Thursday, April 15, 2010

short-sighted and socially destructive: thoughts on Ning's decision to cut free services

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Lord knows I'm not a huge fan of Ning, the social networking tool that allows users to create and manage online networks. I find the des...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Diane Ravitch Editorial on the Failure of NCLB

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I have long admired Diane Ravitch. While I have disagreed with her on fundamental philosophical grounds, her arguments have always been grou...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Video of Barry McGaw on Assessment Strategies for 21st Century Skills (Measurement Working Group)

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I just came across a video of a keynote by Barry McGaw at last month’s Learning and World Technology Forum. McGaw heads the Intel/Microsoft...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Can We Really Measure "21st Century" Skills?

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The members of the 21st Century Assessment Project were asked a while ago to respond to four pressing questions regarding assessment of “21s...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Join this discussion on Grading 2.0

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Over at the HASTAC forum , a conversation has begun around the role of assessment in 21st-century classrooms. The hosts of this discussion...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Void Between Colleges of Education and the University Teaching and Learning

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In this post, I consider the tremendous advances in educational research I am seeing outside of colleges of education and ponder the relevan...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Positioning Portfolios for Participation

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Much of our work in our 21st Century Assessment project this year has focused on communicating participatory assessment to broader audiences...

Participation versus Compulsion

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In Sleeping Alone and Starting Out Early , Jenna McWilliams offers up a concise summary of the value of blogging for schools. Her post got ...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Q & A with Henry Jenkins' New Media Literacies Seminar

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New media scholar Henry Jenkins is teaching a graduate seminar on new media literacies at the University of Southern California's Annenb...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

putting the "our" in "open source"

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on the dearth of women in the open source programming movement In case you haven't seen it yet, I wanted to link you to Kirrily Robert...
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