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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

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In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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In the early ‘80s, he helped found the Media Arts and Sciences program at the MIT Media Lab, and in it the Epistemology and Learning Group, where I earned my doctorate collaborating with a diverse group of students (50% were women, African Americans, Hispanics, and gays). While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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How Valor Collegiate Academy is Rethinking SEL

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Modeled after high performing school networks such as Summit Public Schools , Uncommon Schools and Denver Schools of Science and Technology , Valor has already proven that its model can produce successful academic results, outperforming all Metro Nashville Public Schools and 99 percent of schools in Tennessee on state testing in its first year.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

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To better understand implicit linguistic biases in our teaching, we must partner with others, especially students, to gain perspectives on how we can model critical consciousness in curriculum design (Cavazos, 2024). 2024): W ho is and what languages are overrepresented/underrepresented in readings, guest speakers, collaborations?

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

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Curriculum must be created in a way that promotes access and diversity, but also provides students with learning experiences relevant to the 21st century and beyond, and prepares them to be successful in a changing globalized society. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, (C), 100. Curriculum and human interests.

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

Faculty Focus

Curriculum must be created in a way that promotes access and diversity, but also provides students with learning experiences relevant to the 21st century and beyond, and prepares them to be successful in a changing globalized society. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, (C), 100. Curriculum and human interests.