Luke Nakonechny GDPI 810: Integrated Planning Instruction and Assessment

Connections Connection to Education Week blog post by Starr Sackstien Starr Sackstien is an author on the Hack Learning Series team and you can see her bio below.  Her book on Hacking Assessment was of particular interest to me in this process because it involves changing the way educators think about assessment.   Through my exploration of the hack learning platform I discovered that Starr Sackstien was an active contributor to EdWeeks Work in Progress and I was able to read her posts from the spring and summer of 2018. A post on July 31, 2018 discussed the competing values in education.  The post challenged the conception of education being reformed to the idea of educational transformation.  Sackstien discusses that this transformation should reflect on treating each student as an individual and using teaching and assessment to respond to those needs.   Competing Values in Education Make Real Transformation Challenging http://blogs.edweek.or...

My Electronic Journal The professional community I have decided to engage with is @hackmylearning.  Earlier this year a colleague exposed me to the books in the Hack Learning series.  The series includes books on a variety of different topics from from project based learning to assessment and much more.  One of the advantages to the ideas in these books is that they present practical progressive ideas that teachers can implement within just about any setting.   This particular community is attractive and applicable to my professional practice because presents "hack" ideas that can be implemented in the classroom.  The word "hack" in this series suggests that there are solutions to problems that others may not necessarily see. My personal definition of a hack is something that can improve the quality or efficiency of an activity without necessarily working harder.   This absolutely applies to my professional practice because often making changes...