Abigail Marere

Why would I make the world more difficult and expect people to buy in?

Hi Cas,

You make it sound as if it is ABC…..

The proverbial bird is in your hand Zayne.

How I would love to be part of something like this.

Zayne, it is not me who can bring change.

Tt is in hands of people walking pass the Thinking Tools billboard and tick the block: “Noted – Done and dusted.”

Einstein said: “You cannot expect better results by doing the same things.”

This is why I am currently involved with 11 countries who are eager. For example teachers in Uganda are put…[Read more]

Hi Cas,

I looked at your website and are impressed with your product offering and value proposition. The work that you do is great and I hope people realise that there is a new way of “facilitating”.

There is, however, a huge gap currently between what is learned in the classroom and how teachers set their formative assessments.

I strongly…[Read more]

Once you work with Thinking Tools tracking evidence and progress is a walk in the park with the Formative Assessment Rubric, but that excludes flipped teaching as I do not regard copied work from resources such as textbooks and manuals as a learner’s authentic evidence.

Hi Cas,

The purpose of the flipped classroom is to make learners responsible for their own learning where they are normally asked to read at home or prepare something at home in preparation for what they will learn about in the classroom the next day.However, most of the learners that I have encountered has a tendency not to do this but if you…[Read more]

Zayne within blended learning I have a fundamental problem with the flipped classroom part.

See the video clip.Flipped teaching

Thanks Zayne – appreciate your contribution.

Hi Sylvia and Cas,

Career oriented learning experience, yes. This is all accomplished using the blended learning approach (Online, virtual, zoom sessions, presentations etc) to training with the goal of making trainees job ready.

Regards,

Zayne

@Sylvia, over to Zayne in his post ….

Hi Cas and Zayne,
I am quite sure that there are many people on this site who have no idea what the COLE model is.

But adults generally do not want to embarass themselves in public by asking.

So I will ask – are you referrng to:
career oriented learning experience?

True