A problem with Standards Based Grading that is alluded to here is that it crates what I call the “clarity trap.” To get grades, students follow rubrics. When the rubric is gone, the students struggle to create anything. They wait for you to tell them where to go. 1/2 https://twitter.com/covingtonedu/status/1352246285923921926

As a teacher who has attempted to implement design thinking and creativity into their instruction through Passion Projects, I see students that are unable to handle the ambiguity that is now so unnatural in school, but so natural in life. 1/2

Extra Credit: When I ask students what they care about, or what they think is interesting without telling them exactly what that should look like,I get blank stares and paralyzed minds. If I don’t tell them exactly what to do and where it will go, they panic or check out.

Rant Territory: How can we empower students to become the next generation of problem solvers in a school system that only rewards them for doing exactly what everybody else is doing and punishes them for being different? We are sending them into a gunfight with a water pistol.