#AuthenticAssessments

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Trends and Innovations in AI University Curriculum and Teaching Methods 

As harnessing AI’s potential while navigating risks becomes imperative across domains, higher education is undergoing profound curriculum and pedagogy transformation to contextualize socio-technical complexities. #pedagogy #innovation

Integration with ethics, systems thinking, design and policy is expanding. Co-creation partnerships with communities being impacted is prioritized for inclusive innovation. Instruction leverages immersive technology through augmented reality, simulations and virtual worlds to engage learners as creators grounded in lived realities versus mere consumers of abstract technical information.

Even assessments are becoming more authentic, evaluative diverse talents beyond test performance and emphasizing purpose-driven experiential learning. Universities are sites integrally shaping our AI future. #ar #vr #EthicalCounselling #EnvoyOverseas

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Rohan Sonavne

Soham Pawaskar

Disclaimer: The perspectives shared in this blog are not intended to be prescriptive. They should act merely as viewpoints to aid overseas aspirants with helpful guidance. Readers are encouraged to conduct their own research before availing the services of a consultant.

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Prologue

It all started with an AB rhyme, A series of words all strung in a line. Before text response, before assessment, I would use poetry as a form of refreshment.  

Writing became a personal salvation. Perfectionism caused a block in creation. Technology changed the mode, the form. And critical questioning became the norm.

My classroom is one of dialogue, Analysis through handwriting, spoken and blog. Negotiation with students is the key Of my classroom that is to be…

… Or not to be? That is the question.

So, enjoy your journey through this site. Non-linear, form-tastic, a miniscule insight To this world of writing inside my mind, Who knows what treasures you may find?

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#Grade8ScienceTeachers #AuthenticAssessment #Science #SDOQuezon #TGIF (at M.I. Sevilla's Resort - Lucena City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeDUN6WPKEgXKbxFZaDFEYoJF-lmUBT0M1jdu80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#GO! Educators, Parents, Learners ages 13 and older!!! I laughed soooo hard ..... during intervals. Don't miss the messages concerning: #DIFFERENTIATEDInstruction #MULTIPLEIntelligences #AUTHENTICAssessments. I praise God alone for giving discernment and Word of Knowledge. However, the vessels he used to bring clarity and competence to my #InstructionalDelivery were: Judson Sapp, Betty Strickland, Marva Collins, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Jawanza Kunjufu, Maria Roberts, and the brilliant #MarciaTate! (You may be a genius but if you do not possess affective and effective strategies, styles, or techniques, your teaching is worthless) Equipped with the knowledge that "children dont care what you know; they just want to know that you care". I was able to incorporated "what I processed" to affect lives. Parents and Educators, know this, there are no dumb students. Learners, know this, your test scores do not represent what you know. Consider my definition of test scores: "Test score - a numeric represention of the validity of how presented information is processed." A well - known psychologist encourages and inspires us with these words. . . "If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn." #IgnacioEstrada (at Raising Our Sons in America - ROSA) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoebK_YDDRr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hvxg4pa4em0u

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@sashatberr: Student: “It’s motivating to get assignments that actually go somewhere.” As opposed to random assignments that are just to fulfill requirements. #AuthenticAssessments #andragogy #Sigh #shapingedu #LXD

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Photos are low quality but not the teacher nor the teaching. #AuthenticAssessment #Science #SDOQuezon #DemonstrationTeaching #TGIF (at M.I. Sevilla's Resort - Lucena City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeDTwH2P-t2AFJAKuzcGveF5nUiMpUwgqfU8WU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Technology in the classroom: Is it worth it?

What can technologies do that pen and paper can’t?

I regularly participate in journal writing, as it clears my head. I was only ever able to handwrite, as it felt inherently more personal, however typing on a computer was able to capture the speed of my thoughts more efficiently, though still never fast enough. Locke explains this as ‘different media are not equally effective in aiding the externalization of inner thought’ (2014, p. 34). The computer was also quick to point out my mistakes in grammar, spelling and punctuation, though with the free-flow style of my writing, these mistakes were not important to me. Nevertheless, I couldn’t leave my entry with all the red squiggly lines and uncapitalized letters, so I edited my own thoughts. It felt wrong, yet I couldn’t leave my imperfect thoughts typed so haphazardly.

So, Jasmin, why did you choose to format your assignment in a blog?

As writing is a deeply intimate exercise, students should be given opportunities to express themselves in a variety of forms. Blogs and Vlogs allow for a multimodal and technology-based focus, which presents a portfolio of ideas, musings and creations which reach beyond the restrictive limits of a traditional essay response. In our ‘networked and electronically connected world’, multigeneric technologies such as this blog allow for authentic contexts to be realised in assessment rather than imagined (Jetnikoff 2009, p. 307). As students today are finding online forms of self-expression through various social media sites, these platforms can be used collaboratively to connect the outside world to the classroom setting in an authentic context, with a potential ‘real’ audience beyond the teacher or assessor.  

Are you saying we should ditch traditional forms of writing?

Not necessarily! Language skills should continue to be taught, as the act of handwriting can crystallise syntax, grammar, rhythm and provide excellent opportunities for drafting and editing processes. However, I can’t imagine writing essays these days on paper, as we expect our students to. My thoughts translate to the page in messy phrases, where the links are not immediately apparent. I construct my essays as though they are a puzzle, rather than a letter. Sometimes whole chunks of text are moved, shifted and deleted. However, our students are expected to handwrite for hours on end and spill free-flowing thoughts onto the page in a logical, coherent and ordered manner. Technology has changed the nature of drafting and editing to become a live and fluid process, and yet there will always be a place for the pen and paper, both in my heart and within the classroom.