Using LRMI for teachers professional development
Tim Kinkead
Greg Grossmeier
<quote name="Tim Kinkead" date="2012-10-12" time="09:36:55 -0700">
> If so, do alignment URL's exist for the Danielson Framework and other
> common teaching frameworks?
Is there a standardized way of referencing the Danielson Framework,
either (best case) through URIs or (still ok) through standardized
namig?
> Given that many US school systems have
> modified frameworks based on standard frameworks such as Danielson, would a
> recommended school system implementation include a crosswalk from modified
> framework to a standard framework?
or if they have their own standards that could be mapped to bigger ones,
the more mapping information the better.
> Could this be accomplished via the learning registry?
LR is for all educational materials and I would believe that ProDev
would fit that bill.
And, since the metadata needed to mark it up already lives within LRMI,
and LRMI is supported by LR, then you're good to go.
Thanks for the great question,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
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Jim Goodell
It would be valuable for reference sites like danielsongroup.org to know how to tag the site so their frameworks are used to their potential an their site is more discoverable.
CEDS has terms and relationships defined to flexibly work across frameworks. I can suggest a markup based on that.
Tim Farquer
- Will authoring and tagging via Open Author result in tagged resources searchable by the Shared Learning Collaborative? We are an SLC pilot state and I just want to be sure these resources populate search results when the tech goes live.
- Is there a Danielson-type tagging tool (or one in development) that will do the same with our PD resources? We have adopted Danielson as our state default eval model and we have a growing library of PD resources we would like to tag. We are currently exploring ways to ensure these resources also feed a Professional learning map via SLC technology.
Joshua Marks
Tim,
There are a few issues here…
First, with regards to alignment to the Danielson framework: As Greg says, technically IF (That is the bug if), the publisher of this framework provides a URL reference form of the framework with a GUID then you can capture this information in the metadata for the resource (More on this next) and express that in the LRMI tags in the display of this metadata (More on this too). However it appears that the Danielson Group does not provide such a look up reference for external alignment. Too bad. (See: http://www.danielsongroup.org/article.aspx?page=frameworkforteaching )
What is more complex are the alignment types for these criteria. You can still place the text for the aligned skill (domain) into the AlignmentObject’s targetDescription, and in this case the numerical code they do provide in the targetName (e.g. the target description text for the alignment would be “designing Student Assessments”, the targetNmae would be “1F” perhaps, and list “Danielsongroup.org” as the targetAuthority [Note: Still not part of the 1.0 spec Greg -> http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification/alignment-object ]). How you express the alignment type is a good question as these appear to be alignments of teaching practice and not alignments for academic skills the student is to demonstrate (e.g. teaches, assesses, etc.). Perhaps all you really need is a “Is related to” type of alignment in this case. Are you actually using the framework to alignment materials rather than teacher evaluations, and is this the intent of this framework in any way? (Editorial comment there.) Now you or others (ASN, Academic Benchmarks, others) can express this framework in a dataset from, and have each node with a URL, BUT it seems this framework is fully copyrighted with all rights reserved, so you would have to get permission for such use first (I believe).
Now onto the next issue. How you capture the alignment metadata in your content management system is a big question and directly affects the ability to expose this alignment in a useable way for things like the Shared Learning Collaborative. I can not speak to OER Commons functionality other then I do know that they enables alignment to the common core (And perhaps only the common core.) In Curriki any resource can be aligned to any of the core subject frameworks (Math, ELS, Science, Social Studies and Technology) in all 50 states plus the Common Core. If the Danielson framework were available in an XML form, we could load and align to that too. However, there are other ways to align to frameworks that are not published in Curriki that might work for you if you are interested.
All content and metadata in Curriki will have the appropriate LRMI tags wrapped around the display of the data. This will enable search engines to index this microdata at the individual asset, folder and collection level. Here is an example: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_kathyduhl/Unit1Lesson11?bc=;Coll_Group_CurriculumDevelopmentProject-AlgebraModules.CurrikiAlgebraUnit2LinearandExponentialRelationships;Coll_kathyduhl.Algebra1;Coll_kathyduhl.Unit1RelationshipsbetweenQuantitiesandReasoningwithEquations
This is the first lesson of the first unit of a Project Based Algebra course we recently put together. It, like may collections in Curriki, has folders for teacher and student facing resources. Each folder and element of this collection is independently alignable to any number of standards/frameworks. If you click on the “Information tab” in this display, you see the Metadata view for this resource including the title, description, level and other things that are in that process of having LRMI tags added to this display:
Similarly, if you click on the ”Standards” tab you see any and all aliments to learning standards framework and potentially any type of framework (Including the eaching framework in question), and this information is also having LRMI tags added to enable indexing of this content by these alignments-> http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_kathyduhl/Unit1Lesson11?bc=;Coll_Group_CurriculumDevelopmentProject-AlgebraModules.CurrikiAlgebraUnit2LinearandExponentialRelationships;Coll_kathyduhl.Algebra1;Coll_kathyduhl.Unit1RelationshipsbetweenQuantitiesandReasoningwithEquations&viewer=standards
With regard to exposing the same information in OER Common’s Open Author, this is really pending their ability to add the LRMI tags to both the content view and their search index. This is exactly what Curriki is doing in partnership with Creative Commons, see the examples on this forum from a couple of weeks ago. Until they do this, it seems like you will have to take a manual approach to expose the content to things like the SLC and to align to other frameworks (Or use Curriki ;-). Now there is one other way to expose your content to the SLC, and that is with Agilix’s tagger and indexing tool. However that does not support your teaching framework, only the common core. We have been looking at building a “bookmarklet” tool for tagging any URL as a learning resource and expressing full LRMI metadata then indexing that in Curriki’s search tool. This could certainly enable the alternate alignment to the Danielson framework, again if that framework were open. More to come on this.
I hope that helps.
Joshua Marks
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Joshua Marks
The need for common vocabularies and framework authorities has been discussed since day one in the LRMI Technical Working Group (And long before in other forums). It, in the end, is mostly a regional, traditional and governmental authority question. LRMI, as a schema, can not prescribe the specific controlled vocabularies but other organizations can, and must, standardize on them. Well they must if there is any hope of interoperability and re-use. For your needs it seems the SLC and GIM-CCSS initiative is the place to undertake defining and achieving a consensus of commitment around such controlled vocabularies and taxonomies. If CEDS has a proposal for such to place on the table, I for one encourage you to do so.
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Joshua Marks
Lisa,
How would you deal with an alternate alignment, other than the common core, for something like the Danielson framework? And how would you express this in a metadata view/LR record?
Joshua Marks
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