You all did such a fantastic job earlier this year with the #500words campaign we though that, in this final week of #purposedassess, we’d try it again.
What’s the purpose of assessment?
Over to you! Add a comment below with a link to your blog post/answer.
Doug and Andy are delighted to announce that after much negotiation and explorative work, Purpos/ed is now registered as a Co-operative Community Interest Company! We’d like to express our thanks to Kevin Marquis of Sunderland SES for guiding us through the process. Our Company Number is: 07739279
We’re serious about provoking and sustaining a national, and even international, debate about the purpose(s) of education. To do so costs money which Doug and Andy, as Kickstarters, need process and disburse. Having separate business accounts keeps things transparent.
Having a clear structure also allows for people to step up and take more responsibility as Purpos/ed grows. We’d really like to get people to make a commitment to Purpos/ed going forward, so stay tuned for ways you can get involved!
There’s actually two elements to this:
Co-operative – an “autonomous associations of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through [a] jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise.”
Community Interest Company - “a new type of company introduced by the United Kingdom government in 2005… designed for social enterprises that want to use their profits and assets for the public good.” CICs “work for community benefit with the relative freedom of the non-charitable company form to identify and adapt to circumstances, but with a clear assurance of not-for-profit distribution status”. Most importantly for Purpos/ed, CICs have an ‘asset lock’ meaning that if and when Purpos/ed no longer exists, assets can only be transferred to another organisation with an asset lock. This means that no individausl can benefit through the sale of resources that have been produced by the wider community.
We’re in the early stages of planning the next Purpos/ed event for November with Eylan Ezekiel who’s working to setup ONSchool in Oxford. In addition, Tom Barrett has mooted a #purposedassess-focused meetup in Nottingham sometime in September.
What would you like to see? How would you like to get involved?
Continuing into Week 3 of #purposedassess we’re going to continue using Quora to answer the question:
Are ‘Open Badges’ the future of educational assessment?
Join in at: http://www.quora.com/Are-Open-Badges-the-future-of-educational-assessment
We’re moving into Week 2 of #purposedassess and this time we’re asking:
How should we assess people in educational contexts?
The platform we’ll be using this week is the question-and-answer site Quora which is free to join and use.
Join in at: http://www.quora.com/How-should-we-assess-people-in-educational-contexts?q=how+should+we+assess
(take a moment to familiarise yourself with Quora – you can, for example, thank people for their contributions and vote answers up and down!)
After a short lull after the flurry of excitement that was February-June 2011, we’re back with another campaign. This time, we’re focusing on assessment.
Although educators are only part of the people who take part in Purpos/ed campaigns, they’re an important part. As many of this group have a summer break we thought it would be a good time for all of us to take stock and begin with the question:
1. What’s the purpose of assessment?
We’ll be debating this between Monday 1st and Sunday 7th August. Following that, we’ll either continue with the same question into the second week or, more likely, go off at a particular tangent with a new question on assessment emerging from the initial debate.
Want to get involved? We’re going to use Google+ as the platform this time* so follow us (add us to a circle) by going to http://gplus.to/purposed
Image CC BY-NC-SA KTVee
*If you need an invitation to Google+ add a comment below and we’ll sort you out!
Keith had this to say:
I originally set out to interview someone who could talk about learning and widening access, but realised in the run up to my #purposedfutured slot that I was going to be at two quite different conferences where I could get some additional perspectives. So, we’ve got Julia Fotheringham talking about FE students transitioning into HE, Karen Ver talking about professional learning and technologies we don’t yet have, and Richard Pinet talking truthiness and citizenship.
You can grab the #purposedfutured interviews as a podcast by visiting our Huffduffer page.
You can grab the #purposedfutured interviews as a podcast by visiting our Huffduffer page.
You can grab the #purposedfutured interviews as a podcast by visiting our Huffduffer page.
You can grab the #purposedfutured interviews as a podcast by visiting our Huffduffer page.
There’s two parts to this interview:
You can grab the #purposedfutured interviews as a podcast by visiting our Huffduffer page.
