Literacy continues to dominate our Board's professional development initiatives. The provincial government is behind most of them. The goal is to educate Ontario's students, all or most of them, so that they will be able to compete with students anywhere in the world.
This is an important goal for public education. It is one that most of us would accept. The claims one hears about the progress toward achieving it demand a certain scepticism however. If the goal is important, the last thing we need are those who accept things uncritically, on the basis of authority for instance. There are those who say, for example, that while it is true that we are improving, the gap between where we are and where we need to be is widening. To those who say this, the missing piece is the use of digital technology to leverage quantum improvement.
New technology often presents a challenge. An example of this can be found here.
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