Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom

Konrad Glogowski was kind enough to spend an hour with teachers from my school division talking about what assessment looks like in the 21st century.

I think the ideas here are going to challenge some of your thinking and give you lots to consider.

Enjoy.

Honour Our Attempts

From Jans Smiths class blog

Claire Thompson left this comment on a recent post pointing to Jan Smith’s classroom blog and the disclaimer that sits on the left sidebar of her blog. This is a huge issue for many teachers considering posting work online. Not only are the worried about controlling content and concerned about how others will [...]

Are We Text Snobs?

This post will be double posted to the tech learning blog shortly.

Schools are text snobs. Most people reading this are text snobs. Our institutions are built around the written word. That in itself is not bad and we owe much of our culture, knowledge and understanding to the written word. It’s not our fault, we’ve [...]

Student Involved Assessment

Reposted from the Tech & Learning blog

The concept of student involved assessment is hard to deny as a powerful learning practice. Students taking care of their own learning and being able to use meta-cognition to dissect understanding and progress and seek ideas and support to learn more. The work of Rick Stiggins and others provides [...]

An Open Letter to my Students

Dear Students,

Because of institutional requirements and societal norms, I’m required to give you a grade. This grade falls between 0-100 and in some way is intended to inform you and others how well you did in this course. The importance that number is given is appalling. While I do my best to provide you with [...]