Module 5 - Peer Analysis
The Peer Analysis of Gagan's Professional Community: Edutopia
I really enjoyed reading Gagan’s blog and journal entries. It was a great reading along the process that she took as she grew a deeper connection with her professional community. Through random searches or general researching in the past few years, I have often come across and appreciated the information I have received through Edutopia. I was interested to read Gagan’s experiences from connecting with this community.
It was also was engaging to recognize and reflect on the similarities and differences of the context of practice between Gagan’s professional community and my own.
Similarities:
There is a lot of connection between Project Zero and Edutopia. Through a quick search I found multiple sources of information that posted the philosophies of Project Zero. Edutopia seems to act as a platform for a variety of philosophies and those of Project Zero fit with the core of some of them.
From my week at Project Zero Classroom, I learned a lot about two areas of focus and was privileged to see many presenters. This included learning about multiple intelligence by Howard Gardner and creating cultures of thinking by Ron Ritchhart.
Edutopia posted these articles and provides a space for discussion on both of these:
Cultures of Thinking - A Bridge to The Future: Interview with Ron Ritchhart
Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences
In both of these postings it is pointed out that Howard Gardner is the Senior Director of Project Zero, and Ron Ritchhart is a senior investigator for Project Zero. Through my own work in my professional community, I am currently following both of these educators on twitter:
@RonRitchhart
@DrHowardGarder
Both Project Zero and Edutopia have similar ideas of assessment as quoted from Gagan’s blog:
“…importance of feedback, the power of self- and peer-assessments, ensuring that feedback is useful for student improvement and learning, developing self-regulation skills through routine self-assessment strategies and so forth.”
The Visions of Project Zero and Edutopia:
4 of the major focuses of my week at Project Zero included:
The major difference between these two professional communities is their scope. Project Zero has very specific, and compared to Edutopia, limited goals. Project Zero has very clear intentions, with the focus on how information is shared with students and how the students share their knowledge. This is supported through their major projects of:
Agency by Design
Visible Thinking
Globalizing the Classroom
Cultures of Thinking
Edutopia acts a resource for all the ideas as stated about through Project Zero – and so much more. It has a much broader vision and thus includes a stronger mix of philosophies and curriculum practices.
I really enjoyed reading Gagan’s blog and journal entries. It was a great reading along the process that she took as she grew a deeper connection with her professional community. Through random searches or general researching in the past few years, I have often come across and appreciated the information I have received through Edutopia. I was interested to read Gagan’s experiences from connecting with this community.
It was also was engaging to recognize and reflect on the similarities and differences of the context of practice between Gagan’s professional community and my own.
Similarities:
There is a lot of connection between Project Zero and Edutopia. Through a quick search I found multiple sources of information that posted the philosophies of Project Zero. Edutopia seems to act as a platform for a variety of philosophies and those of Project Zero fit with the core of some of them.
From my week at Project Zero Classroom, I learned a lot about two areas of focus and was privileged to see many presenters. This included learning about multiple intelligence by Howard Gardner and creating cultures of thinking by Ron Ritchhart.
Edutopia posted these articles and provides a space for discussion on both of these:
Cultures of Thinking - A Bridge to The Future: Interview with Ron Ritchhart
Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences
In both of these postings it is pointed out that Howard Gardner is the Senior Director of Project Zero, and Ron Ritchhart is a senior investigator for Project Zero. Through my own work in my professional community, I am currently following both of these educators on twitter:
@RonRitchhart
@DrHowardGarder
Both Project Zero and Edutopia have similar ideas of assessment as quoted from Gagan’s blog:
“…importance of feedback, the power of self- and peer-assessments, ensuring that feedback is useful for student improvement and learning, developing self-regulation skills through routine self-assessment strategies and so forth.”
The Visions of Project Zero and Edutopia:
4 of the major focuses of my week at Project Zero included:
- What does it mean to understand? How does it develop?
- What are the roles of reflection and assessment in learning?
- How can we nurture critical thinking and creativity?
- How can we design for and with a variety of learners and contexts?
- how to find fact-based information;
- how to assess the quality of information;
- how to creatively and effectively use information to accomplish a goal.
The major difference between these two professional communities is their scope. Project Zero has very specific, and compared to Edutopia, limited goals. Project Zero has very clear intentions, with the focus on how information is shared with students and how the students share their knowledge. This is supported through their major projects of:
Agency by Design
Visible Thinking
Globalizing the Classroom
Cultures of Thinking
Edutopia acts a resource for all the ideas as stated about through Project Zero – and so much more. It has a much broader vision and thus includes a stronger mix of philosophies and curriculum practices.
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