Diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• NCEE | Empowered Educators

  "_Empowered Educators_ is a landmark, international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world’s top-performing education systems" (How are they doing it? ¶2).

  tags: 21st century achievements books briefs comparisons countries education educational systems international policies research resources teachers teaching

• TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada - The Hechinger Report

  "Preparation for a career shaping the minds, values and spirit of our youth requires people of substance who are attracted to the profession because being an educator is an engaging and secure job choice" (¶17).

  tags: 21st century Alberta Canada curriculum degrees education educators empowerment international qualifications teacher training teachers U.S.

• The Origins of 10 Nicknames | Mental Floss

  Explanations of more or less popular nicknames

  tags: English diminutives history names nicknames phonetics popularity

• Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms.pdf

  In this article, Gilliard (2017) illuminated redlining, surveillance, and profiling practices that impinge upon educational and empowering uses of the World Wide Web.

  tags: access consent discrimination education empowerment information practices technology WWW

  • Digital redlining is the modern equivalent of this histori-cal form of societal division; it is the creation and maintenance of technological policies, practices, pedagogy, and investment decisions that enforce class boundaries and discriminate against specific groups.
  • Students are often surprised (and even angered) to learn the degree to which they are digitally redlined, surveilled, and profiled on the web and to find out that educational systems are looking to replicate many of those worst practices in the name of “efficiency,” “engagement,” or “improved outcomes.”

• Avoiding Assessment Mistakes — The Learner's Way (Coutts, 2017.07.16)

  "Testing for the skills valued in the 21st century, assessing socio-emotional intelligence and the capacity to function effectively within dynamic teams is difficult to do at scale, so we instead measure what is easy to measure. The trouble is in doing so we assign an inflated value to the parts of the curriculum which matter least and then lock ourselves in to teaching for these skills even when we know they are obsolete" (Assessment needs to be of the learning that matters, ¶1, 2017.07.19).

  tags: 21st century skills assessments education feedback formative assessment learning self-assessments teacher development timeliness

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