Ch.4

Professor Davidson tried out her new way of grading which was called crowdsourcing. Most of her students loved it while a group of them criticized her about it. surprisingly the group that criticized her was her A+ students. Her new grading method was one that went against all the old ways of grading from the twentieth century. She was letting her students choose what they wanted to learn, and pick out topics to discuss, and choose what they wanted to do for homework and projects. Professor Davidson let her students control her class and also control the grade the were going to receive at the end of the semester, this raised many eyebrows to long time professors and old school teachers. She had very strong remarks from other professors and was not being criticized in a good way at all.

Her argument in this chapter is about her crowdsource grading system. She was being criticized by students and professionals about her new way of teaching. some were positive, but many were negative. She was arguing that giving a test and assigning a grade to that test does not have real world value and will not help students in the future. She is saying that we don't get an A or an F in life, testing us is not essential to us succeeding in the future. She is arguing that people believe we are not able or willing to learn unless we are forced to. She is saying that our generation needs to change our class structure because the old ways of learning were used and designed for a different era that valued different things. I do and i don't agree with what professor Davidson proposed in this chapter. My reasons why I do agree is because I do believe we need to change our ways of testing and learning. I believe that standardized testing does not help students in anyway prepare for the future or retain knowledge from the subject matter. What I do not agree with is letting the class have control and tell the teacher what they want to do. I like letting the teacher know about what I want to learn though.