Tag: revolution

For Learning or Credit?

Donna FryLeave a Comment on For Learning or Credit?change, change11, feedback, MOOC, purpose, reform, revolution, school, teaching

While working this week, I had CBC Radio One on in the background and I was thrilled to hear George Siemens being interviewed on Ontario Today (recording here) about MOOCs. As a participant in the #Change11 MOOC  (see the schedule here), I was very interested to hear what George had to say.  It is difficult to […]

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It’s Not Reform we Need, It’s a Revolution

Donna FryLeave a Comment on It’s Not Reform we Need, It’s a Revolutionassessment, creativity, engagement, feedback, inquiry, literacy, reform, revolution, sir ken, student success

Update: July 12/12: http://www.scoop.it/t/leading-learning/p/2159233406/we-need-different-not-better I will just quote Will Richardson, because I can’t think of a better way to say it! * We don’t need better assessments; we need different assessments that help us understand students as learners and constructors of their own ongoing education instead of knowers of information and narrow skills. * We […]

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