# 6 Data Mining and Students - a conversation with Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik.
Release Date: 08/16/2018
#9 Cultures of Thinking with Ron Ritchhart
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In this podcast, Dr. Lauren Childs talks with Ron Ritchhart about Cultures of Thinking. They talk about how Ron’s research into areas such as intellectual character, mindfulness, thinking dispositions, teaching for understanding, creativity in teaching and communities of practice led to Cultures of Thinking.
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#8 Formative Assessment and Teacher Development - A Conversation with Dylan Wiliam
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Dylan Wiliam is a world-renowned educational leader and researcher specializing in teacher development and formative assessment. On today's podcast, Dylan shares the key aspects of formative assessment, thoughts on teacher development and formative assessment and some practical ideas to consider for your teaching.
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#7: Student Data, Mining of this Data, and Implications
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The ability to collect, and store, vast amounts of information about students is becoming increasingly easier and cheaper.
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# 6 Data Mining and Students - a conversation with Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik.
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Chris and Hugh are part of a group of scholars and activists who are concerned with the ways ed tech companies have made their way into the classroom in ways that not only erode student privacy and make student data available to advertisers and other “third parties”, but also have the potential to create permanent profiles of students in the name of personalized learning.
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#5: Dr. James Popham - Formative Assessment in Action
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#4 Doug Fisher on Formative Assessment
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Dr. Douglas Fisher has served as a teacher, language development specialist, and administrator in public schools and non-profit organizations, including 8 years as the Director of Professional Development for the City Heights Collaborative.
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# 3: Reflections and implications of John Hattie's Visible Learning Institute at Oakland Schools.
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Michigan ASCD, MEMSPA, and Oakland Schools collaborated to bring John Hattie to Oakland Schools for a Visible Learning Institute. Hear a number of participants share their thinking on the latest research on effective teaching, the implications of effect size, and what contributes to powerful student learning.
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#2 Embodied Brains, Social Minds
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On May 12, 2014, Oakland Schools, will sponsored a day with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. Dr. Immordino-Yang is an internationally recognized cognitive and educational psychologist who studies the brain base of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and education.
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#1 An introduction to Formative Assessment with Margaret Heritage
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Margaret Heritage is a world renowned researcher and author in the area of Formative Assessment. In this podcast, Margaret explains what Formative Assessment is, how it differs from benchmark and interim assessment, the research behind it and key points and understandings for teachers who use, or are beginning to use, the Formative Assessment process.
info_outlineHugh Culik has been a high school English teacher, a novelist, a grant writer, an English Professor and Chair of the UDM English Department, Executive Director of the Upper Peninsula’s Bonifas Art Center, and has been an instructor at Macomb Community College for the past seven years. Throughout these lives, he has frequently published about the relationship of mathematics and literature.
He credits Chris Gilliard for a large part of his skepticism of “digital culture.”
Chris Gilliard has been a professor for 20 years, teaching writing, literature, and digital studies at a variety of institutions, including Purdue University, Michigan State University, the University of Detroit, and currently Macomb Community College. His students have gone on to graduate programs at a variety of schools: University of Colorado, University of Michigan, University of Illinois, Columbia, University of Chicago, and elsewhere. Chris is interested in questions of privacy, surveillance, data mining, and the rise in our algorithmically determined future.
Chris and Hugh are part of a group of scholars and activists who are concerned with the ways ed tech companies have made their way into the classroom in ways that not only erode student privacy and make student data available to advertisers and other “third parties”, but also have the potential to create permanent profiles of students in the name of personalized learning.
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