🔢📚 In today's "shocking" revelation, it appears that US high schoolers are continuing their epic quest to set new low scores in math and reading. Meanwhile, a war of headlines rages on, leaving us to wonder if anyone will ever find X or read about it competently. 😂🔍
https://apnews.com/article/naep-reading-math-scores-12th-grade-c18d6e3fbc125f12948cc70cb85a520a #USEducation #MathScores #ReadingSkills #LowScores #HeadlineWar #StudentPerformance #HackerNews #ngated

US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

https://apnews.com/article/naep-reading-math-scores-12th-grade-c18d6e3fbc125f12948cc70cb85a520a

#HackerNews #USEducation #StudentPerformance #MathDecline #ReadingScores #EducationNews

#StandardizedTestingDebate, #EducationAssessment, #StudentPerformance, #TeachingMethods
Explore the intricate world of standardized testing and its impact on education.

http://clusterado.com/2024/01/15/decoding-standardized-testing-pros-cons-and-impacts-on-education/

@classicalmusic Tomorrow (Monday, April 17) at 7:30 PM EDT Join Interlochen Arts Academy’s piano students as they celebrate the remarkable legacy of keyboard artist, teacher, conductor, and noted Johann Sebastian Bach scholar Dr. Rosalyn Tureck. Enjoy a program of Bach’s diverse and masterful works for solo piano and other keyboard instruments. #ClassicalMusic #Bach #Webcast #Interlochen #InterlochenCenterForTheArts #StudentPerformance

https://www.interlochen.org/events/dr-rosalyn-tureck-memorial-concert-2023-04-17

I just posted a significant bit of analysis for #SentientSyllabus, a proof of concept for personalized assignments.

https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/assignment-and-agency

In the eighties, Benjamin Bloom (the Bloom of #Bloomstaxonomy) reported that one on one instruction can boost #studentperformance by two sigma! Ever since then, we have been searching for ways to scale this for our current realities in #education - but no breakthrough has appeared. Why are we not teaching this way if the results are so compelling? Because, as Bloom said: "it is too costly for most societies to bear on a large scale".

With the arrival of #generativeAI that limit will change.

I have worked out a proof of concept for personalized #assignment design that needs only a spreadsheet and ChatGPT. The spreadsheet builds a prompt that students can customize, ChatGPT writes out the assignment. No specialized software, technology, or third party involvement are needed.

Of course, the results need to be vetted - but the improvement becomes part of the learning process, and overall the process hands agency for learning back to the student: the assignment becomes theirs.

The proof of concept is done from the perspective of a #ComputationalBiology course I taught last year - but adapting it to other fields of #higherEd should be trivial. There is nothing inherently #STEM like in the approach - #humanities, #writing, #languageLearning ... there is no reason why this would not also work for other levels of education.

The potential is remarkable.

I encourage you to boost and share - this will be valuable for educators at all levels, and it will give us very concrete ways to harness the new opportunities. The key is #Agency .

:-)

a reminder (or new if you didn't see the earlier post) Webcast tonight at 7:30PM (EST US) from Interlochen Center for the Arts. The Jazz Orchestra will be presenting Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite. I've heard these kids before and they are simply amazing. Tune in to see some incredible up and coming talent.

#Jazz #ArtsEducation #Music #Education #StudentPerformance #Webcast
@jazz

https://www.interlochen.org/events/jazz-orchestra-duke-ellingtons-nutcracker-suite-2022-12-04