March 27, 2013

Vonnegut Break

We need a short break from all the SGB stuff. Mark offers that and thank you Mark: Hi Ben, I thought you might be amused by these two links featuring Kurt Vonnegut and his Masters thesis: http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/26/the-shapes-of-stories-by-kurt-vonnegut/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ Best, Mark

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Article Name Change

Note that James Hosler’s article on SBG has been renamed. I’ve had a lot of emails from teachers wondering where it went. I just changed the name to SBG 1. Sorry about the confusion. I’m glad we’re reading so closely though. We have to on this topic right now.

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SBG 2

This is the second in a series of four articles by James on the SBG thread; the other two will appear tomorrow: Ben asked to establish the problem that standards-based grading solves. Why all the bother to change stuff? Good question; I’ll give some thoughts here. (I’ll try to keep it brief. Of course this

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SBG 1

This from James is very important: Ben, I finally had time to sit down and write out my approach to standards-based grading. I have written the first two parts so far, with one more to follow in time. There should be enough, though, to make my point. Part 1 describes the standards themselves: http://jameshosler.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-foreign-language-standards-friendly.html Part

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Update/Three Threads

Activer topics now are: SBG ELA/ELL Class Competitions Videos So I think we can’t have all three of those going at the same time – too much. I would like to go full blast on SBG right now and table the other two for at least a few days. Four SBG articles, all by James but

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