How to Ungrade, with Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery. —Jesse Stommel Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience. —Jesse Stommel Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet. —Jesse Stommel Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education. —Jesse Stommel [/divwrap][divwrap class=”one-half”] Resources Mentioned Digital Pedagogy Lab Why I Don’t Grade, by Jesse Stommel How to Ungrade, by Jesse Stommel The New Education, by Cathy Davidson* Cathy Davidson on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #169 Peter Elbow Peter Elbow’s Website and Blog Bryan Dewsbury on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #215 Parrish Waters at UMW Blue Pulse [/divwrap]