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Learner Motivation & Assessment Culture

Posted on November 13, 2018 by danidilkes

Expanding on the discussion of Learner Personas and understanding learner motivations, I wonder if we are feeding the learner obsession with tests through the assessment culture we’ve created. If we emphasize exams as the primary assessment tool, do we really have any right to become frustrated with students who emphasis learning that helps them excel […]

On the topic of writing

Posted on January 1, 2018 by danidilkes

(Migrated from my decommissioned linguistics blog) I tried being a creative writer. Once. When I was in High School. It didn’t take. I didn’t have the right stories to tell, or a connection to my characters, or a reason to write. So I stopped.Then I became a writer of code. if (logic > creativity) { […]