October 10, 2012 | Posted At: 03:52 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: (Who Cares What) Research Says , School Life Pop Culture , Teachers, Teaching, Unions , Technology Is Scary
Reform: Hey, Let's Use Klout Scores
There's a UNC professor who's grading kids in part (20 percent!) on their Klout scores, a flawed but popular measure of social media popularity.
It's not the first time this has been tried -- and not necessarily worked (No One Is Getting an A in This Klout College Class, Atlantic).
I think that elementary and secondary teachers should do this -- maybe with Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But only with a portion of students' grades. And then maybe administrators should use Klout or other social measures as part of a teacher's evaluation or for merit pay. What do you think?
All this is just an excuse to run this October 1 New Yorker cartoon: "I'm sorry, Paige, but grades are based on the quality of the writing, not on your Klout score."
Response: "Well you suck. I am cooler than you ANYWAYS. I have a 55, that means people LIKE me, no one likes you, cause you're OLD"
At least thats the way it went down in my head...
Posted by: Alexander Berger | October 11, 2012 at 06:49 AM