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Jacob Johnson @gradeslayer

Husband, father, English teacher, and education disrupter. Fan of banter and blasphemy. Ruthlessly and unapologetically #ungrading. *Opinions mine.

Joined March 2011
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Jacob Johnson@gradeslayer
28 Nov 2022
Do good. Slay the grades. #ungrading
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none."

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As long as grades are the currency, learning will be a transaction, people the product. #ungrading
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Once generative A.I. is integrated into systems like Canvas Speedgrader, will students get notified: “feedback and grade likely given by A.I.”? washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Enjoying a much needed spring break knowing that senioritis will be a full blown epidemic next week. 🫠
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Jake Miller@JakeMillerEdu
4 Apr 2023
Listen, do not click this link unless you have an hour to waste right now. 😃 There are so many crazy and fun things on this website! 🪝 Great for lesson hooks ⏰ Or kids who have extra time after completing their work. #EdTech #EduTech #EduTwitter neal.fun/

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Let's goooooo!👏😊 #ungrading

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Overthrowing Education Podcast@OverthrowingEd
30 Mar 2023
Replying to @OverthrowingEd
One of many about going gradeless. This is from a great teacher @gradeslayer Jacob Johnson, who shares his journey of going gradeless in his classes. tinyurl.com/GradeSlayer
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Overthrowing Education Podcast@OverthrowingEd
30 Mar 2023
Last week I released my 100th ep (96 regular & 4 bonus eps), so to commemorate, I'm sharing some links to some older eps in the comments below. I want celebrate all of the amazing things I've learned from great educators on my podcast & on Twitter!

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Yeah — it was epic.
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Jacob Johnson@gradeslayer
24 Mar 2023
Had to take a mental health day to go to Las Vegas and see the Taylor Swift concert. 😎
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Had to take a mental health day to go to Las Vegas and see the Taylor Swift concert. 😎
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In the age of ChatGPT, this is how I feel as a writing and rhetoric teacher some days.😆
Effin' Birds
@EffinBirds
21 Mar 2023
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Today’s classroom: Palm Springs and #SpringCUE — let’s goooo!
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I asked ChatGPT to write 10 tweets about how "grades aid learning." Wow -- it even included hashtags. 😂
Tweets written by ChatGPT to discuss how "grades aid learning."

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Matt Beaudreau@MattBeaudreau
9 Mar 2023
Schooling for a world that no longer exists is a scam. Educating for the future is hard to predict. The answer has always been to educate the individual to become inspired, resilient, self-confident, and self-aware, so that he or she creates the future by design.
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I genuinely believe tools like #ChatGPT can be a positive tool in the classroom and for learning. I also don't want to be put in the position to be the A.I. thought police. There's a lot to reflect on and consider moving forward.
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Will I see any of you at the CUE Conference in Palm Springs, next week?
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In our vain attempts to measure everything, we measure nothing.
rebelEducator
@rebelEducator
22 Feb 2023
We’re obsessed with measuring everything in our kid’s life. What’s her GPA?  Is she gifted or slow? What college is he going to? How tall is he compared to his peers? What month did he speak his first word? What if all these measurements are hurting, not helping?
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I'll be introducing Orwell's #1984 to my students in a few weeks. Would love to hear your ideas on companion texts, activities, assignments, assessments, and so on! The irony of working with this book in this day and age is palpable, but perhaps it's always felt that way.
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Generative A.I. and #ungrading are unintentionally linked. The ChatGPT Molotov cocktail is forcing education to reconcile with that fact that assessment practices hinged on compliance and generic end-products won’t last much longer. We can do better. We can adapt.
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An opportunity to redesign education.
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Jesse Stommel@Jessifer
7 Feb 2023
If an assignment can be done by ChatGPT, maybe it should be?
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Tyler Rablin@Mr_Rablin
7 Feb 2023
If our assessment practices decrease potential future learning, we need to question them. If our assessment practices decrease the motivation a student has, we need to question them. If our assessment practices dehumanize the students we serve, we need to question them.
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