Jesse Stommel > Quotes

“that educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies. Education has misrepresented itself as objective, quantifiable, apolitical.”
― Jesse Stommel, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

“I prefer meta-analyses like what Freeman et al. wrote for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They evaluated 225 studies and determined that evidence-based active learning strategies were more effective than lecturing from start to finish.”
― Jesse Stommel, Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection

“My assessment approach focuses on self-evaluation and metacognition. I ask students to write process letters about their work, and I ask them to reflect frequently on their own progress and learning. The most authentic assessment approaches, in my view, are ones that engage students directly as experts in their own learning.”
― Jesse Stommel, Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

“When adopting new platforms, we shouldn’t invest in or cede control to for-profit companies more interested in profit than education. And, when our institutions (or teachers) make unethical choices, we must (if we are able) find ways to say “no.” In”
― Jesse Stommel, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

“Freire writes, “Authentic education is not carried on by ‘A’ for ‘B’ or by ‘A’ about ‘B,’ but rather by ‘A’ with ‘B’.” It is through this impatient dialogue, and the implicit collaboration within it, that Critical Pedagogy finds its impetus toward change.”
― Jesse Stommel, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

“A phrase originating from the work of Paulo Freire, hooks writes that “education as the practice of freedom” will come easiest “to those of us … who believe that our work is not merely to share information, but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students.”
― Jesse Stommel, Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection