On teaching without grades.
A long-ish (20-tweet) 🧵. Here goes.

So, you know how you write lots of comments on an essay/exam, and the student looks at the grade and never reads the comments? That's because when grades enter the picture, the learning stops. /1

Instead of focusing on learning, there is a lot of negotiation: can we find one or two points on the midterm as the student is just on the verge of A-?

Everyone is just on the verge of the next grade.

And all the evals are not about the class but about the grading. Really? /2

Is the grade at all informative? If you are just below the A- or just above that, is that giving the student any information about how to improve their knowledge or skills? No. t is just a useless, demoralizing & stressful smoke screen /3

Students' abilities, challenges, and learning are multidimensional. Providing feedback on these many dimensions is much more useful for promoting growth and learning than are quantized unidimensional grades. /3.5

There is an alternative: do away with grades. Keep the feedback -- lots of it (this is not less work for us teachers) but never summarize it in a unidimensional uninformative number (unless you absolutely have to). /4

PARDON ROULETTE

CHRISTIE: Donald, if you pardon your kids, they will be forced to testify against you. And they will. You've trained them to be selfish. You know them. They would bury you. You cannot be this stupid. It would be the dumbest thing you could do.

#PardonRoulette

PARDON ROULETTE

BARR: What idiot suggested you should pardon your kids? Was it Hannity? Don't tell me you're listening to Giuliani again? Hasn't he gotten you into enough trouble?

#PardonRoulette

PARDON ROULETTE

IVANKA: Daddy, don't pardon anyone who is not family. Not Manafort, not Giuliani and gosh, not that vile creep Stephen Miller. The more you pardon, the more there will be investigations. Keep pardons just within the family, Daddy.

#PardonRoulette

PARDON ROULETTE

IVANKA: Daddy, don't pardon the boys. Junior is an idiot. Eric is a moron and isn't even our blood. We all know his dad is Gary Busey, so fuck him. Just pardon me

#PardonRoulette

PARDON ROULETTE

TRUMP: What about Jared? Should I give him a pardon?

IVANKA: That's up to you, Daddy. Jared's a bit dense but loves you more than Beavis & Butt-Head, or Rent-A-Mom

#PardonRoulette

U better listen.

Our forefathers saw and axe provision for 2020 election fraud. We were warm last time [ds] tried to take America.

Then later after ww2 we didn’t listen to Patton or McCarthy.

Then later when one man and his brother publiQly said he would begin to drain the swamp the [ds] murdered both of them in broad daylight

Now here we are. Massive n your face voter/ballot fraud all across the natyon. They think we will just slumber again. Well fuck that. We will rise up. Ob#ur PQTUS/WarFighters r poised to crush this insurrection with swift extreme prejudice.

Best gif of 2020?

Maybe the best image of 2020. Kamala wearing a mask with nobody closer then 50ft of her

Best headline of 2020

Best chip of 2020

Best "that's true" of 2020

Thread #Hathras

Sources : The charge sheet filed by CBI in the #HathrasCase is filled with flaws and three innocents have been roped in as accused, in spite of them having strong alibis.

While the prime accused did commit the act and there is strong evidence against him, 1/n

the remaining three were implicated only based on their ‘tower location’ of their cell phones. Two of the accused who are implicated were employees of a dairy located a kilometre away from the scene of crime (SoC) and witnesses working in the dairy, 2/n

had given statements that the two accused were working in the dairy at the time of crime. The other innocent accused was present in a place away from SoC and witnesses had deposed that he too was not in the SoC.

CBI comprises fine officers with investigating skills. 3/n

They always do their job with due diligence keeping in mind the reputation of India’s premiere investigating agency. But, superiors, who are IPS officers on deputation to CBI always toe the line of the ruling regime and act as mercenaries. 4/n

Highly placed sources in CBI say, the Director of Prosecution of CBI, one Ms Sudha Rani concurred with the findings of the investigating officers that only one accused need to be charge sheeted. Ajay Bhatnagar, a 1989 batch officer of Jharkhand cadre, 5/n

PETITION FOR TEXAS SOVEREIGN ACTION

Dear @GregAbbott_TX As NBCs of the United States for the preservation of the Union we petition you to call up the Texas Constitutional Militia, resubmit your case to SCOTUS, occupy all assets of Chinese nationalists suspected of high treason!

With the Constitutional Militia Mustered, SCOTUS will hear you case! and the other Patriot States will take similar actions to preserve these United States of America as a government of the people, by the people and for the people with the right to 1 legal vote per 1 voter.

Never has #TEXAS had a cause so just and righteous, so patriotic, so universal. For as Christ teaches, when we see America beaten up on the side of the road, we cannot pass by like the hypocrite and pretend his wounds do not need caring for. (cf. Luke 10:25-37)

Moreover, as it is now public knowledge that #Scotus refused to hear the #TEXAS case out of prejudice, the implied contract of one citizen one vote is constitutionally threatened if the High court refuses to hear the case. Texas has the constitutional duty to uphold that right!

PETITION FOR SOVEREIGN ACTION OF #ARKANSAS #LOUISIANA #MISSISSIPPI #MISSOURI #SOUTHCAROLINA and #UTAH

to join #Texas in above constitutional redress authorized by the #10thAmendment and #2ndAmendment as solution to grave constitutional crises! (see top tweet in this thread)

An interesting take on zombies would be a virally mediated analgesia.

This kind of zombie plague has already happened before. Leprosy-induced neuropathy has been a thing for all of human history.

You'd just need to improve upon it.

Imagine getting a terrible flu, and after a high fever, discovering you can no longer perceive pain.

Imagine 30% of a population acquiring analgesia.

