ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy Winter Northern Hemisphere! ❄️

@snickerfel @ZingerLearns @brndnpink @lewriley @randy @ungrading @edutooters there is a great #ungrading Substack as well. It’s called “Grading for Growth(https://open.substack.com/pub/gradingforgrowth?r=todh7&utm_medium=ios). What I appreciate about the publication is how wide-ranging the discussions are. Lots of places to start depending on your context.

@scerruti @ZingerLearns @dougholton @edutooters
I don't need the mass of teachers.
I would just like enough fellow teachers in order to have a conversation between a few colleagues who can understand and relate to one another.

new instances making waves in the fediverse:

https://hachyderm.io/ tech related
https://brands.town parody brands
https://blacktwitter.io/ black fedi
https://journa.host journalism
https://union.place/ unions
https://vt.social vtubers

also a new hosting provider for those who want to set up their own mastodon: https://cloudplane.org

#FediNews

This One Change From Teachers Can Make Homework More Equitable https://www.edweek.org/leadership/this-one-change-from-teachers-can-make-homework-more-equitable/2022/12

Thanks to @SarahDSparks@twitter.com for sharing our study

@jessicacalarco @graceachen@twitter.com

@ungrading @edutooters as I work through the growing stack of resources for #Ungrading, I am still present to a stakeholder who hasn't been mentioned so far, but to whom I owe some amount of accountability: parents and guardians. As much as ungrading seems to point toward teacher and admin education, and that students need to be informed clearly of the expectations, so too do the parents of these high school children who have their own agendas and expectations for the system.

@ZingerLearns @brndnpink @lewriley @ungrading @edutooters indeed, my whole class is project-based, an easy thing when teaching a creative elective subject that involves using technology (ie digital media)

The part I'm most struggling with is what the scaffolds look like, how to write effective rubrics and how to get more student peer assessment/feedback integrated into the process at regular intervals.

Great piece here on how standardized testing is rigged to place minority students at a disadvantage - and then used to justify disadvantaging minority students. #education https://race.undark.org/articles/born-of-eugenics-can-standardized-testing-escape-its-past

@KaiserScience @ZingerLearns @brndnpink @randy @ungrading @edutooters I teach physics to pre-health students preparing to take the MCAT and also to physics majors preparing to take the GRE subject test in physics. These high-stakes assessments are entirely external to my courses. This frees me up to focus entirely on facilitating learning. Learning how to learn physics trumps maximizing coverage in my courses. I have had zero pushback from students on this so far. #Ungrading

I’m really thankful to have a few weeks between semesters to decompress. The fall was a great teaching semester, but remarkably difficult in other ways (which I’ll share at some point). I took the first week of break to #rest while my kids were still in school. We’re doing all the baking and playing in the snow this week, but I wouldn’t have the energy I do for it without that break last week. Don’t let anyone tell you that #IntellectualLabor isn’t #labor or that #rest isn’t a #HumanRight.

It is that time of the year. The Wreath of Khan.

I’m glad to see the growing #UnGrading community here in the fedi. I’d love to see the same emerge for #UDL #UniversalDesignForLearning. To that end, I thought I’d create a Guppe Group for UDL: @udl
And if you’re looking for a UDL starting place: https://www.cast.org/impact/universal-design-for-learning-udl
Ultimately, I think that UnGrading is a UDL strategy and addresses the hegemonic barriers the UDL framework misses (tho CAST is working on this with the #EquityRising project).