Assessment for Learning:Leveraging Technology

Professor Jeremy B. Williamswww.jeremybwilliams.net

Chief Academic Officer

Virtual Global Conference on Technology for Blended and Distributed Education

Christ University, Bangalore20 August 2010

Are these students learning? …

What dothese studentshave in common?

They have norecollection of life B.G.

B.G. is Before Google

The verb toto search for information

means

The First Law of the Internet states that the answer is on the Internet. Therefore the quest is no longer “Where to find the answer” but “How to word the question”.

− Randi

A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up with digital technology (computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3 players).

The consequences of all this?

The end of teaching and the start of learning

Old Paradigm: Teacher Centric New Paradigm: Learner Centric

Old paradigm

In the knowledge economy, content is not king. Rapid technological change requires future-proof learning ... learning that lasts.

New paradigm

Importantly, the learner is both

consumer and producer of this information.

Information is everywhere.

Students need to create and publish …

The virtual world is the real world

e-Learning

… it’s just learning

Bloom’s taxonomy blooms digitallyAndrew Churches (2008)

Lorin Anderson (2001)Benjamin Bloom (1956)

(2008)

Traditional literacy:

Reading, writing, speaking, listening

Digital literacy:

Ability to use ICTs to locate, evaluate, use

and create information

Information literacy: Ability to

identify, locate, evaluate and use

information

Visual literacy: Ability to

understand and produce visual

messages

Critical literacy:

Ability to question,

challenge, and evaluate meaning

and purpose of text

Media literacy: Ability to use

question, analyse, interpret,

evaluate, and create media

messages

Tool literacy: Ability to use

tools to manage, consume, and

create information

What does it mean to be

literate?

Churchill (2009)http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/new-literacy-in-the-web-20-world

participatory pedagogy that fosters

authentic assessmentlearner centricity and

This new paradigm is a …

Authentic assessment is the bridge between theory andpractice

Technology can assist in the creation of authentic

learning environments

Can be online or on campus

Example: Team Case Study Analysis

Case Study 5:

“The good, the bad, and the ugly”

Sustainable Development and Competitive Advantage

The Annual Eastwood Sustainability Awards

• Your international standing as an expert in the field of ecological economics is such that your consultancy company has been approached to assist the Panel of Judges presiding over the Annual Eastwood Sustainability Awards

Think

Sustainable development in practice

• Consider the sustainable development journey …

• Which companies are reactive, which are proactive?

The dimensions of EEE

MMK services gainedNK services sacrificed =

MMK services gainedMMK stock

(1)

XMMK stockThroughput

(2)

XThroughput

NK stock

(3)

XNK stock

NK services sacrificed

(4)

[Service efficiency]

[Throughput efficiency]

[Growth efficiency]

[Ecosystem efficiency]

Read

• http://www.ethicalperformance.com/

• http://www.greenbiz.com/

• http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/

• http://corpwatch.org/

For example …

Discuss

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• Which companies have a good record?

• Which companies have a bad record?

• Which are plain ugly?

• A company that is well advanced on its sustainable development journey (“Good”)

• A company that hasn’t made much progress at all, or is trying to repair damage (“Bad”)

• A company that hasn’t even started on the journey! (“Ugly”)

Consider, for example, …

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Deliver

Prepare a 10 minute presentation providing an example (and critique) of each

Go ahead… make my

day!

Peer reviewed learner content

Example: OBOW exams

Open BookOpen Web

Assessment for learning

not assessment of learning

Sample OBOW exam

Thank you for not sleeping

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