Thursday, March 29, 2012

Encouraging reflection on practice while grading an artifact: A thought on badges

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When I started teaching I thought back to all of those teachers who made me write meaningless papers into which I put little effort and ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Flipping Classrooms or Transforming Education?

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Dan Hickey and John Walsh Surely you have heard about it by now.  Find (or make) the perfect online video lecture for teaching particular...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Some Things about Assessment that Badge Developers Might Find Helpful

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Erin Knight, Director of Learning at the Mozilla Foundation, was kind enough to introduce me to Greg Wilso n , the founder of the non-pro...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Initial Consequences of the DML 2012 Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition

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Daniel T. Hickey The announcement of the final awards in MacArthur’s Badges for Lifelong Learning competition on March 2 was quite exci...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Open Badges and the Future of Assessment

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Of course I followed the roll out of MacArthur’s Badges for Lifelong Learning competition  quite closely. I have studied participatory appr...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

School Creativity Indices: Measurement Folly or Overdue Response to Test-Based Accountability?

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Daniel T. Hickey A February 2 article in Education Week surveyed efforts in California, Oklahoma, and other states to gauge the opport...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Finnish Lessons: Start a Conversation

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Rebecca C. Itow and Daniel T. Hickey In the world of Education, we often talk of holding ourselves and adhering to “high standards,”...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Another Misuse of Standardized Tests: Color Coded ID Cards?

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An October 4, 2011 Orange County Register article that reports a California high school’s policy to color code student ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Introducing Rebecca

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It has been just about six months since I closed up my classroom in sunny Southern California, picked up my life, and moved to Bloomington, ...
Monday, December 12, 2011

RMA is back!

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After an extended hiatus, Re-Mediating Assessment is back.  In the meantime, lots has happened.  Michelle Honeyford completed her PhD and jo...