It’s March Break, and while I am taking some time away from thinking hard about innovation and education, I have been collecting some great resources that I will use to write a response to this blog hop question in a few days.
The provocation:
Here are some of the resources I have been reading to prepare for this weeks’ blog hop.
One of the most powerful paragraphs comes from Will Richardson:
Is the best measurement that which determines how motivated a student is to learn more?
Further Resources:
Joe Bower: Assessment and Measurement are NOT the Same Thing
The RSA: Re-imagined System Leadership
Michael Fullan: How testing does not align with our education goals
Danger of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner and Robert Compton
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing out Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
Most Likely to Succeed (the movie)
Working at the Edge: Kinds of School Leaders
OECD: The Nature of Learning
Chris Wejr: Are we Marking Assignments or Assessing Learning?
BBC: Stress and Teens
BBC: Robotics used to give financial advice
Pedagogical Documentation (Ontario)
Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace by Joseph Aoun
I wonder if the desire to learn is the result of limitations or barriers one encounters while thinking through a problem that one is intrinsically motivated to solve.
If so, the measured result (increased desire for learning) would be directly correlated to a teacher’s ability to facilitate a student’s authentic search meaning-making and strength-building.
My default belief is that all of this can be measured. It goes against the current hegemonic system and perhaps on that account alone it’s worth the blind faith of a few.