For a while now we’ve been doing some research on tricks, where they originated, and how they developed. We did a series of interviews and used card sorting (see pics), a technique we have used previously working in the technology industry, to discover relationships between tricks, to start to firm up a trick hierarchy or […] The post Ramp & Street Progressing Tracker Cards appeared first on School of Skate.| School of Skate
Natta Building Company has trialled Trimble’s precision grading technology on an upgrade to BMW’s Oxford production facilities.| Construction Management
Hey, so many of you may wonder when you can do what at our lessons and sessions at Copeland Park and so we wanted to simplify it for you, so we created a graphic to help you find your way. The long and short of it is: I know nothing.. Join our free intro class. […]| School of Skate
No one likes dealing with grade-change requests. Here are some tips to help teachers avoid them altogether.| Education Week
If "rigor" is a meaningless term then what should we be using? What are we really talking about?| Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
Beyond Grading: 11 Unexpected Ways Art Teachers Can Use Rubrics Assessment % %| The Art of Education University
it’s time for garlic cleaning – and that means grading garlic too. what’s grading? it’s sorting for size. why would you want to sort for size? cause if you are gonna use…| little house on the urban prairie
The other day in class we were talking about something having to do with weighted averages1. As a familiar example of weighted averages, I had people calculate a weighted GPA for warmup (with weights given by credit hours). While we were discussing this calculation, I mentioned that I think GPAs are wack and we shouldn't use them, but that I wasn't going to get on my soapbox about this. So then a student asked about this on my daily exit quiz: The center of mass of a system of point masses in...| Spencer's blog
What happens if we use an alternative grading setup and a student gets stuck on an early topic?| Robert Talbert, Ph.D.