Grades and the Future of Schools w/Benjamin Doxtdator
This episode features an interview with Benjamin Doxtdator, a middle school language arts teacher at an international school in Brussels, Belgium. Benjamin is probably best known for his essays on his blog Longview on Education.
Topics include:
How deemphasizing grades reflects Benjamin's commitments as a teacher
The potential pitfalls of a more gradeless future
The rhetoric of education reform, educational technology, and futurism
How tapping into and cultivating community can help us our voice as educators