Jason Mittell

jmittell.bsky.social

10 September 2026 13:53

It's so baked into our practices that it's hard to imagine "what if there weren't grades?" in all facets of education. But those hypotheticals can be useful - what's gained by assigning a letter on an assignment? By quantifying & ranking students? The key question: how do grades help learning?

Jason Mittell

jmittell.bsky.social

10 September 2026 13:53

Changing the relationship between assignments & grades can help recenter a course's actual goal: learning. These cheating students all seem interested in learning, but not on their courses' terms. The real problem is the underlying transactional model driving higher ed, largely focused on grades.

Lindsay Nelson-Santos

newsfromnihon.bsky.social

24 August 2026 14:11

Might be missing Italy a bit...

Lindsay Nelson-Santos

newsfromnihon.bsky.social

24 August 2026 14:09

When it comes to zeitgeist-y summer horror movies I did not expect to vibe more with Obsession than Backrooms but here we are.

Kathryn Hemmann

kathrynthehuman.bsky.social

05 July 2026 14:30

This isn't to dismiss the strength or versatility of "manga" as a medium, but Kyo Machiko's harrowing war story Cocoon would benefit from being in conversation with Art Spiegelman's Maus and Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza, not like... My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999.