Media recommendations: Board game and classic sci-fi book

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Recommendations are given for exploring different media types such as articles, games, and books. They highlight the strategic qualities of the board game Watergate and praise the character development in the sci-fi classic book The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

David Clark discusses using alternative grading practices to foster student learning on episode 511 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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As soon as there's a grade assigned, students tend to lose the intrinsic motivation they might have to learn these things and focus entirely on that extrinsic grade aspect.

Does this represent what I really care about?
-David Clark

Most of us are used to giving feedback in some way, but making it helpful is the tough part.
-David Clark

A reassessment always needs some reflective parts, some metacognition, because that’s part of the feedback loop.
-David Clark

People aren’t going to remember everything that they’ve learned in our classes for all time.
-David Clark

As soon as there’s a grade assigned, students tend to lose the intrinsic motivation they might have to learn these things and focus entirely on that extrinsic grade aspect.
-David Clark