{"id":21381,"date":"2018-08-14T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=21381"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:29:41","slug":"getting-more-out-of-student-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2018\/getting-more-out-of-student-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting More Out of Student Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Getting More Out of Student Assignments\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Most student assignments end up in the trash after they\u2019re graded. Although the students learned things in doing the assignments, wouldn\u2019t it be great if they had more uses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 21 from 10-11:30 a.m., join the EDC and cognitive science professor Jim Davies for a discussion about non-disposable assignments. Prof. Davies will report on his classroom experimentation with his teaching philosophy, \u201cDon\u2019t Waste Student Work,\u201d and will explore the kinds of assignments that can help students after the course is over, future students, the scholarly community, or even the world at large.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/getting-more-out-of-student-assignments\/\">Register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most student assignments end up in the trash after they\u2019re graded. Although the students learned things in doing the assignments, wouldn\u2019t it be great if they had more uses? On August 21 from 10-11:30 a.m., join the EDC and cognitive science professor Jim Davies for a discussion about non-disposable assignments. Prof. Davies will report on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39962,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21381\/revisions\/39962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}