some of my Full Sail research

In case any of you were curious, here's a summary of the action research I did for my master's program in Educational Media Design at Full Sail University.

Leadership_project

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The Assessment Problem

The Assessment Problem

GREAT post from Weblogg-Ed on one of my favorite topics (read: pet peeves), assessments. I'm a longtime fan of Will Richardson's blog, one of the first to really to address social media (back when there was only "blogging" in that category) in education. Comments encouraged!

Would they listen if the KIDS told them?

By now, many of you may have heard about the recent high school valedictorian speech in which one very articulate young woman blasts the traditional educational system:

"Some of you may be thinking, “Well, if you pass a test, or become valedictorian, didn’t you learn something? Well, yes, you learned something, but not all that you could have. Perhaps, you only learned how to memorize names, places, and dates to later on forget in order to clear your mind for the next test. School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible."

Um, yeah...what she said.

Watch the video here:

@TechCrunch: Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for educational purposes

Educators of the world (oh, and you fellow iPhone hackers out there): this news is HUGE!! Read on...
Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for educational purposes

Dan Brown: An Open Letter to Educators

I haven't posted here in a very long time. Quite frankly, I've been too busy in graduate school, trying desperately NOT to become the type of educator Dan Brown describes as his typical college professor. I don't wish to comment any further on something that I think Dan says quite eloquently on his own, so instead I'll merely share this with you all as proverbial food for thought...

YouTube Video: No Future Left Behind

New York Times Magazine: The Case for Working With Your Hands

In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Matthew B. Crawford makes a very compelling case (I think) for bringing back shop class, and for us to consider the return of the value of manual trades. I particularly loved this paragraph:

"A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive. There is a pervasive anxiety among parents that there is only one track to success for their children. It runs through a series of gates controlled by prestigious institutions. Further, there is wide use of drugs to medicate boys, especially, against their natural tendency toward action, the better to “keep things on track.” I taught briefly in a public high school and would have loved to have set up a Ritalin fogger in my classroom. It is a rare person, male or female, who is naturally inclined to sit still for 17 years in school, and then indefinitely at work."

Read on...

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