Cohort 21 | Alan MacInnis | Activity https://cohort21.com/members/alanmacinnis/activity/ Activity feed for Alan MacInnis. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:13:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-CA 30 hourly 2 e5955c8bb07e2ab80739eaba24e3ee3a Alan MacInnis posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/garthnichols/21st-century-skills/what-were-all-those-books-for-anyway-book-review-synthesis/#comment-1579 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 03:19:07 -0400 Love the revamped VUCA! Can I steal that?
Great piece, Garth. Thank you.

In reply to - Garth Nichols wrote a new post on the site Garth Nichols I’ve done a lot of reading over the last month and few days, and I’ve compiled a healthy catalogue of book reviews. I felt it was time to synthesize them […] ]]> 525be3c275a351b6d686aa9dea5d421e Alan MacInnis posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/lesliemcbeth/2015/12/04/what-is-the-purpose-of-school/#comment-184 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:26:24 -0500 Great stuff, Les! A wonderful read.

To your Assessment v. Learning above: I found that my students who like lectures also do well on tests. And perhaps related: Every time I give a choice for assessment that includes an in-class test option, it’s always the most popular.

In reply to - Leslie McBeth wrote a new post on the site Leslie McBeth Should schools focus on preparing students for real life or for University? Wait…aren’t those the same thing? As I explained in my last post, recent […] ]]> d6781345cf2a5913324a2bb002a32055 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/?p=62 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:53:35 -0400 If your students are anything like mine, they’re probably pretty good at finding evidence from a text for their essays but terrible at using it effectively once they’ve found it. They tend to drop it into a […]

]]> d45726f7099f7aa77f98212d947fde03 Alan MacInnis posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/ckirsh/2015/08/27/five-ways-cohort-21-has-made-me-a-better-teacher/#comment-1254 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:19:18 -0400 Amen, Celeste!

In reply to - Celeste Kirsh wrote a new post on the site [We Are] Teaching Tomorrow It’s that time of year again: with the start of the new school year around the corner, it’s impossible not to think about the launch of another […] ]]> 03efb95e6669f37b9d0af87c2dfae5b8 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/?p=51 Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:31:19 -0400 My favourite assessment tool is the sight passage.

It’s the best way—and I’m more-than-a-little tempted to say the only way—to assess an English student’s proficiency with our discipline’s skills. That’s why I […]

]]> 825b3e30fea8db4671598af67ffc6713 Alan MacInnis posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/aaronvigar/2014/04/25/questions-and-connections-my-cohort-experience/#comment-88 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:33:25 -0400 Congrats!

When you’re planning for Maus, see if you can find a copy of MetaMaus, too. Great stuff for meta-fictional elements.

In reply to - Aaron Vigar wrote a new post on the site Aaron Vigar As April gets ready to depart, so too does the school year. The snow (yes, there is still snow in Muskoka) is beginning to melt away almost as fast as the few […] ]]> fef4719428f49c92cfcd85f6edbb35b3 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/?p=36 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:19:38 -0400 I like that word musings, especially when it’s all by itself. No articles, definite or otherwise, to suggest how many will follow. And it certainly doesn’t posses the authority of Action Plan, whether it be an or […]

]]> 5127b27be5739132cfd2ad5b6296990d Alan MacInnis commented on the post, Flipped? Blended or Personalized?, on the site Sarah Bylsma http://cohort21.com/sarahbylsma/2014/02/12/flipped-blended-or-personalized/#comment-77 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:30:03 -0500 528c0619caf740127a0cdcc0d92d0764 Alan MacInnis commented on the post, One cost of personalization, on the site [We Are] Teaching Tomorrow http://cohort21.com/ckirsh/2014/02/09/one-cost-of-personalization/#comment-540 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:12:39 -0500 c9e0308750b89ee2b3cb055496cbb950 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/?p=31 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:57:56 -0500 At our first Friday Face-to-Face, at the fabulously cool MaRS Commons in Toronto, Celeste Kirsh beamed about the synergy she and a colleague had about a thematic-based culminating assessment that would work for […]

]]> 05f131ef39b230462cc68117bddadaa0 Alan MacInnis commented on the post, A 21st Century Novel Study, on the site [We Are] Teaching Tomorrow http://cohort21.com/ckirsh/2014/01/12/a-21st-century-novel-study/#comment-507 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:56:32 -0500 526499438c6ecfc500905e8ef8ec8b8e Alan MacInnis commented on the post, The Action-Plan Post, on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2014/01/10/the-action-plan-post/#comment-255 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:47:36 -0500 73419dbf5b19b8ee56f603e89d719b7c Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2014/01/10/the-action-plan-post/ Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:48:18 -0500 (I joked with a Cohort 21 member during our last session at B.S.S. that my action plan may need to be an action plan for having an action plan. I think I have moved beyond that, but perhaps only just…)

At […]

]]> 2b11f02947472fd9d49708d5eff97b14 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2013/11/23/so-we-tweeted/ Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:21:27 -0500 …which means I need a new reference.

Hmm… How about the players? That should work. I coached the troop; they performed the altered play; I saw Claudius’s reaction: now what?

Please consider this a status […]

]]> 609b0cf538bbc4897fe5a4129a345bb1 Alan MacInnis commented on the post, "To tweet, or not to tweet?", on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2013/11/16/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/#comment-68 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:04:55 -0500 0342c8be8ffe57ec10927f065d6c2273 Alan MacInnis commented on the post, "To tweet, or not to tweet?", on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2013/11/16/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/#comment-64 Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:26:03 -0500 5d1b8a6c2fad4a898d5247042deea621 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2013/11/16/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/ Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:45:40 -0500 Okay, that was too obvious, wasn’t it? How about…

Whether ’tis nobler in class to suffer
The drool and snoring of our bored students,
Or to plunge deep into the Twitterverse,
And, by embracing it–(do I […]

]]> 735c635934e3d023f61a2c2236eef6f7 Alan MacInnis wrote a new post on the site Alan MacInnis http://cohort21.com/alanmacinnis/2013/10/19/wow/ Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:05:04 -0400 socrative.com seems fabulous.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a unit’s worth of exit tickets compiled and filed for parent/teacher interviews?

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