Digital literacy means having a familiarity with and facility in navigating and using the Internet
digital literacy: the ability to use the internet and the understanding of the benefits of digital tech. for different things
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- Jan 2021
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www.historians.org www.historians.org
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Figure out what sorts of digital skills you need and then pursue them deliberately
like most skills, digital literacy is something that needs honing
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www.alfiekohn.org www.alfiekohn.org
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Grades don’t prepare children for the “real world” — unless one has in mind a world where interest in learning and quality of thinking are unimportant.
the "real world" is a really interesting thing to think about. definitely agree that learning and quality of thinking are important, but i think "productivity" is a big thing in the real world and the thought of "productivity" almost parallels grading (in the sense that people do things as checklist items)
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The things that grades make kids do are heartbreaking for an educator”: arguing with teachers, fighting with parents, cheating, memorizing facts just for a test and then forgetting them. “This is not why I became a teacher.”
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Kids were stressed out and also preferred to avoid intellectual risks. “They’ll take an easier assignment that will guarantee the A.”
i can relate to this -- sometimes it's hard for me believe de-grading/ungrading, but i know it's just because the grading system has been programmed into me for all of my life. there's definitely lots of unlearning to do on teachers' and students' ends!
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teachers must create a pedagogy and a curriculum that will truly engage students rather than allow teachers to coerce them into doing whatever they’re told.
yes -- in my own experiences, I've been able to learn best when teachers provided opportunities for me to engage with material more freely (ie choosing what i'd like to learn, read, etc.)
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which collectively offer a fuller picture of the applicant than does a grade-point average
agree; GPAs are not telling of everything.
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If, however, our point of departure isn’t mostly about the grading, but about our desire for students to understand ideas from the inside out, or to get a kick out of playing with words and numbers, or to be in charge of their own learning, then we will likely end up elsewhere.
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the absence of grades is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for promoting deep thinking and a desire to engage in it.
→ find ways to get students interested in learning
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Quantification:
i think quantification can also be harmful in that it doesn't account for the diversity of people and their circumstances
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the more students are led to focus on how well they’re doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they’re doing.
yes! learning processes are just as important as the result.
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trinsic motivation, which includes a desire to get better grades, is not only different from, but often undermines, intrinsic motivation, a desire to learn for its own sake (Kohn 1999a)
learning for grades vs learning to learn!
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no recent research has contradicted the earlier “big three” findings
fascinating that these claims haven't been contradicted, yet there hasn't been many explicit changes in the widespread grading system in the US
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They’ll choose a shorter book, or a project on a familiar topic, in order to minimize the chance of doing poorly — not because they’re “unmotivated” but because they’re rational.
definitely guilty of this :o
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Collecting information doesn’t require tests, and sharing that information doesn’t require grades.
yes! though i don't have the answer as to what a different system would look like, i don't doubt that it's possible. when i was in high school, my school switched the letter grade system to something called standards-based grading as a means of emphasizing learning.. it was really flawed to be honest, but the point is that through trial and error, there are definitely different ways of collecting and sharing info.
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Gather and report — that’s pretty much it.
unfortunately, a lot of the tools used to "gather" information about how students are doing are really flawed :( one of the main things I thought about is standardized testing (and other kinds of examinations) -- they seem to focus more on whether or not students can "study"/memorize and regurgitate information.
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