I’ve been yacking about storytelling for a long time on my blog. Partly from a personal passion and love, partly because new technologies have allowed us to tell stories differently and partly because storytelling is at the core of who we are. But beyond all these reasons it’s becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a time where storytelling...

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...

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 extensive research into this...

Did you ever start telling a story and part way through you are trying to remember if you've told the story before?  I feel that way a lot when I blog and wonder if maybe it's a sign to shut up but I'll likely just repeat the story. But I digress… Yesterday's blog post was eerily similar to the one I wrote about the same conference a year...