Everything You Know is Wrong
If you think about how we do education and research long enough, you realize how far off-base things have gotten.
- A Curricular Vision from 2045 -- how schools should work
- Three Transformative Agile Ideas for Education
- Three Transformative Agile Ideas for Research -- like a PhD
- Rubrics: What's Wrong, What's Better -- a rant
- Ungrading / Going Gradeless -- a short webinar presented to the NCEER group, February 22, 2021
- Entrepreneurship 101: Or, What's a nice PhD student like you doing in a course like this?
Research
Active projects focus on improving the quality while reducing the cost of feedback-driven, learn-by-doing, authentic courses:
- Why Helping Struggling Beginning Programmers is Not an AI-Complete Problem -- short talk presented at the first Inaugural Symposium on Computer Science and Learning Sciences
- Twenty Years Gradeless -- "do, review, re-do"; who needs grades?
- My Rubric Rant -- "I come here to bury rubrics, not to praise them"
- Do — Review — Redo -- a talk I gave on critique-based assessment at the 2015 Northwestern Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Forum
Prior projects focused on making interactive learning environments as easy to author as textbooks.
- Indie -- Investigate and Decide Goal-Based Scenario simulators
- Socratic ASK (SASK) (PDF)
- The Critiquing Model for mentoring and assessment in courses
Affiliations
Learning Sciences (courtesy appointment)
Technology and Social Behavior
Acumenical Inc. (Vice President)
