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#ableg I am an educator. I am a social studies teacher where I created opportunities for students to create their own knowledge aka inquiry based learning. One of the highest marks I ever gave on an essay was one whose views where the complete opposite to my
Personal ones. If we do not have classrooms where students can develop critical thinking skills, where to do they create those fundamentally key aspects to being a high functioning community member? Truly this government does not want citizens to develop the capacity to question
Them. Heck I wanted my students to question me in class—how do we really know if a student understands a complex idea or has just memorized a fact. I don’t care if my students know the exact date of the start of WWII I want them to understand the conditions that lead to that
Conflict. Who are we as a society if we are willing to dumb down education? Who are we as educators if we do not advocate for higher level understandings for all of our students? I deeply saddened yet not surprised by this morning’s announcement. I guess the next
Question is what are we as a collective going to do? And I don’t have the answers, yet I suspect as a group of critical thinking Albertans we will come up with some. @albertaNDP @RachelNotley @JanisIrwin @shoffmanAB
Please forgive my spelling errors 
but can’t go back now. Great reminder of the importance of editing.
but can’t go back now. Great reminder of the importance of editing.
