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My daughter is logging her schoolwork for the day, she’s allowed to count the Azul board game we played as a math activity. Can we create a grading system where Students always get credit for meaningful activities? Not just in times of crisis? #edchatcovid19 #pln
I know what you are going to say ‘what if they lie?’ ‘What if they said they did something but they didn’t actually do it?’ ‘How do we actually assess it?’ I’m going to say so what? We can and I think students and teachers would benefit. Here is my rant about grades:
1. The current #GPA system was first used in 1785 at Yale University. Harvard started 100% to rank students in 1885. People back then believed intelligence was fixed and white men were superior. Why still use their system?
2. The current system to ‘force’ children to learn by threat of a bad grade or incentivize with a reward has been proven to impede learning not necessarily drive it. @alfiekohn
3. We are full of bias. White teachers on average are 3x more punitive with kids of color than white kids @danbattey Why have teachers have all the responsibility for assigning and grading ?
4. It isn’t flexible to different settings. Grading actually forces teachers to teach in a certain, easily measurable outcomes way. This limits the creative/messy/effective approaches to learning that are hard to grade and may result in different outcomes. @LDH_ed
5. Children want to do well. They want to learn and explore the world, our assumption that they will not learn if we don’t force them is false. We need to set a structure to guide and encourage learning but not to squeeze it out of us with the threat of failure. @stuartablon
6. Self evaluations and collaboration actually enhance learning. Feeling judged can impede it. What if we collaboratively measured what students knew and acknowledged growth as the priority?
In the Post Corona-Post Colonial world 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands"> we can escape this imperialist model of measuring knowledge. Our schools rapidly #decentralized allowing for communities to work together to educate children, how can we capture learning and growth in a more humane way? @avantgame
