Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Curriculum Renewal: There has to be a better way �Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Curriculum Renewal: There has to be a better way �Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Curriculum Renewal: There has to be a better way

Saskatchewan is smack dab in the middle of curriculum renewal. The shift is to outcome based education.

It is a student-centered learning philosophy that focuses on empirically measuring student performance, which are called outcomes. OBE contrasts with traditional education, which primarily focuses on the resources that are available to the student, which are called inputs. While OBE implementations often incorporate a host of many progressive pedagogical models and ideas, such as reform mathematics, block scheduling, project-based learning and whole language reading, OBE in itself does not specify or require any particular style of teaching or learning. Instead, it