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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Rebecca Birch

‘Ideate their way out of climate change’😁 So satisfying to hear a voice of reason!!

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I worry about the absence of a CCT 'curriculum' in the OECD's discourse. My concern is that this new PISA assessment will merely measure aspects of IQ. Schools where many parents of high-IQ kids pay to send their kids will 'shine' but Australia's CCT curriculum will be taught no more explicitly or integratedly within each Learning Area (i.e., effectively) than it currently is. That might be the best case scenario: No change. The new assessment could, worst case, encourage teaching approaches that even further disadvantage already disadvantaged students. There's a serious need for the Science of Learning to be in this space.

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by Rebecca Birch

The Artwork/design element of the assessment is an interesting digression. I think it would be classified as 'corporate Memphis' design, which has its own ideological/political logic. Youtuber Struthless has a great video about it under the name "The world's most hated art style".

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