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What is authentic assessment?

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Photo by Frederick Rubensson on Flickr 'In every talk, I'm asked where I would start first in revolutionizing education (K-professional school): Answer, always. 2011) Teaching for Quality Learning at University. Assessment. Until we change how and what we measure from 19th c productivity norms, education will deliver a 19th c product.'

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Chance encounters

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I was on a lecture tour of New Zealand in 2011, and was thoroughly enjoying my time travelling around the beautiful North Island, speaking at events in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Whangarei, and of course, the capital city, Wellington. You never know who you're going to meet, or where it will happen. Unported License.

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This Week in Learning – December 15, 2015

The Learning Dispatch

Lorem Ipsum photo credit: Blake Burkhart, Flickr, 2011, Creative Commons. It is, however, helpful to remember that it can be done poorly, as this classic demonstrates. Timeline of the Universe. And from Universe Today, inspiration on a galactic scale. Until next time, Kevin.

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

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Photo by Vladimer Shioshvili on Flickr Educators have been using video for decades. It is difficult to predict the future accurately, but we are able to analyse social trends and determine what we might see with reasonable accuracy for a few years into the future (Kaku, 2011). 2011) Physics of the future, London: Penguin Books.

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Taking up residence

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Along with Alison Le Cornu, White published an article in 2011 that countered the Digital Natives and Immigrants ideas of Marc Prensky. Photo by Tawheed Manzoor Taking up residence by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Experiential learning

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2011) Democracy and Education. Ultimately, his belief was that teachers should not be in the classroom to act simply as instructors, but should adopt the role of facilitator and guide, giving students the opportunities to discover for themselves and to develop as active and independent learners. Reference Dewey, J. Unported License.

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Games for girls

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Games based learning is currently a hotly debated topic in education and is a fertile field of study (Holmes, 2011; Abrams, 2009). The games we play Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Games for girls by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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