By Allan Alach
A personal note:
Last week I wrote an article for http://thedailyblog.co.nz about the
privatisation of New Zealand education. Things are moving rapidly, generally
below the radar. This link takes you to a repost on Bruce Hammonds’ Leading andLearning blog.
I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it
to me at allan.alach@ihug.co.nz.
This week’s homework!
Amplify
– it’s powerful, it’s also dangerous.
I introduced Amplify in the introduction to
last week’s readings. Here’s another opinion piece by Pat Buoncristiani discussing this in more depth.
‘So here is my first fear – that learning becomes
mediated through the tablet rather than through the teacher, that learning
ceases being a shared human activity and becomes an interaction between a
screen and a student.’
6
Common Misunderstandings About Assessment Of Learning
“Educated’ educators will know all about
these. Sadly too many principals and teachers are ignorant. This article will
help you educate them, as well as non-educators.
Free school head without any teaching qualifications
plans to ignore curriculum
‘Profession
is being 'deskilled' say unions as figures show 10% of teachers in new sector
are unqualified.’
Welcome to charter schooling. What was that
about ‘raising achievement’?
Standardized tests are killing
our students' creativity, desire to learn
An excellent article from the Denver Post:
“Students' abilities can be evaluated in many, creative
ways. The idea that every student take the same test at the same time is
nothing more than the warmed-over factory model of education used in the 1950s,
now laughingly called "education reform."
As Oscar Wilde has observed, "Conformity is the last
refuge of the unimaginative.’ “
Should school children be treated as battery hens or free
range chickens?
A podcast that
explores this issue.
Where
are We Going and Why?
Pasi Sahlberg |
By
Andy Hargreaves and Pasi Sahlberg.
Good stuff, as you’d
expect. Sadly GERM minded politicians are congenitally unable to read this kind
of material.
Getting
rich off schoolchildren
‘Stop
pretending wealthy CEOs pushing for charter schools are altruistic
"reformers." They're raking in billions.’
And..
2 comments:
well this is an interesting article :)
Interesting article ? - should scare educationalists to action!!!!
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