Procrastination
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
Read Moreby Andrew | Aug 12, 2016 | Cost of Education, Culture, Higher Education, K12, Pedagogy, Working World | 0 |
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
Read Moreby Andrew | Nov 5, 2013 | Accreditation, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, MOOCs, Outcomes Assessment, Pedagogy, Politics and Dysfunction, Unschooling | 0 |
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
Read Moreby Andrew | Oct 11, 2013 | Blackboard, Design, E-learning, Higher Education, K12, Pedagogy, Technology | 0 |
We don’t always know what we want, or what we’ll really use. Visionaries can see what...
Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 19, 2013 | Analytics, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Rubrics, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
How do we know what anyone knows? For school admissions, for hiring… An experiment in the second category is well under way in US K12. The Common Core has landed, with children and parents boycotting the tough new exams in...
Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 3, 2013 | Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
A wonderful piece in today’s NYTs fills my mind with metaphors: A golf ball, struck 300 yards, starting off-course by only a degree…where does it wind up? What would happen if you corrected course after just 10 feet...
Read Moreby Andrew | Feb 17, 2013 | Accreditation, Challenges to Assessment, Conferences, Cost of Education, E-learning, Education Reform, ePortfolios, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
Read Moreby Andrew | Nov 21, 2012 | 21st Century Skills, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
One of my favorite design stories has nothing to do with software. Building software, especially...
Read Moreby Andrew | May 3, 2012 | 21st Century Skills, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Technology, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
It is easy to slam manufacturing: manufacturing is synonymous with pollution, lost American jobs, and an overall national slide from prominence. American ingenuity is focused on big budget Hollywood films, reality TV, and...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 11, 2011 | Challenges to Assessment, Culture, Feedback, Higher Education, K12, Uncategorized | 0 |
When I was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college my floor got new carpets over the summer. I walked out to my first floor meeting, with my 20 or 30 freshman who would soon be (already were) smoking cigarettes, consuming vast...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 7, 2011 | Challenges to Assessment, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
What if 50% of the students in a classroom demanded that their questions be answered? That their agenda be the focus? Education would fall apart. There is an unwritten contract between traditional students and traditional...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 5, 2011 | Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, K12, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
I don’t know much about standardized testing; I took the PSAT and the SAT. I was a decent...
Read Moreby Andrew | Aug 19, 2011 | Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
Some days you think culture is the most powerful force in the world; it is often perceived as a negative force, even though the word ‘culture’ has positive connotations. We could talk about Wall Street, or Washington. But they...
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