{"id":2166,"date":"2009-11-22T20:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:52:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:52:56","slug":"observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/11\/22\/observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am attending an IT conference put on by my school board today.\u00a0 So far, 2 of 3 sessions have been useful.\u00a0 One session, however, was disappointing in that it was not what we\u2019d hoped to learn about.\u00a0 The general gist of the presentation was about students being involved in creating their own assessment.<\/p>\n

I am sitting here reflecting on what exactly I am learning in the current session, realizing that we are all on a learning journey.\u00a0 As adults in this professional learning workshop, we\u2019ve been able to choose what to explore.\u00a0 So we hope to maximize our learning as a result of choosing sessions that are part of our learning path.<\/p>\n

When relating that to students choosing their own assessment or being involved in it at least, I wonder if that\u2019s possible because they don\u2019t have the ability to choose their learning path as we do.\u00a0 They might choose certain elective courses and even what stream they want to follow, but those are so limited.<\/p>\n

When you consider that most digital natives are used to choosing their information path because of the nature of the internet (hypertext links and all) and the speed at which they access all the information they need\/want, is it any wonder they can\u2019t sit still without being connected to some electronic device or feel they can decide the outcome of everything they put effort into?\u00a0 I think it explains why my students seem to think they can negotiate every assignment I give them.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am attending an IT conference put on by my school board today.\u00a0 So far, 2 of 3 sessions have been useful.\u00a0 One session, however, was disappointing in that it was not what we\u2019d hoped to learn about.\u00a0 The general gist of the presentation was about students being involved in creating their own assessment. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[3242,6550,4910,6551],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-assessment","tag-digital-natives","tag-hypertext","tag-learning-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}