Think of the opportunity cost of grading:
Millions upon millions of teacher hours spent on formulating, calculating, explaining, arguing, discussing, justifying numbers and letters.
For what? Learning? Yeah, right.
“He managed, by the random force of his curiosity, to learn a good deal, and most of the time there was enough coincidence between what he learned and what he was expected to learn to allow him to make passing grades.” ~ Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth
Once again Barbados PM Mia Mottley has been the one who has delivered the speech the world needed. May she be heard, may we rise. Take 8 minutes to listen to the whole thing. Share the lines that grabbed you most. #COP26
“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means.” ~ Alice Duer Miller
@gcouros https://t.co/zafViNhpwf
Here is a stellar example from Grace! She helped to pilot a new course called Creative Connections which was absolutely inspired by Innovate Inside the Box 😊 We have used Weebly for awhile now for process blogs and final digital portfolios.
Becoming a grown-up, fully developed, wise, and kind human being is a long, slow process...And the very act of measurement or evaluation is a misunderstanding of the nature of the process.” ~ Norman Fischer