I have posted the updated version of Shift Happens as its still worth showing teachers and parents to set the context for change in education. It goes for about 7 minutes but hang in there – the discussion afterwards is worth it.
Mark's Learning Log- Harvard Data Wise Institute in Melbourne January 28, 2024Last week 19 school teams came to Melbourne during the last week of school holidays to attend a 5 day Harvard Data Wise Institute. There were long 8 hours days of intensive learning where participants shared their ‘why’ stories with … Continue reading →mwalker
- Jez – the old chestnut – ability grouping or streaming – is still being touted as a solution to falling standards! January 5, 2024Sorry Natasha, education editor for the Australian Newspaper, wrote a recent article on the state of education in Australia using the results of the recent PISA tests to say that our students are bored out of their brains at school, … Continue reading →mwalker
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I agree it would be good to see an Australian or at least an international perspective.
God I wish that my semicolon parentheses weren’t converted to awful smilies! :'(
The irony is that by the time you finish watching the presentation, two thirds of the information is out of date 😉
It brings to mind the joke “79% of all statistics are made up on the spot”, I would love it if Fisch actually bothered citing his sources but I guess I am a pedant in that respect. The sweeping generalisation that ‘by third year half the stuff that college students learnt in first year is obsolete’ (to paraphrase) really just serves to emphasise that some educational systems are still focusing on content rather than skills. I dunno, there has already been quite a bit of criticism of “shifthappens” for its US-centric posture and the way that it seems to feed distrust of big bad China although the author denies it on his wiki. But it makes you wonder, while updating the presentation, why not update it to make it more global? I wonder what an Australian version would be like 🙂 “By 2020, 98% of rural and remote schools will still be waiting for ADSL, Bloody Telstra”
Cheers, Jason