28: Restoring Humanity: Gradeless Learning

What this episode covers

For this episode we're trying something new. Instead of having a guest, I'm (Chris) deep-diving into one element of progressive education - offering history and advice to gradeless learning. I tried my best to cover an extensive look at this topic, including - most importantly - the point of why this is needed. There are many quotes and research provided, here is a list of the resources used: * Much of the historical data (and all quotes) are from "Making the grade" by Jack Schneider & Ethan Hunt (2013) [https://www.holycross.edu/sites/default/files/files/education/jschneider/making_the_grade.pdf]. * We recommend the portfolio tool Seesaw [https://web.seesaw.me/?utm_expid=.puymyPFhT7iUN3i29m23jg.0&utm_referrer=]. * **Mistakenly, I said that Seesaw was free for everything except grading - this is mostly true, but to assign "skills" and organize student posts via tags it is $120/year. A simple workaround is to create folders for skills and have students upload work into them. * I celebrate the upcoming work of the Mastery Transcript Consortium [http://mastery.org/a-new-model/].