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“Digital or Open Badging is the first real alternative to one-best-answer testing that both has those features and addresses key other learning objectives–and, it must be added, is being adopted in numbers that make its acceptance as an alternative system feasible. With the announcement of the Clinton Global Initiative’s adoption of badges, the Chicago Summer of Learning, and universities, informal learning centers, and many other programs devising new badging systems it is possible that we are on the verge of a major change in “how we measure,” one that better counts what we value and values what we count.”
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Starting With Why: The Power of Student-Driven Learning
“I think teachers and school organizations need to ask themselves the Why questions, beginning with: Why do we own the learning and not our students? Or, as Will Richardson so eloquently posits, Why School?
Why do we have so many students like the one I know, frustrated and bored, just waiting to be challenged? We’ve made education about manipulation and hoops instead of inspiring our students to pursue learning that matters to them — learning that can help them make a difference in our communities and the world.” -
Innovate, Create, Educate: What Happens When Students are Invited to Redesign Learning?
What Happens When Students are Invited to Redesign http://t.co/kSVkhPkHna @boadams1 have U heard abt @stuEdcon https://t.co/WN8qY3u9bQ
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Personalization. | Living the Dream
“Continually shoehorning student learning in a path that a computer decides is necessary is not the most interesting or empowering version of personalization.”
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PROCESS POST: What is a Community of Practice? | Craig Lambert Blog