Quotes from the episode

Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting.
-Josh Eyler

We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to really dig in and find ways that the content becomes meaningful to who they are as people.
-Josh Eyler

We're in another period of significant grading reform right now, fueled, I believe, by mass communication and social media. People are now able to connect in ways that in previous eras of grading reform, they were not able to.
-Josh Eyler

Quotes from the episode

Being a dad who is an educator takes things from the academic and intellectual and brings them immediately to the surface, to the real world and to the real consequences for students and families.
-Josh Eyler

The conflict between what we think and what we value and what we want for our kids and what the world and our school systems say are important can sometimes be almost irreconcilable.
-Josh Eyler

We need to create environments that will cultivate intrinsic motivation.
-Josh Eyler

In situations where grades are given, students tend to be more fearful of making mistakes. They produce more behaviors of trying to get the grade rather than learning.
-Josh Eyler

Grades are not objective accurate measurements of learning according to this research.
-Josh Eyler

If grades don't measure what they're supposed to measure, why are we using them, and why are we putting so much pressure on them?
-Josh Eyler