Dear Mr. Ford…
Doug Peterson,
doug — off the record,
Jul 20, 2018
This is the title of one link in Doug Peterson's weekly wrap-up but all of the posts reflect, in one way or another, on the sea change in Ontario education being caused by the new government. It's not just about curriculum change - consider the segment where he talks about different things stressing different people (contra the old instructivist model of everything). Consider the discussion of taking different approaches to solve math problems. Same sort of thing. And, of course, there are the topics that need to be covered in 2018 that just didn't exist in 1998.
p.s. and as a complete aside, I've been noticing how much language online is presented in the form of a command. I get this in email a lot (as in Facebook saying "you need to update your page listing" or LinkedIn "tell us whether so-and-so is a friend." I saw some in Peterson's post - that's what made me think of it. "Show some blog loving to Gerry and check in," he says in a tone that I perceive as demanding compliance. And "Make sure that you're following these great bloggers on Twitter." I wonder how much more we're ordering each other about these days, and I wonder how much of that is influenced by commercial online discourse.
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