The case for collaboration in schools

Frankly I couldn't have put it better than this:

Physicists just debunked one of the most promising candidates for dark matter


This is a collaboration of over 100 physicists. Who works alone today? Isn't it time we adapted not only work, but also senior assessment practices, to acknowledge this?

Eric Mazur on "Assessment: the silent killer of learning"

Last week I had the privilege of attending this year's Edutech 2015 conference in Brisbane. Much about the conference was a mere shadow of the previous few years, but the stand-out session was the opening keynote address by Eric Mazur of Harvard University titled "Assessment: the silent killer of learning"in which Mazur posits that current assessment is not fit for purpose.

My colleagues and I co-constructed some notes during the session, but it is doubtless easier to watch an earlier version of the same address given by Mazur in 2013. It is very similar to that which he gave last week.