Personal learning environments: concept or technology? Managing personal learning environments: the voice of the students. Researching the design and development of a Personal Learning Environment. Connecting Assessment. I’ve recently designed a rubric for blogging that I shared in this previous post. I’ve been using this in my classroom over the past weeks and have found that the specific criteria and descriptions listed on the rubric have been effective at helping students to improve the posts they have been writing. With this in mind, I’ve been working on another assessment to help students think about the connections and global understandings they are establishing.
I’ve developed a rubric and a checklist to use in a classroom with middle school students. While I’ve not yet used this in a classroom, I will not use it to assign a grade to these activities, but instead to be a conversation starter with students. It could possibly be used in a small group setting or as a self assessment tool. I can also see sitting with students several times over the course of a school year (possibly once every two months?)
As usual, please leave any thoughts or comments behind. Do you…. _____ read blogs when needed? Podcast/Press release: Effective assessment in a digital age. Most of us have had formal or informal feedback throughout our lives. The way in which we have been assessed very likely has had a fundamental effect on our learning and career progression. Assessment is one of the most important parts of learning and teaching and whether institutions get this right or wrong has a huge impact on students’ lives and careers. Jisc’s new guide Effective Assessment in a Digital Age demonstrates how technology can significantly improve the experience of assessment and feedback. As many higher education institutions are reviewing their assessment strategies, Jisc is looking at the transformative effects of technology that increase learner autonomy, enhances the quality of the assessment experience and improves teaching efficiency.
“Why do we still insist that students, who mostly use technologies such as laptops and mobile phones when researching their assignments, sit down with pen and paper and write long essays when they are assessed?” Download the podcast. Online learning and the evaluation of group processes. Exploring and Defining Influence: A New Study. InShare100 Influence is bliss… The socialization of media is as transformative as it is empowering.
As individuals, we’re tweeting, updating, blogging, commenting, curating, liking and friending our way toward varying levels of stature within our social graphs. With every response and action that results from our engagement, we are slowly introduced to the laws of social physics: for every action there is a reaction – even if that reaction is silence. And, the extent of this resulting activity is measured by levels of influence and other factors such as the size and shape of nicheworks as well as attention aperture and time. Defining Influence The word influence as well as the individuals referred to as new influencers are elusive in terms of standard definition. To help, I drafted a working definition to address influence and influencers as slightly modified from its longstanding definition in standard dictionaries.
The Influencer Poll Defining influence is just the beginning. Demographics. What Can't Be Measured - Tom Davenport. By Larry Prusak | 9:25 AM October 7, 2010 (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and I are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength. Over the next few months, we’ll be coauthoring posts in this blog to test-drive ideas and invite input as the research progresses.) The amazing Robert Sternberg, a very prominent psychologist, has just issued his latest book, College Admissions for the 21st Century, which must be close to his 100th book or so. He is a leading, maybe the leading, critic of the sort of standardized tests that measure what is measurable rather than what really matters. In fact, his book is one of a long series of books that share a common theme — society’s need, in Sternberg’s words, “to move beyond narrow conceptions of the skills needed for life success” and to correct its “gross underemphasis on wisdom and ethical qualities.”
To that last phrase we can safely add the word “judgment.” Evaluating E-learning: A Guide to the Evaluation of E-learning.