I’ve had many opportunities to share my views and practices around assessment with a particular focus on how we use technology but also shift the conversation towards grading and more on documentation and reflection. A really important component of all of this is how we model our thinking and learning. Inquiry isn’t just for students. I share my learning project where I learned to play the guitar and am always on the look out for educators who do similar. It’s great to see teachers sharing their stories of learning in public.
Friday I was conducting a workshop with educators in Winnipeg and Roy Norris, who I’ve met a few times shared a project he did this year with his family. Living in the prairies we drive by fields of wheat on a regular basis and he wondered as perhaps many of us have, “How much wheat do you need to grow in order to make a loaf of bread?”
Roy and his family set out to seek the answer and did us all the favor of documenting the learning.
http://growaloafofbread.blogspot.ca/
Each entry reports what they did and some reflection on the progress. He also ends each post with “this … Read the rest
