Last evening, Carla shared with me the weblink to an online book she was interested in using for our U.S. Government class. When I Googled the author, Jonathan Mott, I found that he not only has a Ph.D. in Political Science, but that he is also a well-known proponent of the use of instructional technology! Jon’s blog, The End in Mind, is a fascinating dialogue of how to truly reform and transform education by reversing the focus from teaching to learning. This is the same concept outlined by renowned educator Rick DuFour in a podcast that I originally was going to share with you this week, but cut out of our agenda in the interest of sanity.
Hopefully you can find the time to take a few minutes and read one of Jon’s blog posts, Roger Schank and the Tyranny of Grades, which reminds us that Learning is our ultimate goal. And I find myself reiterating that, as we rewrite courses, we should do so with exactly that in mind: the End, the Standards, the Goals--the Learning--that is supposed to be the “take-away” for our students.
