Embracing New Challenges and Learning

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The speaker had lunch with their mom and husband where the mom shared adding a new language, Ukrainian, on the Duolingo app to explore a different language from what she already knew. The mom expressed feeling both intrigued and self-deprecating about learning through the app, mentioning the mixed emotions of accomplishing tasks and the fear of failing. This conversation prompted the speaker to reflect on feedback from students about caring, with flexibility on deadlines being appreciated during COVID and feedback becoming more significant in recent times.

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