Category: Assessment & Badges
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Syllabus and Curricular Arc for Anti-racist Course
Writing Your Way to a New Theory of Race and Racism In this class, you will use reading and writing to challenge your assumptions around race, to investigate your relationship to race, and to design a new cognitive paradigm around race and racism. The overall goal of the class is to empower you…
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How to Revolutionize Your University? Maybe Start By Losing Your Accreditation
Today brought the remarkable news that the famous, prestigious Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern has chosen not to seek re-accreditation. As often happens, I blogged about it, tweeted my blog url, and a number of smart people on Twitter came back with some responses. This is how I learn more–and in fact it is…
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The New Education: How To Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
I am thrilled to announce that I now have the bound galleys of The New Education: How To Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux. The book will be published by Basic Books on September 5, 2017. The title of the book is the same one Charles Eliot used for his…
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Recapping the IMS Global Summit on Digital Credentials and Badges
First, a little backstory for those newly on-ramped to the digital credential and badging work. IMS Global, a members-based standards consortium, announced in 2015 that it planned to partner with Mozilla Foundation “to accelerate adoption and interoperability of badges in the education and workforce sectors.” This is good news for a couple reasons, not least of which…
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Designing Playlists for Learning with DML 6 Grantees
How do playlists help guide learners toward mastery? How do we map the learning pathways associated with the development of expertise and learner identities? Our DML 6 Playlists for Learning grantees are taking on these questions, and others, as they adapt their learning content to work in playlist format on the LRNG.org platform, complete with…
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DesignLaunch – A Design Education Playlist
DiscoverDesign.org is a free digital platform that enables students nationwide to learn about architecture and design while completing design challenges and receiving feedback from teachers and professionals in the field. Achievements on the platform lead to skills development and digital badges. With over 8,000 registered users nationally, including 201 registered architecture and design professionals, DiscoverDesign…
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Building LRNG Badges: Beyond Graphics
Teachers in the New York City Writing Project, Paul Allison, Kiran Chaudhuri, Gina Moss, and Grace Raffaele, talk through the Badge Builder on LRNG. A link to the assessment documents we refer to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B52TLTNub3z9T3V4SjhLdkIwa3c A link to a PSD version of the Picture Me Badge that can be used as a template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B52TLTNub3z9TzlvenhlZkNXNlU/view?usp=sharing ALSO: Here’s a close…
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TTT#517 Argument is Everywhere – College-Ready Writers Program, LRNG Playlists, Youth Voices
Last week on Teachers Teaching Teachers (9pm ET/6pm PT on Wednesdays at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt) Christina Cantrill, Paul Allison, Joe Dillon, and National Writing Project Site Development Director Tom Fox @tomfoxchico reviewed teacher-consultant, Casey Olsen’s @Mr_Olsen_Says LRNG playlist https://www.lrng.org/national-writing-project/playlist/argument-is-every… On TTT, recently, we’ve been slowly, descriptively looking at the online, blended curriculum 20 teachers across the country…