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Jaap Bosman

Testing For Learning, Not Assessment : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...an-effective-learning-strategy

cheating learning

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  • Jaap Bosman on 13 Jan 14
     
    cheating as a teaching strategy. Testing effect. Links to Peter Nonacs (UCLA)
Cris Crissman

The Perils of Standardized Testing: 6 Ways It Harms Learning - InformED - 0 views

www.opencolleges.edu.au/...perils-of-standardized-testing

testing authentic Goole Oxygen

shared by Cris Crissman on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Cris Crissman on 04 Feb 14
     
    "Don't the standards of the classroom prepare us for the standards of the real world?" Thoughtful article making the real world and education connection/ Google Oxygen Study seems real breakthrough. Cathy Davidson says it was for her and it have made big difference in her teaching for more "productive, happily socially-engaged lives."
Cris Crissman

Kobayashi Maru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Kobayashi_Maru

kirk ender's game star trek

shared by Cris Crissman on 18 Jan 14 - Cached
  • Cris Crissman on 18 Jan 14
     
    Larry L in Unhangout: My point: Could you blame Captain Kirk cheating in Kobashashi Maru test? I'm really convinced that cheating is an intrinsic part of a damage/broken/unfunctional education system. Cris C -- Now that I know what Kobashasi Maru means, I'd say that Captain Kirk both cheated and hacked his way to success by disrupting the unfair system. Reminds me of Ender in Ender's Game (book/series by Orson Scott Card) who was continually and brilliantly breaking the rules.
Cris Crissman

Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.? - 1 views

blogs.kcrw.com/...or-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm

game theory cheating theory

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  • Cris Crissman on 18 Jan 14
     
    Nonacs proves the value of "flipping the test" is to stimulate new ways to perceive and solve problems with what's been learned rather than regurgitate what teacher expects.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 19 Jan 14
     
    then there was the story about the L.A. school district students getting iPads that were supposed to keep them on the school site and course resources... the students promptly hacked their iPads and let themselves out on the net
Cris Crissman

Kobayashi Maru Test for Learning Cyber Security - 1 views

www.rumint.org/...KobayashiMaru_PrePub.pdf

cheating cyber security

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  • Cris Crissman on 18 Jan 14
     
    Teachers of cyber security use "cheating" to challenge students' assumptions
  • Vanessa Vaile on 19 Jan 14
     
    I'd been thinking about Kobayashi Maru
wayupnorth

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum | Dave's Educational Blog - 7 views

davecormier.com/...cation-community-as-curriculum

shared by wayupnorth on 14 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • define what counts as knowledge.
  • painstaking process by which knowledge has traditionally been codified.
  • Knowledge as negotiation
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      The Secret Sits We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost
  • ...27 more annotations...
  • The rhizome metaphor, which represents a critical leap in coping with the loss of a canon against which to compare, judge, and value knowledge, may be particularly apt as a model for disciplines on the bleeding edge where the canon is fluid and knowledge is a moving target.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      The future is already rhizomatic, it's just not evenly distributed.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      I wonder what disciplines he is referring to here. Which ones live on the edge these days? And is that changing?
  • clear definition of the word "knowledge" is difficult
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      The definition of knowledge is considered 'key' to the search for shared understanding. The more I read that sentence, the more it becomes the worm Ourboros. If it's a key, then the there is a locked something behind it. In litcrit this has been a fiercely fought battle. Some say it unlocks the power relationships undergirding any society, some say it unlocks the mysteries in the knowers themselves. Some say, fuck it and let's just look at the shiny things inside the vault with no further intent. Yes, it is difficult.
  • simply another part of the way things are"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      I believe that one of the functions of theory is to reveal our cognitive blindspots. This they very much do while at the same time creating new blindspots that arise from the use of the 'tools' of the new theory. Any new system of knowledge exposes the assumptions of the the old system. For example, awareness meditation reveals the blindspot of categorization and differentiation, but the Buddha realized that say focusing on the breath is like pointing at the moon, just another step along the path toward no-mind. Mind and knowing is the problem.
  • Horton and Freire
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
       
      I am profoundly happy to see Myles Horton cited and used. I think he has had more influence on my teaching and learning than any other. His autobiography The Long Haul is absolutely must-read for a rhizomatic pov.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 14 Jan 14
       
