It’s training in a gym so that one day they can move the heavy things when they need to, without having to use a forklift.

March 31, 2026 - 13:29 UTC

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But we can been pushed for a couple of decades now that assessment and learning tasks should be authentic. We are supposed to design these assessments so that they require the general skills that we ultimately want students to aquire, but feel to the more like the tasks they'd be doing in a job.
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I guess the answer there would be “what job do you want these kids to be able to do?”

Do you want them to be able to think critically and express those thoughts in writing, or do you want them to ask a computer to give them an approximation of that that will be riddled with factual errors?
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This is a bit like doing isometric training in a gym vs doing something that involves a lot of physical fitness, but feels like it has some other purpose, like cycling to work, or circus skills.
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