Re An DDoS attack seems to have taken down California's (and maybe Nevada's) Common Core tests this week

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
Date: Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] An DDoS attack seems to have taken down California's (and
maybe Nevada's) Common Core tests this week
To: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross.stapletongray () gmail com>, DAVID FARBER <
dave () farber net>


Interesting thing about the date.  I got news from people directly involved
(teachers and techies) at a local school - so I doubt that they were
relaying 2 year old events.  ;-)

Somehow I suspect that the article got its own date wrong - dunno how -
perhaps it was the same people who set up the unprotected test.  ;-)

        --karl--

On 5/3/17 9:39 AM, Ross Stapleton-Gray wrote:

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:49 AM
> Subject: An DDoS attack seems to have taken down California's (and maybe
> Nevada's) Common Core tests this week

For values of this week that were... two years ago.  NB that that's a
report from 5/1/15.

Point taken that current connectivity for a student test (as opposed to
offline test-and-upload) seems like a bad idea. Coachella Valley Unified,
as a 1-to-1 district (where each student is either assigned computer during
school hours, in the lower grades, or loaned one, in the upper) chose iPads
because they can be used offline (unlike Chromebooks)... they also made
interesting investments in wifi access, e.g., in partnering with local
businesses, and deploying routers on old vehicles equipped with solar
panels, to provide access to lesser-served communities.

On beyond this, though, is the question of whether or not "testing" of
students should evolve to recognize how one actually learns and works in
the Information Age. No one I work with is locked in a room for two hours
to accomplish any task, but probably addresses all of their tasks through
continual interaction with disparate online resources and connections with
friends and experts. We test kids on knowing the capitals of countries in
Africa (which could be looked up by anyone with access to Wikipedia or the
CIA World Factbook and copied and pasted), but not on how well they can
pull in material on a question new to them in a subject they have some
familiarity with but incomplete knowledge of, and synthesize, and frame
questions on it for others to assist in the solving of.

Ross

Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
Albany, CA



-------------------------------------------
Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now
RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/18849915-ae8fa580
Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-aa268125
Unsubscribe Now: 
https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-32545cb4&post_id=20170503125458:39559D6C-3021-11E7-9227-D945E4A68A11
Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com