{"id":6842,"date":"2018-02-15T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:50:13","slug":"worth-sharing-why-i-stopped-writing-on-my-students-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/15\/worth-sharing-why-i-stopped-writing-on-my-students-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Why I Stopped Writing on My Students\u2019 Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Why-I-Stopped-Writing-on-My\/242477?cid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en&amp;elqTrackId=59a1a8553aa04fda8178d611c250a495&amp;elq=ae0d6a1133b44916ad5da55b70bc977d&amp;elqaid=17855&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqCampaignId=7899\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo_85772_landscape_650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A professor decides it\u2019s time to reconceive how he comments on essay assignments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is GREAT! I have taken to requiring my students to do reflections (3 Up; 3 Down &#8211; Thanks for the great idea,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/bensawyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Sawyer<\/a>!) on their work and it has a similar effect.<\/p>\n<p>Too often we allow (often force, if inadvertently) our students to grind through their work, handing in assignments and projects, and then forgetting about them so they can focus on the\u00a0<em>next<\/em> one.<\/p>\n<p>In many organizations, the\u00a0<em><strong>debrief<\/strong><\/em> is a crucial part of any practice or learning exercise.\u00a0<em><strong>THAT<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>is where the learning really happens. In formal education, we almost never do that, except in very superficial ways. We may &#8220;go over&#8221; the exam in class, or talk to the whole class about some assignment (it&#8217;s efficient, don-cha-know). We get our marks, and the student gets to charge ahead to the next thing.<\/p>\n<p>Learning takes TIME. If we truly care about helping our students actually\u00a0<em><strong>learn<\/strong><\/em> what we are trying to teach, then we owe it to them to allow them that time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Why-I-Stopped-Writing-on-My\/242477\">Why I Stopped Writing on My Students\u2019 Papers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6842'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6842);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6842);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6842);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A professor decides it\u2019s time to reconceive how he comments on essay assignments. This is GREAT! I have taken to requiring my students to do reflections (3 Up; 3 Down &#8211; Thanks for the great idea,\u00a0Ben Sawyer!) on their work &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/15\/worth-sharing-why-i-stopped-writing-on-my-students-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,369,373,24],"tags":[388,41,389,15,393],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-higher-education","category-students","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-educational-technology","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1Mm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7177,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/12\/16\/worth-sharing-students-arent-learning-enough-a-brewing-crisis-in-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Students aren&#8217;t learning enough &#8211; a brewing crisis in higher education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Too many graduates are not prepared to think critically and creatively, speak and write cogently, solve problems, comprehend complex issues, accept accountability, take the perspective of others, or meet employer expectations. What are YOU doing in your classes to address that? Indeed, higher education globally continues to follow a relatively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7246,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2019\/02\/21\/worth-sharing-making-sure-yours-is-not-a-pointless-exercise\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":1},"title":"Worth Sharing: Making Sure Yours is not a \u2018Pointless Exercise\u2019","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a \u2018Pointless Exercise\u2019 Briefly, Martini noticed that her students didn't seem to get the connections she had hoped they would on the assignments she gave, and wondered if it would make a difference if she made those connections explicit. I can answer that, as I've been experimenting with this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6873,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/04\/05\/what-no-deadlines-on-assignments\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":2},"title":"What?! No Deadlines on Assignments?!","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A common kind of complaint among many HE faculty: My student comes with a long story about why they need an extension on an assignment. I have already gone to some lengths to make sure my students have plenty of lead time to get their assignments done. Still, I relent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/working-14.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6846,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/22\/worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":3},"title":"Worth Sharing: Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of teaching in the college classroom. 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We need to get rid of compartmentalized grading entirely, and quit blaming the students for responding appropriately to an unreasonable assessment system.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6839,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/11\/thousands-of-teachers-caught-cheating-in-exams\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":5},"title":"Thousands of teachers caught cheating in exams","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I have long thought that the way to change the problem of cheating in exams (and assignments) is to reduce the risk associated with any single task. Stay tuned for future posts on how to do that. 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