Reading @alfiekohn.bsky.social’s blog posts from 20 years ago. It’s like reading Dewey’s stuff from 100 years ago. Why is this profession so stagnant?

Sharing Bloom’s Taxonomy with my Gr 9s today. Perhaps I’ll share with them my own old Static Electricity quiz, and we can deconstruct it. Then they’ll make their own?

Students are writing their own static electricity test today. Both the questions and the answers. “But won’t we know the answers ahead of time?” they asked. Yes, dear one, that’s the hope.

The bigger hope is a metacognitive understanding of good questions. Still haven’t figured out teaching that.

So I made three versions of the same assignment. Each has four chemical equations to identify, balance and explain, the different versions are tiered ‘mild’, ‘medium’, spicy. Roughly, increasing complexity of equation.

Attempting to design a Gr 10 chemistry project to enable students to both practice and show their understanding of chemical reactions and equations, while also making radical connections and interrogating society and the environment… without discussing the climate. Wish me luck.