There's a reason people born with congenital analgesia don't often survive childhood, and why leprosy is so lethal.

Such an analgesia plague would hit poor people the hardest.

Restaurant workers scalding their forearms down to the muscle, warehouse workers not noticing they've crushed toes, etc

Hospitals would fill with people who'd suffered minor injuries of all kinds that'd gotten infected.

Or people who'd let illnesses go ignored until far too late.

Part 2

Those who missed Part 1 here it is https://t.co/myV2RhzsxJ 1/n

The Toilet issue also brings to my mind memories of my childhood

We always had clean toilets.

But my grandparents lived in an Agraharam (Village) where there was only one toilet, which was in abysmal condition.

You wouldn't dare enter the toilet, because it was pathetic 2/n

I was asked by my father to go and stay with my grandparents for at least 2-3 days a month, and I would dread at the prospect of using that toilet.

Most of the time, I wouldn't and return home with severe constipation, or stomach cramps. 3/n

My grandfather never used the toilet and used to defecate in the open. This caused us considerable embarrassment whenever he visited us, and complaints would flood in from people in the neighbourhood. 4/n

I was a frequent traveler by train in my youth, and the number of people defecating in the open along Railway Tracks always made me angry.

I could see ladies getting up hurriedly whenever the train passes them, protecting their modesty. 5/n

THE HAPPENING - A TIMELINE

2020 Election Timeline of Events

(credit to timeline anon on /pol/)

I am very late to this #MedicareForAll floor vote debate, but since it is still raging, I’ll join the fray by telling you a little story.

In 2019, after I testified at the first ever #MedicareForAll hearing, I got back to Santa Barbara and realized that my own Democratic congressman was not a cosponsor of the bill! So I did some organizing.

We pulled together a ragtag coalition of some old timer health care activists, the local DSA chapter, some college students, a women’s political club, and a local elected official. We met in my living room three times to scheme.

We scheduled a meeting with our rep, @RepCarbajal. 25 of us crammed into his office even though his staff said there was only room for 8). We talked, he listened. He talked, we listened. He said he supported a strong public option. He promised to send us questions in writing.

We left, disappointed but eager to win his support. We started planning a rally. We gathered petition signatures at the farmers market and the college housing. His staff sent over 15 really detailed and good questions. We asked the National Nurses Union to help us answer them.

A thread of @feliciaday as foxes that nobody asked for but I decided to make anyway.

Flowers 🌻🌹🌷

+80 bonus points for the mini Matt Smitha and TARDIS combo.

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.

(they're the same picture)

JUMP

Things look dire in SoCal hospitals. Check out these quotes!

“We’ve never had so many patients,” said Adrian Cotton, chief of medical operations at Loma Linda University Health in San Bernardino County.”
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(read to the last quote please)

“...at least one hospital has set up an outdoor triage tent to handle the overflow of people”

“In Long Beach, hospitals have started visitor restrictions. In the South Bay, a conference center has been transformed into an ambulatory clinic.”
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We have signage set up all over the hospital to inform patients that, if they have any family members with even signs of symptoms, not to visit”

“Loma Linda emergency physicians are seeing about 60 more patients a day than usual, Cotton said.”
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“About 150 patients have so far been treated in the tent, which is staffed according to the number of people inside. It’s expected to be up through March.”
3/

“As the main emergency room gets full, patients are moved to the tent. For example, a patient who comes in with a broken arm is likely to be treated inside the tent, he said. Visitor restrictions have also been implemented.”

“The county saw a 300-percent increase”
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The $GRT token has garnered a lot of attention over the past day, but what is the future for @graphprotocol? Hint... it is big!! Let’s explore… 1/11

#Ethereum and other L1s offer smart contracts, @chainlink and other oracles bring them off-chain data, and now the Graph is decentralizing data storage and retrieval. The Graph is a critical part of the unstoppable web3 tech stack. 2/11

Decentralized storage is critical to web3 because centralized data providers are capable of shutting down/ censoring dapps. We are moving away from a centralized world & the Graph is key in the web3 tech stack 3/11

At the moment, #DeFi is the sector that has the best PMF to date but NFTs, DAOs, social networks, supply chains and other use cases are popping up and starting to take off as well. The Graph is important for all of these use cases. It covers everything 4/11

The Graph is currently used by most Ethereum protocols to create unstoppable dapps. The Curator program galvanized devs to build new subgraphs. But the dev community was using the Graph before they incentivized it. Why? PMF! 5/11

Thread: Message to President Trump. @realDonaldTrump “The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and ..

Think about the Dec 21, 2017 Executive Order signed by @potus

Blocked property of persons involved in serious human rights abuse or corruption

One month Before @potus signed this EO Saudi King had Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (aka Prince Dopey) arrested. He was told he had to

Exchange his billions for his freedom but he had a small problem. The US Gov froze his assets ($6 billion) and he remained A prisoner. He was interrogated (maybe a little more than interrogation but who cares he’s a monster) and some believe Black Water was involved in the

interrogation. This occurred around 11/4/17. As a result of the interrogation he squealed like the pig he is and gave up valuable intel on Soros, the Clintons, the deep state and creeps like Adam Schiff.

Notice Q’s drops after Dopey was arrested. January 27 2018 Q mentions

Time to play - Black Forest

Immediately the deep state knew Prince dopey must have blabbed his mouth about the horrific games the Rothschilds, “royalty”, Schiff, Clintons, Hussein like to play in the Black Forest in Austria with children. Look it up if ur not familiar

Q points out a week or so later that The mere mention of Black Forest by Q resulted in the Rothschilds dumping their Black Forest estate in a fire sale

Why? Because of @potus Dec 2017 EO. They knew If @potus could get the King of SA to arrest and interrogate and divest his