Category: assessment
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Podcast228: Pedagogic Crimes Against Students
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs indicates the perception of a safe environment, along with basic physiological needs, are pre-requisites for the development of higher order needs eventually culminating in self-actualization. This podcast focuses on our ethical obligations as moral educators to speak out and take action when pedagogic crimes are taking place in our schools…
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Changing expectations of learning
I listened to the second part of David Warlick’s interview with Holly Jobe as a podcast this morning driving into work. What an inspiring and thought provoking message! Here are a few key takeaways: Our focus as educators and learners should be helping students become LITERATE and actual practitioners, not simply pretenders, of the content…
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Overt and covert messages in signs
I admit I can be a bit of a cynic. Here are a few photos I’ve taken the past few weeks, with a few ideas of what the implications or logical conclusions of these photographed declaratory statements might be… along with a few “more positive” images and messages! So teachers and administrators need to purchase…
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Eric Langhorst’s keynote at MOREnet
These are my text notes from Eric Langhorst, 2007-2008 Missouri state teacher of the year, at the MOREnet conference (MITC07)on 15 Oct 2007. “Why Is My Classroom Web 2.0?” This was the conference keynote address. Eric recorded it and will be posting it on his podcast channel in upcoming weeks. “It’s amazing what happens when…
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Join online debates about education policy sponsored by The Economist
One of the best decisions I made in college was joining the speech and debate team as a freshman. I am firmly convinced participating/competing in intercollegiate debate as well as speech events for 4 years (extemp and impromptu were my main other events) helped me cultivate my critical thinking, organization, and public speaking skills more…
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Podcast191: Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments by Alan November
This podcast features a presentation by Alan November at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 14, 2007. Alan’s session description in the conference program was: In this working session, we will combine our best thinking to create a library of creative assignments that our colleagues can use as high quality examples of…
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Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments by Alan November
These are my notes from session 3 at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai with Alan November. I am recording this session with permission from Alan and will post it here later as a podcast. – you had to construct your own learning – you thought you knew how to do something, but via a…
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Interaction is insufficient, creation and construction are key
I was (at last) able to listen to Dr. Mitchel Resnick’s keynote address from BLC 2007, thanks to Bob Sprankle’s podcast recording. (Original link broken: Here’s an Internet Archive Wayback Machine version, which includes the original mp3 podcast!) I’ve heard Bob, Queyen Arana, and a few others mention what a fantastic message Mitch shared in the…