Friday, November 5, 2010

Exploring exploring Ideas

What is a Rubric?

Heidi Goodrich, a rubrics expert, defines a rubric as
"a scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece of work
or 'what counts.'"

So a rubric for a multimedia project will list the things
the student must have included to receive a certain score
or rating.

Rubrics help the student figure out how their project
will be evaluated.

Goodrich quotes a student who said  he didn't much
care for rubrics because "if you get something wrong,
your teacher can prove you knew what you were
supposed to do
."

Exploring Ideas
 
My worthy colleague’s description
of  classroom as even so a place
for exploring ideas haunts me.
 
Doc Jensen’s alma matrix rings in my
years:  stalwart pioneers pioneering
frontiers yet unknown.
 
       Exploration of ideas! 
 
Frontiers still unknown? Outlaw territory,
courses without borders,  abduction &
illegal  immigration; stochastic archers
shooting  noetic speculation, leaning
to listen for some poet in the storm
throwing rice at rhinos & barn
doors from inside looking
through glasses darkly,
playing guitar upside
down fiddle tunes
backwards & no
body knows 
how cold
my toes
are growing
are growing.
 
Assess this:  Hawthorne’s Roderick Usher
would grab his breast: “It gnaws me!
It gnaws me!”
he would cry, his bosom
serpent twisting & turning beneath his sternum
 

 
“We shall never cease from exploration," says
Eliot: " and the end of our exploring will be to
arrive
  at where we started, and know  the place
for
the first time. ”   (Assess this.)
 
               The exploration of ideas!
             Ex-quisite
      (“from the question; from the quest.” )
.  

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