Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteApparently learning to print and write is no longer important after grade one. the focus will be on keyboarding. Why? Did anyone give any serious thought to what we might lose by not teaching people how to write by hand? … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI blogged about sessionals earlier this month and the claim was that sessionals (adjuncts) are sessionals because they don’t want tenure track positions. It may be true for some, but it’s certainly not true for all of us, and it may not … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteRunning Towards Publication, Then Walking Away – Culture Digitally. This article caught my eye for a number of reasons. For one thing, I’m just finishing a book and so I’m thinking about this a fair bit, but for another, I … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThe primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. I came across this while working on my book. This approach has become part of the teaching ideology throughout much of Canada (2006 for most of western Canada, 2010 for … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd so, we come to the last part: Enjoyable vs Unpleasant Students deserve transparency in the way they are to be assessed. In fact, there are two key questions to which every student should be able to expect an answer … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteCollaborative vs Individual For the rest of their professional careers, most graduates will be working in teams rather than individually. We need not only to provide more opportunities to allow them to work in teams, but we must help them … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesCriterion Referenced vs Norm Referenced Poor Norm. He is doomed to be compared against whoever signs up for the same class as him. Doesn’t matter what he can do, it seems, it only matters how he measures up to what everyone … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesCustomized vs Standardized This idea should include customized content as well as customized methods. I recognize that it may not be practical to do this individually in a large class – but it is possible in smaller classes. What is possible, even … Continue reading