Paul W Bennett
Columnist at Telegraph-Journal
Freelance Contributor at The Chronicle Herald
Education Columnist at Telegraph-Journal
Education commentator, consultant and author. Specialist in decoding edubabble.
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1 week ago |
thehub.ca | Paul W Bennett
Provincial school authorities have been slow to recognize the profound impact of ChatGPT and its competitors in our schools. Since its arrival in November 2022, generative AI has taken K-12 education by storm. It’s also completely altered the entire student assessment landscape and turned teacher-student relations into a peculiar “kabuki dance” over grades where students are pretending to write essays, and teachers are pretending to mark them. This is obviously unsustainable.
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1 week ago |
educhatter.wordpress.com | Paul W Bennett |Dylan Wiliam
The school bell rang to open researchED Toronto in early June 2025 and there was a detectable a buzz in the air. With the school year winding down, the U.K.-inspired ‘polite revolution’ in education – known as the researchED movement – arrived back in Canada, a year after the amazing triumph of our initial national “Science of Learning” conference.
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1 week ago |
yournews.com | Paul W Bennett
Several years ago, I made the challenging yet invigorating decision to leave my secure permanent position in nursing to undertake the most significant and responsible role of all: that of a stay-at-home father to my five kids. I quickly realized the truth in C.S. Lewis’s quote: “Children are not a distraction from more important work.
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3 weeks ago |
tj.news | Paul W Bennett
Over the past two years, spread in use of generative AI by students has been phenomenalAuthor of the article: • Education beat • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentFinal examinations in June used to be an end-of-year rite of passage. Today, in New Brunswick, teacher-supervised, hand-written exams still exist, but they have become rarer since the pandemic.
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3 weeks ago |
educhatter.wordpress.com | Paul W Bennett
Our education trend-setter, Ontario, is moving in the wrong direction. That province is set to discontinue provincial Grade 12 exams, after June 2025, and other provinces have already, or will likely, eliminate standardized, time-limited, hand-written or secure online exams in the final years of high school. Generative AI is – without much acknowledgement — making all forms of student assessment, other than teacher-supervised term tests and examinations virtually obsolete.
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