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on the political philosophy of educational assessments
(Published: January 21, 2011)
The question Gordon is now asking me to address concerns the possibility of finding different ways to sequence assessments given…
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My (M’I) experience(s) of the Colloquium
(Published: February 23, 2011)
Given a setting that may be "quite an experience," how might one write a research question to investigate the participants'…
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Assessing audiences: identifying reachable designing assessors
(Published: April 14, 2011)
... We are talking about entering ongoing conversations about assessment with professionals and political actors of all types and, potentially,…
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Utopias and dystopias: Futures for education, technology, and the assessment of authority over knowledge.
(Published: April 18, 2011)
In brief, everyone, about, can read Wikipedia (and other sources available on the Web). But Wikipedia writers cannot assess what…
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Practical assessments, perhaps
(Published: April 20, 2011)
Imagine a new Google service. Imagine that Google, as run by some revolutionary government, traced my queries, adapted its answers…
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On ecologically valid assessments
(Published: April 27, 2011)
In everyday life, at home, “learning” is not a simple automatic matter proceeding below deliberation or symbolic expression. In everyday…
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detouring the internet and making it legal
(Published: June 23, 2011)
Two news item, one from Afghanistan, and the other from Guinea by way of New York City. Both deal with…
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Tequila and Mel Gibson’s brain
(Published: October 3, 2011)
What Eagleman never considers is the question of what makes a response more appropriate than another. Early in the book…
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Putting 2 and 2 together, and following up
(Published: October 4, 2011)
This story is told as one person coming up with an idea, refining it, and then convincing people in his…
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On the (pre-)judicial brain
(Published: November 23, 2011)
At the simplest level, the point of having a “judicial” brain is precisely to control and repair what the pre-judicial…
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On the archaeology of action networks
(Published: December 6, 2011)
as the live humans scratch their heads to develop a meta-knowledge about the machines (above the everyday knowledge they may…
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Musings about possibilities in the scholarly life of a professor of education and anthropologist