Technolandy

Day 125 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week: Andy Hargreaves on standardized tests (spoiler: focus on class assessments);  

1. Andy talks, and I listen – and love the point that AI and its immediate feedback is another reason we don’t need to rely on the nostalgic wishes that big tests did anything other than measure how well someone write tests, less so about what they learned https://apple.news/AeU1ASZtDTT-Kq_DMmxKUVw or https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/we-were-involved-in-the-last-study-on-eqao-testing-but-the-ford-government-buried/article_b7487cc8-7852-420c-bb82-8d10bfe41d46.html
2. Alberta post-‘back to work’ legislation looking at classroom complexity (as promised) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/classroom-complexity-teacher-voices-9.7099882 and https://apple.news/ATfYW2_LYSrWVEiJisTS_UA but at the same time… expanding private school spaces https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/alberta-rolls-out-90-million-pilot-program-to-expand-private-school-spaces
3. This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI” Toronto Life (March 2026) https://apple.news/AiZA46D8ARcmFh2p093REew – are rites of passage important? Anxiety, fewer opportunities are real, and entry level jobs are disappearing… The Gen Z struggle is real

Some fun thinking going into Spring Break:

Should our school goals on reading be focused more on how neurologies process text? And then deconstructing if reading should be fun, or just a strategy from which to get information…?

Buy a comic book this spring break – see what all the fuss is about!