Some delays...

May: the end of the school year is behind the corner, and with it a whole set of small or bigger pseudo-bureaucratic jobs.
Correcting classworks, remaking schedules so that the last things can fit together with opportunities to make up for those students who didn't work during the year...
Plus this year being a bit more alone in some home and extra chores, because of the soon-to-come new little family member.
In short, I am trying to justify my absence from the blog during these last few days.

The question that arose right today is this: how is it possible to divert the students' attention from marks and address it towards learning?
Right today, maths classwork, subject "parabola". One of the students, one who is usually a bit polemic, says he will get 4/10 but he'd deserve 9/10 because he completed the part of the classwork about the parabola in only 20 minutes, but of course if in the exercises you also put the straight line and in a way that without knowing it you can't progress further...
And all the rest of the class, calculating: here I'm gonna get 4/10 but I had 7/10 in the previous, so, prof, do I get 6/10 at the end of the year?

Let's remove marks from our school furnishing, as they are suggesting to do in Germany these days?
Probably not. So, what? Can Web 2.0 help in this direction? I would like this was the case, although I wouldn't know then how to dive into it without conflicting with a didactic practice a century old...

Who knows...