Posted in assessment & reporting on Jul 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
Okay, I am not going to spend my life cataloging AGE articles as blogs, but this parent perspective on new government reporting processes was worth quoting:
From THE AGE:
Another school mother was looking at Ds. Her daughter isn’t
academic; but she’s hard-working and conscientious.”
She thought she’d got off to a good start this year. It’s not as
if [...]
Posted in blogging on Jul 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
Kind of late in the day for us all to discover blogs, but the Education Age today also had a big feature on the use of blogs by academics, and even a mention of good ol’ edublogs, though no mention yet of teachers or students blogging.
from THE AGE today:
Academics wondering whether they should venture into [...]
Posted in curriculum, learning on Jul 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
After the content based push of the weekend Australian, interesting to see a very different perspective in the Age today with an emphasis on thinking, on futures, on life skills, on gee…what, outcomes? I liked some of the ideas in this piece; hate the headline. ‘Schools failing….blurb blurb blurb..that’s an easy headline isn’t it?
Schools failing [...]
