Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Three Firsts: Bloomington’s First Hackjam, ForAllBadges’ App, and Participatory Assessment + Hackasaurus

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Dan Hickey and Rebecca Itow On Thursday, June 7, 2012, the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University in con...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Digital Badges as “Transformative Assessment”

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                                                            By Dan Hickey                The MacArthur Foundation's Badges for Lifel...
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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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