http://blog.core-ed.net/greg/2009/06/run-to-where-the-ball-will-be.html My journey in the evolving world of ICT's, Learning and Teaching... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:58:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.core-ed.net/greg/2009/06/run-to-where-the-ball-will-be.html/comment-page-1#comment-1009 Cherry Picking Stats | Graham Wegner - Open Educator Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:04:46 +0000 http://blog.core-ed.net/greg/?p=989#comment-1009 [...] And as a teacher who sees the benefit of covering SACSA outcomes in “flexible” time in the guise of Inquiry Learning, I wonder why we’d even want to strive for the OECD average of 4 %. This perception that we don’t spend enough time on the “basics” is very interesting. I have heard that this call is usually because the government (or in this case, the parents’ representative body) don’t really have a clear vision of the future, so grasping for the past is the usual response. Just for the record, I have no problem with the State Government’s call for minimum times for English, Mathematics and Science. My own timetable for my class matches those requirements pretty well - but I sense that “flexible” equals “undesirable” in this new initiative. Improving our own education system needs to focus on what is relevant for our students, not as Greg Carroll puts it so eloquently, following the ball around. [...] [...] And as a teacher who sees the benefit of covering SACSA outcomes in “flexible” time in the guise of Inquiry Learning, I wonder why we’d even want to strive for the OECD average of 4 %. This perception that we don’t spend enough time on the “basics” is very interesting. I have heard that this call is usually because the government (or in this case, the parents’ representative body) don’t really have a clear vision of the future, so grasping for the past is the usual response. Just for the record, I have no problem with the State Government’s call for minimum times for English, Mathematics and Science. My own timetable for my class matches those requirements pretty well – but I sense that “flexible” equals “undesirable” in this new initiative. Improving our own education system needs to focus on what is relevant for our students, not as Greg Carroll puts it so eloquently, following the ball around. [...]

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