      Myles Horton adapted Danish Grundtvig Folkehojskole to USA schools.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      Yes, he did and then used it at the Highlander School in Tennessee.
  • The expert translation of data into verified knowledge is the central process guiding traditional curriculum development.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      I am quite taken by the word 'translation' here. I think the metaphor of translation is central to rhizomatic learning as we are always connecting and sharing information that then gets translated into knowledge (actionable knowing).
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      Experts are not to be trusted anymore, they work for big companies, their translation is skewed.
  • no community can live a healthy life if it is nourished only on such old marrowless truths.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      Brave words those--no community.
  • a negotiation (Farrell 2001)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      I wonder if this is similar to rhetoric and comp's idea of writing as a conversation?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      Interesting word, though: negotiation. It suggest an unfair balance at the start, right?
  • social contructivist and connectivist
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      These are dead links to the innovateonline site.
  • (Cormier 2008).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      Great question by Alec Couros in the comments: how do we get to a place where we are really and truly decentralized, and will this make the difference?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 17 Jan 14
       
      I don't think the decentralized rhizome has reached a tipping point society wide, but perhaps we can play at the rhizomatic game for this short few weeks and see what it might mean to live in this world that may or may not be emerging.
  • Information is the foundation of knowledge.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      doubt if information really is the source of knowledge. Mostly it is, but the road from information, over statistics, logics, arguments is not that simple I think
  • If a given bit of information is recognized as useful to the community or proves itself able to do something, it can be counted as knowledge.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      again info is not easily translated into knowledge. Distrust and care are needed, even in a rhizomatic world.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      Or skepticism?
  • the prestige of a thousand-year history,
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
       
      all over this history the prestige has been attacked. Prestige and knowledge are to be separated, so many experts were proven false and wrong.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      It's a loaded term, for sure, because those who call themselves experts are often the ones in power, and with books and writers to back them up. Is the Internet changing this paradigm? Not yet. Not yet.
  • fluid, transitory conception of knowledge
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      I like this phrasing .. that knowledge is always in motion
  • rhizome.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      And here is it.
  • disciplines on the bleeding edge
  • The explosion of freely available sources of information has helped drive rapid expansion in the accessibility of the canon and in the range of knowledge available to learners.
  • Information is coming too fast for our traditional methods of expert verification to adapt.
  • In the rhizomatic model of learning, curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in real time by the contributions of those engaged in the learning process.
  • The living curriculum of an active community is a map
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 17 Jan 14
       
      The cartography of learning. I am always intrigued by how this plays out, if done successfully. Most of the curriculum mapping I have done ... I would not call them maps. They are just plot lines going nowhere, it often seems. But the idea of a map continues to intrigue me.
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      I know D&G speak of a map as opposed to a tracing. I struggle with understanding this. The best I can come up with is the idea that a map gives possibilities for exploration, as opposed to a photo which declares what exists. This leaves me wondering about sites like Lino and Pinterest. Might they function as a map of one's exploration too, rather than just a collection of discoveries.
  • Knowledge seekers in cutting-edge fields are increasingly finding that ongoing appraisal of new developments is most effectively achieved through the participatory and negotiated experience of rhizomatic community engagement. Through involvement in multiple communities where new information is being assimilated and tested, educators can begin to apprehend the moving target that is knowledge in the modern learning environment.
  • we see as our goal the co-construction of those secret connections as a collaborative effort
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Jan 14
       
      Is this what we are doing together here in Diigo, co-constructing secret connections collaboratively? Sounds like an underground conspiracy (forgive the lame joke there.)
  • Changing Knowledge
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Jan 14
       
      Meta note here: I see our collaboration as a secret growing of knowledge among us. It may only even be true for us, on this web page, at this particular juncture because we are growing it out on the tip of the root of this text.
  • the conversion of information to knowledge
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Jan 14
       
      Examples of this conversion in our work here? 1. Each of us runs these words through the filter of our own experience 2. sharing out on social networks 3 asking and answering quesions
  • members of several communities—acting as core members in some, carrying more weight and engaging more extensively in the discussion, while offering more casual contributions in others
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      And some of us are still mainly consuming, jumping in with perhaps superficial content, practicing our engagement.
  • students had the opportunity to enter the community themselves and impact the shape of its curriculum
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      Sharing power - deconstructing the tradtional power structures of the educational system. Did this recursion result in "watering down" the curriculum? From what I recall of Dave's story, the students put in extra effort instead. Like me, they had difficulty in knowing when to quit, the exploration was so rewarding.
  • if knowledge is to be negotiated socially
    • wayupnorth
      wayupnorth on 21 Jan 14
       
      Stephen Downes (http://www.downes.ca/post/61209 and elsewhere) argues against socially "constructed" knowledge, saying instead that knowledge is recognized. Cormier's "negotiated socially" fits nicely.
  • Terry Elliott on 14 Jan 14
     
