Better Links to Uri Treisman’s Talk at NCTM

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1. Duane Swacker says:

   May 21, 2013 at 9:49 am

   I’ll repost my earlier one here:

   “He spoke about student performance on international tests; about the effect of poverty on achievement;”

   It’s good to hear that many more are speaking out about the inanities that comprise the edudeformers agenda. However when we use the edudeformers framing we lose from the start, when we insist on using invalid and bogus “data” such as are the international test score results instead of attacking the standardization movement beast at the the heart which is the total invalidity of the process itself then we set ourselves up to “lose the language game.” When we talk of “student achievement” based on the invalid measures of standardized tests instead of the student and learning process which should be a very intimate,* personalized process in each class room between the teacher and the students and what it will take to enhance said process, we “lose the language game.”

   When will those closest to the students, the teachers, administrators and parents take it upon themselves to quit playing this game of the Manx cat chasing its tail?

   *close, near, warm, friendly, dear, bosom, cherished, familiar-standardized testing, cold and hearless, is just the opposite of what the teaching and process should be.

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   • Duane Swacker says:

     May 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

     add Cheshire in front of Manx

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2. Dan Meyer says:

   May 21, 2013 at 10:58 am

   Thanks for spreading the talk around. Can I recommend swapping out the embedded video with this one:

   I thought the talk was so great I went ahead and edited the slides into the video for easier viewing.

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   • teachingeconomist says:

     May 21, 2013 at 9:46 pm

     The slides are a real help.

     It would have been more persuasive if he had compared wealthy students in the United States to wealthy students in Finland, South Korea, or Japan, rather than the aver

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     • teachingeconomist says:

       May 21, 2013 at 9:47 pm

       Dang touchscreen. Rather than the average student in those countries.

3. Kate Nowak says:

   May 21, 2013 at 11:02 am

   Here are the video and slides edited together by Dan Meyer: http://vimeo.com/65731353

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4. Danielle Christensen says:

   May 21, 2013 at 12:44 pm

   Here’s a version that has the slides embedded with the speech, which was very helpful. http://vimeo.com/65731353

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