by edtosavetheworld | Jun 17, 2013 | News and Trends, Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership, Testing and Assessments
How do we transition from old exams to new ones? Which assessments should we care about anyway? Are we even close to measuring the demands of the 21st Century? The dizzying amount of news about assessments in schools is enough to make anyone’s head spin. This...
by edtosavetheworld | May 16, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 3: Critical Thinking
Stage 3 of our framework focuses on improving the quality and sophistication of students’ thinking. This means we should provide opportunities for students to: 1) uncover conceptual understandings and transfer those understandings to unlock new situations. 2)...
by edtosavetheworld | May 10, 2013 | Innovation Series
This week we outlined a vision for the importance of authentic assessments. Today’s post features David Sengeh, founder of Global Minimum Innovate, which creates platforms for African youth to design, experiment and implement solutions to problems in their...
by edtosavetheworld | May 9, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 3: Critical Thinking, Testing and Assessments
Educators are faced with a major dilemma: we must teach students to solve problems that we ourselves cannot solve. Yes, this sounds crazy, and yes, this is true. We need to equip our students to save failing democracies, prevent economic depressions, stop...
by edtosavetheworld | May 8, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing, Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding, Stage 3: Critical Thinking, Testing and Assessments
“The first object of any act of learning is that it should serve us in the future.” – Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education, 1960 Bruner’s quote aptly sums up the importance of transfer: the ability to use what we’ve learned in a future...
