Title: Ungrading as resistance

Speaker(s): Spencer Bagley

Abstract: The pandemic has shined a spotlight on inequities, flaws, and ruptures that already existed in our educational system. Instead of adapting old systems, we can use the disruption of the pandemic as an opportunity to imagine new ones that are more just, more equitable, and do a better job promoting student learning. In this talk, I discuss how grades are detrimental to quality student thinking, and how we can use ungrading to disrupt existing systems from within.