Is education lighting a fire or filling a bucket?
Friday, May 11th, 2012I have a huge amount of work to do, yet this afternoon I have found myself enthralled in a number of coincidental conversations about the role of ‘incentives’ in getting students to engage with assessment, or dare I say, with learning.
With permission, I am copying parts of Phil Langton’s latest message:
I’m coming rapidly to the conclusion that the mistake we make is to fail to put ourselves in the students’ shoes. We ask lots of questions and expect that by weight of numbers of sheer dumb luck the students will begin to see the world as we do.
Wrong! (more…)