{"id":112,"date":"2022-09-12T12:16:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-03-14T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:22:20","slug":"what-does-the-word-grades-feel-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/2022\/09\/12\/what-does-the-word-grades-feel-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the word &#8220;grades&#8221; feel like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first lecture was this morning. I borrowed an activity from David Buck (dbuckedu on Twitter) and asked students to respond to the question, &#8220;What do you feel when you see the word &#8220;grades?&#8221;&#8221; This is a wordcloud of their responses:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-9pa8cd\" draggable=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Fceke7lagAAO7Qk?format=png&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have roughly 100 students who contributed a total of 22 different words. Thirteen people contributed the word &#8220;stress&#8221;. We did this activity before any mention of grading in this course, and it simply validates work of others and illustrates the primary reason I practice ungrading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first lecture was this morning. I borrowed an activity from David Buck (dbuckedu on Twitter) and asked students to respond to the question, &#8220;What do you feel when you see the word &#8220;grades?&#8221;&#8221; This is a wordcloud of their responses: I have roughly 100 students who contributed a total of 22 different words. Thirteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celesteleander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}