Group items matching "Assessment" in title, tags, annotations or url - MVIFI Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation

shared by Meghan Cureton on 27 Jun 17 - No Cached

assessment grading Innovation

shared by Bo Adams on 07 Dec 17 - No Cached

“I think academic environments are artificial environments.
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People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment.
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You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer.
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the more experience Google has with hiring, the more inclined they are to hire people with no college at all
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Increasingly, controlled research studies are also showing no correlation, or even an inverse correlation, between college GPA and innovative orientation or ability.
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Ironically and tragically, rather than adapt our educational system to the needs of our modern times we have doubled down on the old system, so it is harder today than ever before for young people to retain and build upon their natural curiosity and creativity
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shared by Bo Adams on 19 Dec 17 - No Cached

The learning classroom is active, collaborative, and full of real, thoughtful, academic-discipline-informed discussion with students working together to solve challenging problems
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But when the teachers see it, really get it, there is no going back. It is what they are after for their students and classes: problem-based, project-based, inquiry-based, discussion-based-all student-centered deep learning.
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And to pursue learning for their students, teachers must be pedagogical scientists. Every day, in every class, teachers must conduct research and experiments into the most compelling learning experiences for their students. In these experiments is unavoidably innovation.
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We can support teacherly innovation/experimentation a host of ways: Establish it as an expectation in posts for jobs and at the time of hiring new teachers. Discuss it in teacher evaluations and self-assessments. Feature examples of it in faculty meetings. Provide innovation grants for summer design work. Give time to teachers (through course loads, class enrollments, course reductions, and even sabbaticals) for innovation work.
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