“Training gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration solves new problems none have solved before.” —Marcia Conner
I am super excited to be heading off for some much-needed vacation time. Soon after I hit the publish button on this, we’ll be loading up and heading out for some time at the lake. I’m looking forward to just sitting around and watching the wind blow by for a while. I hope you have a great weekend. Happy Friday! Thanks for reading.
What I’m Listening to: Since we’ll be on the road, today will be all about the road trip music.
Multiple-Choice Questioning as a Valuable Learning Opportunity
Multiple-choice quizzes are somewhat polarizing in education. Most teachers either love them or hate them. Some see these questions as a way to assess student learning while also providing options. Others believe multiple-choice questions are not very valid or reliable because students are able to guess and may be given credit for information they really did not know. Blake Harvard unpacks this question and shares his thoughts on a necessary component of high-quality multiple-choice questions: all of the alternatives must be competitive.
Devlin Peck has put together a guide that includes everything you need to know about the Experience API (xAPI) and Learning Record Stores (LRS) in 2020.
The Munger Technique: The Best Way To Improve Yourself
We’ve all heard about the magic of compounding interest. Something equally powerful is mental compounding interest. Here’s some advice from the investor Charlie Munger’s book, University of Berkshire Hathaway as shared by Darius Foroux. “He (Munger) got the idea to add a mental compound interest as well. So he decided he would sell himself the best hour of the day to improving his own mind, and the world could buy the rest of his time.”
Joshua Davies has put together a nice toolkit for any facilitator, trainer, leader, & educator looking to shape more meaningful interactions in virtual spaces. Check out this collection that includes a free online course, ebook, and robust toolkit. I’ve found some really useful items in here and I think you will too.
Jane Hart is collecting submissions to find out what are the most popular, useful, valuable, digital tools for learning? Jump over and add your Top 10 to Jane’s 14th Annual Survey to help create the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2020 list.
[design] – Over is another online content creation / design tool.
– Video Recorder A free online tool that allows you to record videos and take pictures with your webcam. All you need is a web camera and a good internet connection.