Authentic to the End: Rethinking the Final Exam
As finals approach in schools across the country, it’s worth asking: Are we truly measuring what matters? Traditional exams often reward short-term memory over real understanding. This post explores why authentic assessments—like podcasts, course trailers, and class yearbooks—can offer deeper, more meaningful ways for students to demonstrate what they’ve learned.
A Marker and a Board: Real Education Technology
The clear message from me to you is that teaching and learning are about teachers and students. Period. You can jazz up that experience in any techy way that you want but the two most vital components of the educational process and great teachers and terrific students.
Missing The Mark:Forging a New Way Forward in Education
This article focuses on the ways that the education system forces students and teachers to miss the mark. We need a new goal and a new system so that we can work on doing the right things better.
Grilled Cheese and Teaching
I love sandwiches. I love sandwiches so much that I dream of someday opening a sandwich shop. Which is probably why even though I have zero minutes to open my dream shop, grilled cheese has crept into my thoughts about teaching. You see, I think great teaching is a lot like grilled cheese. Let me…
Be different: A Call for Educational Disruption
“Don’t fit in, fit out.” Lebron James recently said these words to new superstar teammate Luca Doncic before their first game together. I can’t think of a better phrase to share with all educators in the year 2025. Have you stopped for a second to look at the world around us right now? When I…
Miles O'Shea 