Life is a legitimate classroom. OH. MY. GOSH. THIS. IS. GOOD! Read this: A Letter From a Hybrid Student Then think about these two points that Teo makes: 1) “…it takes courage to assert that one’s life is a legitimate classroom.” 2) “Our lives are our source material; our histories, a text worthy of exploring [...]
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Life Is A Legitimate Classroom
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Education, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, education, experience, highereducation, Learning, PLA on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Compliance Or Learning: What’s Accreditation For?
Posted in Accreditation, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Visits, Professional Development, Reflection, tagged Accreditation, highereducation, Learning, professionaldevelopment, reflection on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It must be accreditation season. This spring I served on two regional accreditation teams (one for WASC, one for NWCCU) as a peer reviewer. Wait – did you say peer reviewer??? – WE BREAK HERE FOR A TEACHABLE MOMENT – Hear that students of mine? Peer Review! Yep – just like we do in our [...]
The Art Of Program Assessment
Posted in Art, Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, tagged art, Assessment, highereducation, Learning on May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The OIA Blog (a blog written by the Office of Institutional Assessment of SCAD) published a piece called Abstraction in Art and Assessment. These two key paragraphs struck a chord with me (I added the bold for emphasis): It became clear to me that the more abstract an image is, the more I can focus [...]
Disrupting Assessment
Posted in Assessment, Change, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Reflection on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
[Reader Beware: This might be the most prattlenogging I've done in a long time ... it's a long one, but it's a kernel of something good and important, I think. Well, *I* think. You tell me! Comments encouraged.] Randy Bass recently wrote this AMAZING FABULOUS INCREDIBLE INSIGHTFUL BRILLIANT (etc. etc.) article in the March / [...]
Fearing Assessment; Fearing Learning (And Fearing David Brooks)
Posted in Assessment, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Learning, Students, Teaching, tagged Assessment, facultydevelopment, fear, highereducation, Learning, Students, Teaching on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
O this learning, what a thing it is! ~Grumio in Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare Twice this past month I’ve heard the word “fear” used by faculty when referring to their experience of assessing student learning in their courses. One person described it as fear of students disagreeing with their grade or feedback, or [...]
Connecting Paper And Image: Assessment As Origami
Posted in Art, Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged art, Assessment, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on April 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Joshua Brown, the editor of Research & Practice in Assessment (published by the Virginia Assessment Group), wrote in his From The Editor column in the Winter 2011 issue this interesting idea about assessment paradigms: Whereas Western art focuses upon the freedom to move images around on paper or canvas to create fixed patterns, origami ignores [...]
Intersections
Posted in Experience, Learning, tagged experience, failure, Learning on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another good card from Indexed! If I were drawing this card, I would likely switch the positions of Learning and Progress – with the idea that learning is the intersection between failure and progress. But it is likely the case that progress can be the intersection between learning and failure as well. One [...]
Syllabus For Experiential Learning Camp – OR – Yep, They’re My Relatives
Posted in Experience, Learning, Nature/Nurture, Preschool, tagged experience, family, Learning, NatureNurture, preschool on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As most of you Nog-readers know, I’m a big fan of learning that can happen through experience. It’s a key element in Prior Learning Assessment of course — that is, that experience is turned into learning by a reflective process — and I, for one, try to learn by experience each and every day. You [...]
Being Intentional About Being Intentional
Posted in Assessment, Experience, Kids, Learning, Life, Problem Solving, Teaching, Yoga, tagged Assessment, experience, kids, Learning, Life, problemsolving, Teaching, Yoga on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Intentionality. With thought. Deliberate. Designed. Purposeful. Intentionality is on my mind a lot because I think that assessment can be more interesting, engaging, and powerful (for learners and teachers) when it’s less about measurement and accountability and more about supporting authentic learning practices. In this vein, assessment can be an interesting catalyst for reminding us [...]
Teaching And Assessment – But Learning?
Posted in Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged Assessment, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Teaching and assessment are certainly represented in this teaching demonstration for Social Dance (Section 24). Learning, however, is not. Ooops! Thanks to colleagues on the POD list serve for pointing out this gem.
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