The Beauty of Story

As a follower of Ewan McIntosh’s blog, I have just come across Time to Know, a curriculum innovation from Israel that appears to be addressing some of my questions from yesterday’s post: looking at disaggregating content in digital form in a curriculum design model using the enabling features of one-to-one technology access.

Time To Know believes there are three main reasons why today’s classroom is ineffective: First, relevancy—or rather, irrelevancy. Kids are living in a digital world with a tremendous amount of stimulus. Expecting them to happily and effectively embrace ‘passive learning’ that requires them to just sit, listen and provide output in exams is simply unrealistic. Second, variance. There no such thing as a homogeneous level of learning and comprehension in a classroom of students. Third, assessment—aka, the feedback loop. In today’s classroom a student could have gotten lost with the material three weeks back, but the teacher would be oblivious to it.

Roi Carthy, TechCrunch, Feb 2, 2010

Definitely worth a closer look.

Tags: assessment, curriculum, innovation, McIntosh, online

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