My interpretation of the activity is built upon the ideas presented in a previous post "The Common Core: I'm No Expert" While I used the subtlety or polysemous language to further convey my stance I also tried to use coorelation between a sport that employes a set of well defined rules to accomplish the goal. The means in which the goal is accomplished is very indiviualistic right down to the uniform and equipment. The science and math behind the sport are pretty straight forward, but used differently depending on multiple variables like; technique, equipment, height, weight, strength, singles, doubles.... which parallels the idea that assessing strategies should somehow be part of assessing outcomes, which seems farfetched to me. The parody (Tennis and Common Core) will not be obvious to some, but most people should make the connection of teaching to coaching, that one racquet doesn't fit every person, or that Newton's Laws and Geometry (while key tenets of tennis) are not the only keys to winning a tennis match. That the standards by which players are compared and measured are usually by wins and losses, which rarely encompass the question of (how), but rather just how many? Which leaves the question should every student be judged and compared to every other student based on the outcome of one test?
Images used in the above "Magazine Cover" were recovered from GOOGLE Images with the sole purpose to illustrate an educational idea.
3 comments:
When I look at your magazine cover it looks like it would be a tennis magazine. This leads me to think that the common core with tennis will help me increase my tennis skills because I understand what happens when I hit the ball with my racquet. When I look at the uniform trends coupled with the One style doesn't fit all I think of how much more revealing the clothing choices have become for students. Some of the lettering is hard to read because of the shadows.
Your magazine cover screams to me Tennis. I like how each article topic looks to be completely different from the others. I love your subtext for Uniform Trends “One Style doesn’t fit all”. I was drawn in my this text and only guess what this article would read about.
Your magazine cover is so clever! I never would have related tennis to math. I think that it is genius to get people on board to read about common core standards through a seemingly alternative subject matter. bravo!
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