Tag: assessment

A big task!

Posted by | Published on July 6, 2016

Greg Whitby is the only very senior educationalist that I know in NSW who regularly uses social media and blogging to highlight his educational beliefs […] 

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Assessment for learning

Posted by | Published on February 18, 2014

“The teacher’s job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features […] 

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Assessment Using Games by James Gee

Posted by | Published on September 2, 2008

James Gee has written a many books on situated learning and what video games have to offer Education. This video explores how games are perfect […] 

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Gilmore's Law, Smartphones and Wikipanion

Posted by | Published on August 26, 2008

The filters that school systems use to manage what students access will shortly become irrelevant to the young people being protected (from themselves?). How long […] 

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