http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2012/04/25/bursting-bubbles/ A listening post monitoring public education and teachers' unions. Thu, 02 May 2013 19:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2012/04/25/bursting-bubbles/comment-page-1/#comment-9186 Gisele Huff Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:14:17 +0000 http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/?p=4865#comment-9186 The brilliant Third Way is to move to blended learning where “the stuff we have to learn” before we can do the glamorous things is imparted through technology-enhanced models. Because these include on-going assessments that trigger instantaneous interventions, it is much easier to ascertain exactly how competent a student is and get him where he needs to be. As Sal Khan argues, if a student gets a 70 on a 6th grade math test, we have no idea what he doesn’t know and how it will later affect his grasp of algebra. That doesn’t happen when learning is compentency-based and tracked online.

]]> http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2012/04/25/bursting-bubbles/comment-page-1/#comment-9169 Joy Pullmann Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:10:13 +0000 http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/?p=4865#comment-9169 Thank you for articulating a tension I have long felt but been unable to so clearly express. I, too, find that standardized tests offer some value, but not as “the number” or “the set of numbers” that buttons a teacher or student.

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