We have a vast amount of knowledge about teaching and learning that is currently isolated in classrooms. When teachers retire, they take their rich knowledge base home with them. Technology creates new models and methods for teacher collaboration and provides tools for capturing teacher wisdom for using technology. Visit Web . The challenge of making assessment authentic has not yet been met.
School looks too little like life, and assessment looks too much like school.
I hope that the innovation marketers may bring to the business of schooling will help us identify better models. To date, while I appreciate the struggle that we are in, I have not seen the progress I would like.