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Learning not Grades: Answers from #Educon

Donna Miller Fry2 Comments on Learning not Grades: Answers from #Educonassessment, evaluation, grades, Helen Gym, Jeff Boodie, knowledge, marks

Educon, for me, has always been such a hotbed of fresh ideas. This year, the theme of Educon 2.8 is EMPOWERMENT. Here is part of the Friday night panel conversation that seriously resonated with me.  I didn’t ask the question, but I am thankful to the person who did. How do we transform students from […]

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When Learning Has Nothing To Do With It

Donna Miller Fry2 Comments on When Learning Has Nothing To Do With Itchange, collaboration, grades, hope, leading, learn, learning, life, literacy, marks, mindset, motivation, post-secondary, reform, university, visible learning

Last week, Jan Wong, currently an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communications at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, wrote an article for the Chronicle Herald outlining her concern about her Journalism students cheating on quizzes. The sentences from her post that most resonated with me are below. It should be no surprise at all that […]

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