Media

=Media is the Message=

Making Classroom Assessment Work, Chapters 8, 9 and 10
Four keys to ensuring that collecting and organizing evidence supports student learning in your classroom:
 * Collecting, Organizing and Presenting Evidence**
 * Keep the process simple.
 * Involve students in being responsible for the evidence.
 * Include more than written work as evidence.
 * Help students and parents understand why the evidence is important.

Four parts to successful communication about learning:
 * Communicating about Learning**
 * Students collect and prepare evidence of learning.
 * Students show or demonstrate their learning.
 * Parents respond to students.
 * Feedback supports ongoing learning.

Evaluating and reporting requires professional judgment in response to the following four issues:
 * Evaluating and Reporting**
 * What does the student know, what is she or he able to do, and what can she or he articulate?
 * What areas require further attention or development?
 * In what ways can the student's learning be supported?
 * How is the student progressing in relation to the standards or development for students in a similar age range?

When we learn together, we share experiences that help us understand our thinking. This helps us grow and develop at our own pace... As members of a learning group, we can access the support we need to take risks, or to prevent us from leaping without a parachute.
 * Learning by Ourselves and with Others**

Connectivism
[|New Structures of Learning]

Media is the Message


This concentration on the medium itself, and how it conveys information- rather than on the specific content of the information- is the issue.

Communication
[|Edutopia article]

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