by andflywrite | Jun 24, 2017 | BEST LINKS EVER
PSA notes that learning is a complex, if innate, human undertaking. As we strive to tearn how best to make tools that enable learning using cloud applications, and social learning constructs etc, there’s a sort of virtuous circle of assembling the necessary...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Individual Learner
That was something Garrison Keillor said about his fictional town in Minnesota, Lake Wobegon. Here’s a column from Anya Kamenetz, one of our favorite education innovation thinkers. Sort of asks the question of what we can do now to know the individual. In the...
by andflywrite | Jul 17, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
EdSurge has this short summary of three tools that can help with Dynamic Learning Plans need for formative assessment. The tools suggested work with Usage, Engagement, and Knowledge/Skill assessment. One of the goals of academic assessment is to identify which...
by andflywrite | Dec 10, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
According to a recent article in EdSurge, there’s a non profit developing a game engine that supports learning and include assessment metrics. It goes on to note that this game engine can be used by other ed game developers. GlassLab Games (“Glass” stands for...
by andflywrite | Aug 1, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
This is the kind of thing that more conventional educators come up with, but formerly it didn’t have the smart phone and twitter type components. Kris knows her formative assessment, which in the brave new world is called adaptive learning, and is part of a...