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Origins of Assessment – Part 2: All That Counts Shall Be Counted – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Origins of Assessment – Part 2: All That Counts Shall Be Counted. The Context of Schooling: 1845-1905. Within/between schools and to facilitate the. Sorting of students (US Congress, 1992). Both in Canada and the US, the concern for quantitatively measuring students and schools increased as schooling became universal, free, and compulsory, since taxpayers wanted assurances that their money was being spent wisely (US Congress, 1992).
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Stop me when this becomes a text… – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Stop me when this becomes a text…. According to Walter Ong (2002), the word “text” etymologically stems from the root meaning “to weave.” Robert Bringhurst further elaborates on this ancient metaphor whereby. Was considered a thread and the. JP Gee defines literacy as. The mastery of a secondary discourse involving print,. In my new literacies course we explored how a “text” is more than just words on a page, and can include ...Note: The...
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Uncategorized – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Origins of Assessment – Part 4: Epilogue. The structure of the global economy today is quite different compared to the way it was in the industrial era. Instead of having an economic system rooted in the manufacture and delivery of physical goods, the economy of leading nations…. December 23, 2014. Origins of Assessment – Part 3: The Myth of the Metals. December 17, 2014. December 9, 2014. November 20, 2014. Over the past two days I̵...
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Education 2.0 – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. The following video was created for one of my graduate courses at OISE (KMD2003 “Technology and Education,” taught by Megan Boler). This video represents my first attempt at stop-motion (which was a challenge in itself! This medium allowed me to engage in “conversation” with renowned educators, vis-a-vis my claymation figures, by parsing/re-mixing some of their online speeches/TED talks and inserting my own voice into the mix. His compon...
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Links to Practice: Metadiscourse of 9-year-olds – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Links to Practice: Metadiscourse of 9-year-olds. However, in the case of this particular elementary school, this wasn’t so. Today we’re going engage in some meta-discourse, explained the vice-principal to a class of Grade 4 students. Meta-discourse; that’s a big, long word [writes it on the board]. Does anyone know what it means? For example, in a recent unit on Optics students observed the refraction of a straw when it was put into a gl...
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Publications – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Simon, R., Acosta, A. Houtman, E. (2013). Memeration : Exploring Academic Authorship in Online Spaces. In R. Ferdig, and K. Pytash (Eds.), Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing (pp. 54-68). Hershey, PA: doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4345-1.ch004 Download PDF. 2013) The role of epistemic cognition in complex collaborative inquiry curricula. MA Thesis. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. Download PDF. Slotta, J....
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About – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Formerly an environmental scientist, I began my career as a high school educator in 2009, with teachables in science (biology), geography, and mathematics. My teaching experiences sparked a number of questions about my practice and the education system in general, which led me to my graduate work at OISE and my research with the Encore Lab. Other interests include mashup-making. Art, climbing, and going on adventures. Origins of Assessme...
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Representation, meaning, and language – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Representation, meaning, and language. In his interview with Eve Bearne, Gunther Kress argues that literacy is “that which is about representation” (Kress, in Bearne, 2005, p. 288). Because “literacy” implies something that is mediated through text, in my previous post I questioned the idea of what constitutes a “text.” After further consideration, I feel that. Is the key; therefore, for the purposes of this post I have decided to pursue.
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November 2014 – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Origins of Assessment – Part 1: Establishing the Competitive Ideal. Introduction This series of posts explores the history of educational assessment in North America, with an emphasis on Canada, from the years 1800 to 1950. For the purposes of this analysis, this timespan has been divided into three major intervals: (1)…. November 20, 2014. Origins of Assessment – Part 4: Epilogue. Theme by: Theme Horse.
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December 2014 – Alisa Acosta
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Alisa Acosta Google Plus. Educator, Scientist, Researcher, Knowmad. Origins of Assessment – Part 4: Epilogue. The structure of the global economy today is quite different compared to the way it was in the industrial era. Instead of having an economic system rooted in the manufacture and delivery of physical goods, the economy of leading nations…. December 23, 2014. Origins of Assessment – Part 3: The Myth of the Metals. December 17, 2014. December 9, 2014. Origins of Assessment – Part 4: Epilogue.