A candid discussion about the process of unlearning and ungrading in academia, reflecting on personal experiences and perspectives. The speakers explore the challenges, motivations, and complexities involved in alternative grading methods, emphasizing the importance of intentional and thoughtful pedagogy.
Jesse Stommel shares about Undoing the Grade on episode 483 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
For us to be talking about something like unlearning or ungrading, there’s an irony in that because we are the people who need to do that work the most and the people for whom that work is probably the hardest.
-Jesse Stommel
The only wrong way to do something is to do it unintentionally, to do it in a way that isn’t carefully thinking through what we’re doing.
-Jesse Stommel