Global News: The Global EDU Summit will launch on Monday, January 18 with a conversation on Rethinking Assessment. Save your seat to join the conversation with Laurie Forcier, Global Content Officer: Learnit, and Professor Bill Lucas, Director: Centre for Real-World Learning.
LIVE: Monday, January 18 @ 9am ET / 5pm GMT: Let's rethink assessment when so many exams have been cancelled
Join this critically important discussion about rethinking assessment. Learnit Chief Global Content Officer Laurie Forcier and Professor Bill Lucas, Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning will discuss the opportunity of the current moment to change how we think about assessment.
What this discussion will be about:
High-stakes assessment practices are a growing source of frustration across education. Many young people find assessments overwhelmingly stressful, and not a good barometer of their learning. Employers decry the mismatch between what is measured, and what they need. School leaders feel hamstrung to prioritize exam prep over richer learning experiences. And assessment systems that fail a proportion of students, by design, are antithetical to creating lifelong lovers of learning.
Learnit is pleased to be kicking off SMART’s Global EDU Summit with a critically important discussion about rethinking assessment. Learnit Chief Global Content Officer Laurie Forcier will be in conversation with Prof Bill Lucas, director of the Centre for Real-World Learning, and co-founder of the UK’s Rethinking Assessment movement. They’ll discuss the opportunity of the current moment -- when so many exams have been canceled -- to change how we think about and conduct assessment, and discuss some of the more exciting alternatives being trialed around the world.
See you there!
