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TLDR 77

Too Long; Didn't Read Issue 77

Published: 2016-12-23 • 📧 Newsletter

Welcome to issue 77 of the TL;DR Newsletter. In TL;DR we typically discuss events of the week in education, technology, and literacy. In this issue we take a look at process as opposed to product.

This week I worked on the following:

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🔖 Key Takeaways

📺 Watch

I just came across this video of 12 year old Adilyn Malcolm thanks to the algorithms on YouTube.

The video focuses on Adilyn using the internet to stop, rewind, and watch videos of the best dubstep dancers in the world. She documents what she learned in this powerful video.

📚 Read

If you hang out with educators at some point the term "grit" or "growth mindset" will come up. In this interview, Carol Dweck, the researcher that helped coin this term discusses the challenges of this perspective being "misappropriated" as we work with learners.

Specifically, I'm intrigued by her focus on praise, effort, and work process (as opposed to product):

A lot of parents or teachers say praise the effort, not the outcome. I say [that's] wrong: Praise the effort that led to the outcome or learning progress; tie the praise to it. It's not just effort, but strategy … so support the student in finding another strategy. Effective teachers who actually have classrooms full of children with a growth mindset are always supporting children's learning strategies and showing how strategies created that success.

A post from Graham Brown-Martin in which he recounts a discussion with educator Joe Bower. Joe recently passed away at the beginning of January.

This post from Brown-Martin shares some insight into discussions about education, assessment, and supporting learners. One of anecdotes will guide my work over the coming year:

Two young goldfish are swimming in the water, and they are swimming together and the come across an older goldfish. The older goldfish says to them, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The two younger fish just keep swimming. Finally, one of the younger ones, after the old goldfish is long gone, turns to the other young one and says, "What the hell is water?" I think school is the water. We've been in it for so long, we don't see it. We don't even know it's there. We're on a form of autopilot where we just do it, but we can't even describe it, because we're so used to it.

In my classes and talks I indicate that it is imperative that educators and students know how to create and use screencaptures and screencasts. This post from Richard Byrne takes this a step further and shows a couple tools that can be used to turn these images/videos into formative assessments.

Think about the possibilities as you annotate an image from your computer screen. Think about the questions you can ask students about this content. Byrne shares a couple tools (Formative, Wizer, Google Forms) that can be used to create an assessment item from this image.

An infographic that focused on the digital tools and process involved in conducting research online. This infographic is helpful as it details not only the steps involved in the research process, but some of the tools that can be used in this work.

I'll share this with students in my classes as they develop technology embedded lesson/unit plans.

In a lot of my work I indicate opportunities to improve productivity or integrate digitally agile perspectives into our work processes. This long reading post from The Guardian is a good reality check to ensure that we really do want to head down this path of hyper-productivity.

🔨 Do

I'm sharing this class from Instructables for two reasons.

First, I love experimenting with dough to make great bread and even better pizza dough.

Second, I enjoy the way that they organize the materials for the class. They have you sign in to access the materials. It is also well organized into a series of modules and things that you can make in a short period of time. I'll be mimicking this format soon.

🤔 Consider

"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot." — Audre Lorde

This week: process as opposed to product.

Signal instant messenger I've been promising documenting steps improving privacy and security first in the series I suggest that you install and start to use Signal as well. Text disruption for youth disruptors Susanne Murphy children's books as teaching tool critical media literacies - I'm fine-tuning elements of submission I'd love your comments if you've got the time. YouTube girl mastered dubstep dancing - Adilyn Malcolm using internet to stop rewind and watch videos of best dubstep dancers she documents what she learned powerful video. Carol Dweck growth mindset how praise became consolation prize - I'm intrigued by her focus on praise effort and work process as opposed to product, praise the effort that led to outcome not just effort but strategy support student in finding another. Assessment is not a spreadsheet it's a conversation - Graham Brown-Martin recounts discussion with Joe Bower who recently passed away, one of anecdotes will guide my work over coming year what the hell is water school is the water we've been in it so long we don't see it. Image-based formative assessments - in my classes and talks I indicate it is imperative educators and students know how to create screencaptures and screencasts, Richard Byrne shows tools Formative Wizer Google Forms. Digital research process visually explained infographic - I'll share this with students in my classes as they develop technology embedded lesson unit plans. Time management ruining our lives - in my work I indicate opportunities improve productivity, good reality check do we really want to head down path of hyper-productivity. Bread class Instructables - I love experimenting with dough to make great bread and pizza, I enjoy way they organize materials I'll be mimicking this format soon.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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