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Four Conditions of Real Engagement
Introduction Engagement is one of the most overused and underdefined words in education. It gets mistaken for noise. For participation. For novelty. For compliance wrapped in energy. But engagement is not about keeping students…
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The SIGNAL Framework: Designing for Visible Thinking in the AI Era
For a long time, we’ve treated student work as a proxy for thinking. Essay = understandingProject = masteryDiscussion post = engagement And for the most part, that worked. Because producing those artifacts required the…
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Judgment-Centered Design
Judgment-Centered Design A framework for making student thinking visible in the age of AI This framework adapts the DECIDE decision-making model (Mintzberg et al., 1976; later variations across disciplines) for use in instructional design…
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The Judgment Gap: What AI Actually Revealed About Learning
Frameworks AI did not create the assessment problem. It exposed a structural flaw that had been there all along: we confused finished work with visible thinking. The Artifact Assumption For much of modern schooling,…
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Bloom’s Taxonomy Didn’t Fail.
Our Use of It Did. For years, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been treated like a staircase. First, students remember.Then they understand.Then they apply.Eventually—if we’re lucky—they analyze, evaluate, and create. This model has shaped lesson plans,…
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