assessment for learning: leveraging technology
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Presentation at Virtual Global Conference on Technology for Blended and Distributed Education, Bangalore, India, 20 August 2010TRANSCRIPT
Assessment for Learning:Leveraging Technology
Professor Jeremy B. Williamswww.jeremybwilliams.net
Chief Academic Officer
Virtual Global Conference on Technology for Blended and Distributed Education
Christ University, Bangalore20 August 2010
Are these students learning? …
What dothese studentshave in common?
They have norecollection of life B.G.
B.G. is Before Google
The verb toto search for information
means
The First Law of the Internet states that the answer is on the Internet. Therefore the quest is no longer “Where to find the answer” but “How to word the question”.
− Randi
A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up with digital technology (computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3 players).
The consequences of all this?
The end of teaching and the start of learning
Old Paradigm: Teacher Centric New Paradigm: Learner Centric
Old paradigm
In the knowledge economy, content is not king. Rapid technological change requires future-proof learning ... learning that lasts.
New paradigm
Importantly, the learner is both
consumer and producer of this information.
Information is everywhere.
Students need to create and publish …
The virtual world is the real world
e-Learning
… it’s just learning
Bloom’s taxonomy blooms digitallyAndrew Churches (2008)
Lorin Anderson (2001)Benjamin Bloom (1956)
(2008)
Traditional literacy:
Reading, writing, speaking, listening
Digital literacy:
Ability to use ICTs to locate, evaluate, use
and create information
Information literacy: Ability to
identify, locate, evaluate and use
information
Visual literacy: Ability to
understand and produce visual
messages
Critical literacy:
Ability to question,
challenge, and evaluate meaning
and purpose of text
Media literacy: Ability to use
question, analyse, interpret,
evaluate, and create media
messages
Tool literacy: Ability to use
tools to manage, consume, and
create information
What does it mean to be
literate?
Churchill (2009)http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/new-literacy-in-the-web-20-world
participatory pedagogy that fosters
authentic assessmentlearner centricity and
This new paradigm is a …
Authentic assessment is the bridge between theory andpractice
Technology can assist in the creation of authentic
learning environments
Can be online or on campus
Example: Team Case Study Analysis
Case Study 5:
“The good, the bad, and the ugly”
Sustainable Development and Competitive Advantage
The Annual Eastwood Sustainability Awards
• Your international standing as an expert in the field of ecological economics is such that your consultancy company has been approached to assist the Panel of Judges presiding over the Annual Eastwood Sustainability Awards
Think
Sustainable development in practice
• Consider the sustainable development journey …
• Which companies are reactive, which are proactive?
The dimensions of EEE
MMK services gainedNK services sacrificed =
MMK services gainedMMK stock
(1)
XMMK stockThroughput
(2)
XThroughput
NK stock
(3)
XNK stock
NK services sacrificed
(4)
[Service efficiency]
[Throughput efficiency]
[Growth efficiency]
[Ecosystem efficiency]
Read
• http://www.ethicalperformance.com/
• http://www.greenbiz.com/
• http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/
• http://corpwatch.org/
For example …
Discuss
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• Which companies have a good record?
• Which companies have a bad record?
• Which are plain ugly?
• A company that is well advanced on its sustainable development journey (“Good”)
• A company that hasn’t made much progress at all, or is trying to repair damage (“Bad”)
• A company that hasn’t even started on the journey! (“Ugly”)
Consider, for example, …
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Deliver
Prepare a 10 minute presentation providing an example (and critique) of each
Go ahead… make my
day!
Peer reviewed learner content
Example: OBOW exams
Open BookOpen Web
Assessment for learning
not assessment of learning
Sample OBOW exam
Thank you for not sleeping
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