they don’t agree, to look for alternatives if they think there are better ones, to work through the great achievements of the past and try to master them on their own because they’re interested in them.
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education is really aimed to just helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own because that’s what you’re going to do for your life, not just to absorb materials given to you from the outside and repeat it.
The Sabermetrics of Effort - Jonah Lehrer - 0 views
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The fundamental premise of Moneyball is that the labor market of sports is inefficient, and that many teams systematically undervalue particular athletic skills that help them win. While these skills are often subtle – and the players that possess them tend to toil in obscurity - they can be identified using sophisticated statistical techniques, aka sabermetrics. Home runs are fun. On-base percentage is crucial.
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The wisdom of the moneyball strategy is no longer controversial. It’s why the A’s almost always outperform their payroll,
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However, the triumph of moneyball creates a paradox, since its success depends on the very market inefficiencies it exposes. The end result is a relentless search for new undervalued skills, those hidden talents that nobody else seems to appreciate. At least not yet.
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Learn Different - The New Yorker - 0 views
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“We are really shifting the role of an educator to someone who is more of a data-enabled detective.” He defined a traditional teacher as an “artisanal lesson planner on one hand and disciplinary babysitter on the other hand.” Educators are stakeholders in AltSchool’s eventual success: equity has been offered to all full-time teachers.
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At my old school, they were, like, ‘O.K., you want to do architecture? Maybe in college you can do architecture.’ Here some people selected architecture, and we did a whole unit on architecture, and we built models and projects.”
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“Basically, what we have told teachers is we have hired you for your creative teacher brains, and anytime you are doing something that doesn’t require your creative teacher brain that a computer could be doing as well as or better than you, then a computer should do it,” Johnson said.
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There Are No Digital Natives - D-brief - 0 views
Curiosity Is a Unique Marker of Academic Success - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Yet in actual schools, curiosity is drastically underappreciated.
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The power of curiosity to contribute not only to high achievement, but also to a fulfilling existence, cannot be emphasized enough.
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When Orville Wright, of the Wright brothers fame, was told by a friend that he and his brother would always be an example of how far someone can go in life with no special advantages, he emphatically responded, “to say we had no special advantages … the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”
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