Testing &
21st c ed
PCSS ProD
Nov-Dec/12
q from nov 28 pro'd
re using Schoology for quizzes/tests:
How do you keep kids from
finding answers on the web,
from emailing each other (yada, yada)?
In 21st C. ed
I humbly suggest
this is a non-issue
Just-in-case learning
has become
Just-in-time learning
Ed is changing foundationally.
In 21st C learning,
why use tests at all?
because...
If we can search the web
and find any information we need,
why learn those things?
And more importantly,
why test those things?
What are we testing?
LOTS or HOTS?*
*Bloom's taxonomy
What is it that students can't
get on the web?
How do I help my students
learn those things?
shift happens
Tech has changed,
at a foundational level,
much of what education is.
shift happens
From measuring what's been learned,
to measuring what the learner can
do with what's been learned.
More HOTS, less LOTS.
physics 101
In school looking at
someone else's work
is called cheating.
In life it's called
collaboration.
If we are to teach the skills needed
to find, evaluate and use
information well,
wouldn't we want students
to demonstrate that on a test?
In this new paradigm,
does cheating even exist?
Think open-book test.
Think equation-tables supplied
at final exams in the gym.
What can students do
with the data?
How does a test
demonstrate that?
Is there some other
'real-world' way to
demonstrate it?
In FN11/12...
In French...
In English...
In Science...
What did you have to learn in
high school that you've
never used since?
21st c learning
Premier's doc, 2010
...technological literacy, research &
information fluency
...digital citizenship
...from learning information to
learning to learn
...from a content based system to
a skills based system
...from just-in-case learning to
just-in-time learning
...from testing to assess to
assessing to learn
Premier's Tech Council, A Vision for 21st C.ED, Dec.2010, 37.
"show what you know"
aka
demonstrate your learning
A BP9 story
A prayer request & the
Life of Jesus unit
"It's time to demonstrate what you've
learned in this unit. Any ideas?..."
p.s.
Last year I gave a unit test.
This year I'm doubting how well it
demonstrates their learning.
A (great!) project idea
came from their brainstorming.
"I'd rather just have a test
and get it over with.
It's less work."
(x2)
"But will a test best demonstrate
your learning?"
"I cram for tests and then
forget everything."
"I know."
How would our tests change
if we didn't worry about kids
accessing the browser,
or if we even
encouraged them
to use the browser?
Learning and assessment
in the 21st C are changing.
tHoughts?
role of testing in 21st c edu
By mrsb
