More fallout from the “faulty” FCAT it looks like. Let the finger wagging begin. Read in the local paper that the Florida Senate is going to launch a probe into what went wrong. How quaint eh? Then I came across this post on the Orlando Sentinel’s School Zone Blog, Orlando Sentinel – Third Grade Goof: Who’s to blame?

(Note to everyone here, I’ve been using diigo for the last few weeks for my blog posts. I’m really loving the fact that I don’t have to zoom back and forth to edublogs to start my writings. I’m also hoping that the highlighting of a portion of the blog entry the way that I want. So again, trying new things out that I’ve never done.)

So what the ‘goof’ has come down to are anchor questions? Who are we kidding here? Give me a computer with access to the internet, a copy of Google Earth, Audacity, my unitedstreaming account, photostory 3/windows movie maker/garageband/iMovie and I can show you a very nice anchored project that shows learning is taking place.

I’ll give an open invitation to the governor, state congress member/senator, or school board member to sit down and discuss testing, teaching for rigor, and the current ‘best practices’ in teaching that the pundits see as effective. Boy that would be an enlightening conversation.

As always, I’m…

Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages…

Tom.