For the morning I was at Pearson's Schoolnet "Day of Discovery". It's certainly interesting what they are doing with their software/services, but I think they are going in the wrong direction. It is almost all predicated on management (of teachers and of students), with a particular focus on multiple-choice testing (with large item banks). There wasn't much focus on sharing information about students and assignments with parents or even with the students themselves.
As well, I take exception to using the term "feedback" to mean students getting their (numerical) marks as soon as they had finished a digital test. I suppose that is a form of feedback, but knowing that you got 6/10 on that multiple choice quiz is not particularly useful. And if a teacher really wants a system like that, Moodle can do it for free, including preventing students from looking up answers and automatically checking for plagiarism.
They showed a video at the start of the day about Pearson's vision for the future of education, but I haven't been able to find it on YouTube. Watch Corning's "A Day Made of Glass" instead, since it's similar.
The afternoon included more preparation for tonight's ElkFest event and for going to Ministik tomorrow.
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