Controversial conversations: Alfie Kohn on the problems with praise and grades & Jo Boaler on student inquiry

  

A 48:00 minute talk at OISE at the University of Toronto by Stanford mathematics education professor Jo
Boaler. (Watch from 2:34 to 27:00). For those in the EDCP 342 class, you will have read about the so-called California Math Wars. Jo Boaler is the one who was subjected to severe threats to herself and her family, simply because her work supports exploratory student learning as a way of teaching mathematics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OgKnrPNZiI


Alfie Kohn interview with Amy Jo Kim on Why Co-operation Beats Competition in Games, Education and Parenting (2023, 27:00)

and an earlier video of Alfie Kohn on the problems with GPAs and the current promotion of STEM (2016, 15:42)