Making Learning Visible in a Time of GenAI
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Tim Fawns
Monash Education Academy
How are you feeling right now?
Cold
Building energy, courage and vulnerability
“I don’t know what I’m doing!”
Encountering students
What does it mean to meaningfully encounter your students?
Trust requires credible qualifications
Credible qualifications need
credible evaluations of
credible evidence of learning
Lanes, traffic lights, etc.
AI assisted
AI-independent
Secure
Open
No AI
Some AI
Any AI
It’s all orange. It’s all one lane
Adversarial security measures
Non-adversarial assurance measures
Sneaking past security… by doing things the hard way
Education requires restriction, support and checking in…�
… but this can be collegial and supportive. ��Fostering a sense of knowing the students, what they are learning, and what they can do.
Targeting learning
Learning outcomes
Conceptions of Learning
Educational values
Let’s list some of these
Targeted tasks
What does demonstration of targeted learning look like?
Targeted conditions
What supports and constraints are important to the credibility of that demonstration?
What needs to be seen to feel confident that the demonstration indicates the targeted learning?
Targeted evaluation
Product
Process
Performance
Practice
Targeted learning
Proxies
What can you see through these proxies? �What kinds of evidence do they generate? �How are they evaluated?
Snapshots vs sustained engagement
Pros, cons, possibilities?
Rethinking student encounters
… and feedback as part of assessment
What student encounters exist that you could make use of?
Think of examples where you know your students know. �How could you make more of these? (in both senses of “more”)
An aside: teaching vs assessment
Performance vs performativity��How could you create space for students to explore?��How could you create space (for students and teachers) to make mistakes, and learn from them?
Sampling
Product
Process
Performance
Practice
Targeted learning
Proxies
How might you approach this?
Evaluating as we go
… and not just at the end
Annotation of product, process, performance and practice… in a portfolio? Or a project?
How could you do this?
Evaluation continued
How do we aggregate or synthesise evidence?
How does understanding process help us understand learning?�
How could you do this while managing the workload and authentic engagement?
Going forward… Homework
What could you produce and share with the group?
Lessons learned
About anything. Including things I learned from you :-)