    Let's play with group annotation here.
  • Jaap Bosman on 17 Jan 14
     
    the expert is the power. No resistance is tolerated, because who knows better than the expert? But curriculum is not only made by experts, pressure groups do influence curriculum, hypes and politics do either. Here is the reason for cheating.
  • Cris Crissman on 20 Jan 14
     
    Recommended by Telli01 in Vialogues conversation https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/13001 as good intro to Dave's work on rhizomatic ed
Terry Elliott

Hacking Four Corners « Kevin's Meandering Mind - 0 views

dogtrax.edublogs.org/...hacking-four-corners

shared by Terry Elliott on 19 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • our morning meeting
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 19 Jan 14
       
      The operative word is 'our'--rooting the class in tribal consciousness.  Growing a network of connections-known and unknown--in a emergent ecosystem.
  • Responsive Classroom
  • some of the activities start getting a little old, so I encourage my students to mess around with the rules once we’ve learned them and hack the activities as they see fit
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 19 Jan 14
       
      This fits in beautifully with the discussion of cheating  this week in #rhizo14.  Fake/make/hack/unmake--seems like the normal pattern of mastery.  Once you have mastered the rules it seems as if one of the unwritten rules is to break them in order to see if they are still worth following.  Cheating is stress testing the system.  Seems almost biological.
    • Jaap Bosman
      Jaap Bosman on 19 Jan 14
       
      Always try to touch and watch what happens, all children do it, could be biology indeed. Trying to see what would happen if we do this?
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  • new terrain
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 19 Jan 14
       
      New terrain = common ground of play = ground rules?
carol yeager

Grade emphasis rather than learning - 2 views

http://www.glass-castle.com/clients/www-nocheating-org/adcouncil/research/cheatingfactsheet.html

cheating grades education

started by carol yeager on 20 Jan 14 1 follow-up, last by carol yeager on 20 Jan 14
Terry Elliott

Ego and The Swarm | teachnorthern - 1 views

teachnorthern.wordpress.com/...ego-and-the-swarm

shared by Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • I’m finding it impossible to escape the thread of ‘ego’ running through the last ten days.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      I am having trouble, too. In fact I find myself moving from ego to eco, from tree to root, from node to network in a kind of leap of faith.
  • Independent learning is tough.  Independent thinking even tougher.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      I agree and I want to add that the task of interdependent learning and thinking is even harder. It is so hard for me that I am not sure I am even doing it. I trust that this share annotation is one simple way of doing interdependence. The hard part is figuring out what is happening in the mix that rises above the mix. What is the reintegration that happens as we bake our variety into the cake? What is the final baked product?
  • I’ve thought about Tragic Life Stories (actually the name of a department in WH Smith) and the way in which they dominate not only TV and popular news media, but stories about adult learning too.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      I file this under 'everybody's a critic'. Each of us has a set of personal and professional filters for the buzzing profusion of life that pushed into us every day. The tabloid filter is quite simple; it bleeds, it leads. There are lots of schema (some might call them assumptions or presumptions). Diversity is good--a presumption. Dependency is bad--a presumption. The problem with all of these presumptions is that they are habitualized into near-instinct quick filters. Hence, the birth and perpetuation of the blindspot. Dammit.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  •  I want a dialogue that begins, “I can’t do this thing you asked me to do, in this timeframe,” and continues with, “What are you assuming, that is stopping you meeting the deadline?” – designed to search only for a strategy to get past whatever barrier has set itself in the way.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      This is heavy pull here. The filter/value of keeping deadlines is self-referential. You make the filter because that cog is needed to fit into the larger machinery of the institution. You must have deadlines in order to have order within the term or semester. We wouldn't want to treat others unfairly, unequally (even more filters). Thus the system creates the circular logic that justifies the values of the system. The heavy pull is to dump the trash can that holds the whole mess together and say, "Well...it's a mess. Let's try something else." What you are asking for is the right to be messy. The system struggles against such illegibility. Mightily. So mightily that subversion (one of the tools of messification) is inevitable and iconoclasm becomes a way of life in that system. Or we become 'silent runners'. Does this analysis seem true to what you are saying? I ask in the spirit of interdependence.
  • Bernard Williams ‘fetish of assertion’
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      "Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • So, released from time to time from the imperative to obey my ego, I walk happily into the swarm.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Jan 14
       
      Fro ego to eco--how else can it be with 7 billion people on the planet. This is not just a stance, it is an imperative.
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