|writing the obit on summative assessment |

glcc / 360º learning / unconference 5/20/10

< introduction >

Greg Thompson

gst0423@gmail.com www.constructingmeaning.com

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< 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

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< 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.”

soulja boy

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

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< 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

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< 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

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< you >