glcc may 20, 2010
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Presentation on new frameworks for assessment. Using YouTube as a conceptual frame for summative assessment.TRANSCRIPT
|writing the obit on summative assessment |
glcc / 360º learning / unconference 5/20/10
< introduction >
< /introduction >
< context >
“participatory set”
conversation
cognitive dissonance
create, then parallel
disclaimer
lawrence lessig
mike wesch
jim belcher
chris lehmann
< lessig >
“These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of this country. When I was a boy . . . in front of every house in the summer evenings you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or the old songs.”
“Today, you hear these infernal machines going night and day.”
creation culture
highly interactive on a personal level
passive culture
bring themselves
passively consume
“[What we end up with is a] culture where creativity was consumed, but the consumer is not a creator.”
remix is about building on the past
internalizing it and (re)creating it
< /lessig>
< wesch >
1943
3 networks x 64 years x 365 days x 24 hours = 1.6 million hours of programming (2007)
six months = 64 years
9,232 hours of video per day
(2007)
= 385 always on television channels
28,800 hours per day
(2009)
135.4 million viewers
watched 12.7 billion videos
1/2010
numa numa by gary brolsma
8,095,623 times
97,000 (re)creations
“It starts to look less like an infectious joke than a new cultural order. These kids aren’t mocking the Numa Numa guy, they’re venerating him. And they’re beautiful to see because they are replicating and spreading his happiness. They are following a ritual that’s meaningful, if not yet venerable. They are learning the dance, lip-singing the song, documenting their performance just so, making it available for the world to see.”
102,000 (re)creations
learn
conceptualize
produce
publish
< /wesch >
< belcher >
“SocialMedia CreativityCommunity”
code monkey by jonathan coulton
creativity and play
media enhanced social community
2,360 videos (re)creations
code monkey by passionate (re)creator
< /belcher >
< me >
assessment
doing
culture outside = user generated
culture inside = scripted
students enjoy learning
students hate school
knowledge inoculation
not
knowledge appropriation
schools = landscape of prohibition
corrosive/corrupting
“In the apprenticeship era, the adult carefully observed learners and corrected them as they went along, giving them tasks they were ready for, and seeing whether they completed them successfully. Observation during the course of task completion combined the functions of formative and summative assessment.
Ongoing, formative encouragement or critique provided feedback to guide the learner through tasks, and the final, summative judgment gave learners feedback on whether the task was successfully completed.”
feedback
mastery
assessment “for” learning
assessment “of” learning
formative vs summative
convergent / divergent
“Convergent thinking is a practical way of deciding among existing alternatives. What convergent thinking is not so good at, however, is probing the future and creating new possibilities.
By testing competing ideas against one another, there is an increased likelihood that the outcome will be bolder, more creatively disruptive, and more compelling. Linus Pauling said it best . . .
“To have a good idea, you must first have lots of ideas.” – and he won two Nobel Prizes.”
extinction
amaze us!
The natural tendency of [education] is to constrain problem-solving and restrict [student] choices in favor of the obvious and the incremental. Though this tendency may be more efficient in the short run, in the long run it tends to make a [student] conservative, inflexible, and vulnerable to game-changing ideas from outside. Divergent thinking is the route, not the obstacle, to innovation.
divergent assessment
purposeful meaning in their process
< /me>
< lehmann >
“what if” at science leadership academy
flow process bio-diesel generator
powerful, purposeful
free to play with their learning
< /lehman >
< me again >
information age
age of creation intensification
rethinking school
let‘s write the obituary on summative assessment
and
the thinking that drives the current status quo
students live in a culture of
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user generated content
let‘s create a culture of
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user generated assessment
youtubization of learning
let‘s make school about learning again
< /me>
< you >