A friend is moving to Korea to start teaching a digital storytelling class to high school age students. He asked for some thoughts to get started, a...
Sometimes Twitter is just too small for big ideas– below is a twitter conversation that sprung up around my recent post Competency vs. Mastery. This post will describe how Knowledge Skills and Attitudes fit into the big picture of assessing student mastery of learning competencies.
Competenc...
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Thanks for asking, Mike. I can’t tell from your tweet whether you’re referring to 70% of outcomes grades in a course, vs. getting 70% of questions within a competency correct, so I’m going to address both conditions.
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Hi Phil, Thanks for your kind invitation to think this out.
I think we all need to be very explicit about what we mean when we use terms like “competency”, “mastery”, “outcomes”, and “learning objectives”. Either I’m showing my ignor...
“At this time in our history, the most valuable institutions will be those that generate real learning from average or disadvantaged students, not those that generate learning from those students for whom learning is, frankly, easy.”
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Why I Would Have Avoided LA’s iPad Debacle
In response to the Wired article “What Schools Must Learn from LA’s iPad Debacle”. [Full disclosure: I am a Pearson employee but have no inside knowledge of this deal. This analysis is mine alone.]
When I learned of LAUSD’s shambolic iPad 1:1 program,...
In response to Kaplan University Begins Offering Personalized Competency Reports to More than 40,000 Students
Kaplan University’s Personalized Competency Reports
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It’s great to see Kapla...
As we look at traditional education and try and explain how it got this way, one topic is so taboo that it rarely gets discussed. as much as we love and value our students, they can be a lit...