Susan Blum shares about ungrading on episode 350 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Genuine education isn’t simply this points game.
-Susan Blum
If the learning is interesting, people will do it.
-Susan Blum
Think about your students as people who are learning things for purposes. If they are not learning for a grade, why else are they learning?
-Susan Blum
The goal is learning. Learning can be for the purpose of use or interest.
-Susan Blum
Resources
- Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), by Susan D. Blum
- Alfie Cohen
- Human Synergistics Ethical Challenge
- I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, by Susan Blum*
- Universal Design for Learning
- Derek Bruff shares about times for telling on his blog
- Schwartz, Daniel L. and Bransford, John D.(1998)’A Time For Telling’