ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

So I have been on here for a couple of weeks and there is so much to love.
Some of my favorite things...
No #Edutainers
Really enjoying the more international perspectives

I have really appreciated and enjoyed my experience on here since moving from the bird app. There is something different about this community, and maybe that is because I have not found the doom scrolling yet 🤣
Thinking of the bird app and reading on the latest news is the bosses strategy to avoid losing $4 mil/week or day or whatever he claimed to lose $44 bil as soon as possible? 🤔

Working on preparing for my next cohort of aspiring STEM teachers and our yearlong methods course journey.
Revising my ungrading approach through this third iteration of going gradeless and finding myself seeing better the intertwined nature of key elements of humanizing ungrading with critical elements of
1) building a trusting community,
2) Transparency,
3) Contract grading with student agency,
4) Frequent and actionable feedback,
5) conferencing, and
6) adapting on the fly

Anything else that is missing from that list?

#ungrading

About to launch into my 3rd year and iteration of #ungrading.
It has been interesting to see my own pendulum swinging from more to less structure and back to calibrate with students and consider the shifting required from traditional compliance based STEM grading. Super excited that for the first time students will have had an ungraded class before mine, so we can tweek rather than initiate.
An update on my contract grading approach coming soon.

Have been working with dissertational Ph.D. students and have been reminded of the contradictions in the journey...
Getting a Ph.D. is a lot of long days and short years 😂

Giving Mastodon a whirl