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David Boxer

Deeper Learning: Performance Assessment and Authentic Audience | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Change Your Gradebook into a Logbook Only list things in your gradebook that students and parents can Google. If the search of that assignment title doesn't bring up the beginning of the breadcrumb trail you intended, then you need to word it better. I used to list things like "Quiz 1" or "Homework from Chapter 3" in my gradebook. No one has any idea what those are, and if those scores are low, no one has any idea how the kid can improve them. This is opposite of how psychology shows that humans work. We want to be shown our mistakes so we can fix them. Student grades need to fluidly move up and down as kids show learning, retention or lack thereof. So, start listing the big ideas from your course as your assignments. "
Jenni Swanson Voorhees

Edtech: Is it time for creative destruction? - Lessonlane - 0 views

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    Danish blog translated - thoughts about "creative destruction" as the process we need to innovate education.
David Boxer

Students Distracted by Screens? The #1 Antidote - from Tom Daccord on Edudemic - 0 views

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    "More importantly, it happens in K-12 classrooms all the time.  I know because when teachers relate stories of engaged students using technology, their students all ask the same question: "Can I have more time to work on it?" The ingredients for cooking up engaging activities vary, but certain elements are constant. For one, the activities are challenging and expectations high. There's no "click-along-with-me-and-do-what-I-do-kids" passiveness in these classrooms. Instead, it's more like: "This is hard. And I'm not going to show you how to do it. But I expect what you create will be excellent." There's also an authentic audience. Tell students you're going to present their work at a conference, or submit it to a state publication, and then watch the heightened focus in their eyes. Yet, the audience doesn't necessarily need to be outside the school walls. Just tell them you're going to show their work to other classes and teachers. As one teacher noted: "I didn't realize how little I mattered, until I told my students that I was going to publish all their work to an audience." And great teachers figure out other ways to make kids care. They personalize the content - drawing connections to kids' lives - and help students understand why what they're doing is important."
Renee Hawkins

Q&A: Cathy Davidson on Institution Building to Prepare Students for the Information Age... - 1 views

  • s cofounder of Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory,
  • Cathy Davidson on Institution Building to Prepare Students for the Information Age
  • Six or seven years ago, the conversation in many other venues was almost all about EdTech.
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  • university admissions officers were involved in our project as well, campaigning for new kinds of standards. Until college admissions change the kind of testing that measures who does and doesn’t get into college, high school can’t change, and if high school doesn’t change, grade school can’t change. If grade school can’t change, kindergarten can’t change, and if kindergarten can’t change, preschool isn’t going to change.
    • Renee Hawkins
       
      High School college counselors have more influence on digital teaching and learning in high schools than any other individual or policy.
  • more corporations involved—not in terms of the corporatizing of public education but rather in being more vocal and persuasive about the kind of workforce that is needed today and the mismatch between the training we support in our schools and the demands of a changing workplace.
  • they hire brilliant students with excellent test scores and grades and then find that they are so focused on getting the right answers that they don’t actually know how to do what is essential—which is identifying what you don’t know, and then finding out who can help you get the answers.
  • excited about connecting worlds that aren’t traditionally connected—game designers with teachers with institutional authorities like superintendents, principals, and school boards.
  • People are beginning to see that “digital media and learning” isn’t just about the machines; it’s about a new way of thinking and learning.
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    Cathy Davidson looks at the transition from EdTech to Digital Media Learning.
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