Grading is not Teaching
Grading is grading. Teaching is helping the students improve their performance or increase their knowledge or change their thinking. Grading doesn’t do any […]
Month: November 2018
What makes a meaningful assignment?
I’ve been talking a lot about reducing the picky and endless details of the assignments in order to get the students to […]
How far out can I push my students?
Out into the world that is. This is a class in public speaking and so I’m taking the “Public” part seriously. One […]
Specificity is Tyranny
You think specificity is good; we’re taught it’s good. But it’s not. It’s oppressive. All those who hate rubrics, raise your hands. […]
The Only-in-New-York Assignment
OK, so the commute is horrible and keeps getting worse with the increasing subway crowds and rent is ridiculous. But this city […]
