Comments on: How do you feel about standards? http://blog.curriki.org/2009/10/13/how-do-you-feel-about-common-core-standards/ Curriculum + Wiki = Curriki Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:44:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Meredith Phillips http://blog.curriki.org/2009/10/13/how-do-you-feel-about-common-core-standards/#comment-128 Meredith Phillips Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:55:15 +0000 http://blog.curriki.org/?p=244#comment-128 Hi Daniel, Kudos to you for the funded assessment projects! Curriki is very interested in including assessments with materials, or directing users to strong assessments that would round out their OER materials. Are you using Curriki for the development of these assessments? I appreciate your feedback on standards and love the idea of reframing to give guidance. Have you taken our standards survey linked from the homepage (and the blog above?) I hope you will! Best, Meredith Hi Daniel, Kudos to you for the funded assessment projects! Curriki is very interested in including assessments with materials, or directing users to strong assessments that would round out their OER materials. Are you using Curriki for the development of these assessments?

I appreciate your feedback on standards and love the idea of reframing to give guidance. Have you taken our standards survey linked from the homepage (and the blog above?) I hope you will! Best, Meredith

]]> By: Daniel Hickey http://blog.curriki.org/2009/10/13/how-do-you-feel-about-common-core-standards/#comment-116 Daniel Hickey Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:11:48 +0000 http://blog.curriki.org/?p=244#comment-116 I am a huge fan of OER and have several funded project aiming to refine more participatory approaches to assessment which promise to make OER activities more useful and used, and provide a framwork for continually improving them. My concern with standards is that they are so narrowly written as skills, when many of the things that students are doing in these activiteis are better characterized as "practices" because they are more social. While I think the alignment is crucial for helping teachers use these activities, I would like to see them reframed in ways that the provide guidance for enacting the activities, and not just testing outcomes. I am a huge fan of OER and have several funded project aiming to refine more participatory approaches to assessment which promise to make OER activities more useful and used, and provide a framwork for continually improving them. My concern with standards is that they are so narrowly written as skills, when many of the things that students are doing in these activiteis are better characterized as “practices” because they are more social. While I think the alignment is crucial for helping teachers use these activities, I would like to see them reframed in ways that the provide guidance for enacting the activities, and not just testing outcomes.

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