What would be your favorite slogan on a t-shirt to wear at school as a teacher? (upper secondary)

"Go prompt yourself" (ok, maybe a little harsh )

"Writing is thinking - Chat responsibly"

"Think before you chat"

"Who writes your identity?"

Strong claim from a recent article on using AI to evaluate teaching: "AI evaluation removes human bias in teaching assessment" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X25000888
Sort of ironically, I asked AI to evaluate this claim. Gemini 2.5: this is an overstatement, but AI may serve as a "complementary component within a comprehensive, multi-method evaluation framework." https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0PiO97GgCtLrqnhLlfo1PS7U5sD4kLbl04oPM7Z4aY/edit?usp=sharing
ChatGPT 4.1: The claim is "misleading in its absoluteness" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_69vnJnxYyGxGrEMD1BYwahbDGzqMJz/view?usp=sharing
#AIEd #EdDev #Teaching

Welp, I'm teaching Intro #Psychology for the first time in 20 years. Scrambling to get prepared. Anyone have any resources for helping teach this monster (but important) course? #OER or #FOSS or #PublicDomain or #Open resources are especially awesome.

I just don't understand some students. In my writing class, there's a weekly assignment to do, and if they don't have a passing grade to this particular section of the class, they fail the entire class, no discussion to be had.

One student has done the assignment four times out of 13 so far (only one left). I've told him for weeks that he's in serious danger of failing and... He keeps on not doing the assignment but keeps on coming to class. Does he hope I forgot my class rules?

I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.

One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)

Reading Geoffrey Cohen on belonging. Weird reading a book on diversity and inclusion when it's being demonized and dismantled all around us in real time but. I'm finding all kinds of ways to help my students (and help them help each other) feel at home here and it's giving me hope for holding out for the next three years.

#Trumpocalypse
#Teaching
#Resist
#DEI

Just because a book, or class, or lesson is difficult doesn't mean it's better.

This is my first #introduction, as I’ve just created my account on Mastodon.

I’m Hawan (she/her), an #artist who has been #painting and #teaching for decades in #SouthKorea.

I use a very manual approach to creating my works, but exploring new things, including social networks, is always exciting.

Lately I’ve been enjoying listening to audiobooks about historical events or figures, and watching detective thrillers. I hope I can settle in here and connect with new people and surroundings.

Readings shared July 18, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/07/19-readings_shared_07-18-25 #ACL2 #CompSci #FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #ITP #LLMs #LeanProver #Rocq #Rust #Teaching

“The Ones that Care Make all the Difference”: Perspectives on Student-Faculty Relationships
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-020-09522-w
"We identified four themes for faculty practices: (1) Creating Pedagogical Space, (2) Being Inclusive and Aware, (3) Being Engaged and Engaging Students, (4) Doing More Than Teaching."
#EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd #EdReseach

Teaching software specification (Experience report). ~ Cameron Moy, Daniel Patterson. https://ccs.neu.edu/~camoy/pub/lsl.pdf #CompSci #Teaching #ITP #LeanProver #ACL2

Thanks to my colleague Elina for pointing me to this checklist of things to do to make physics teaching in higher education more inclusive:
https://stemfor-all.weebly.com/downloads.html

AI and a Return to Rhetoric

As many schools struggle with how to handle the emergence of "AI" (actually LLMs), it may be time to look to the past to ensure our educational future.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/17/ai-and-a-return-to-rhetoric/

#Happy and energised after #teaching twelve highly motivated young Americans about #runes.

#Math for #biologists: I am looking for a textbook or online material that could be used as a basis of a course for undergrad biology students. The problem is that many biologists are mathphobic & need strong motivation (#teaching based on biological applications). Recommendations welcome!

Section 28 is back Straights, all thanks to Labour.

This is why I will never feel 'British', your state hates me and my Queer breathern, always will.

Are you going to change it or just look the other way?

I know the answer sadly, not enough of a fuss will be made, not enough voices will be heard, we just don't matter as much, that girl was been lied to when she was told this was a land of 'tolerance'

Today I #livestream new #education research about the alleged benefits of #teaching students #argumentMapping.

10:40 EST / 15:40 CET

People I know can message me for the #Zoom URL.

Credit to the London #Reasoning Workshop for accessible conferencing!

https://x.com/byrd_nick/status/1943237655938126196

The semester's nearly wrapped! Well, at Uni Stuttgart at least. #Teaching is done, lectures are over, and now there's just one big thing left... The Exam. Well, two things: I still have to write & grade the exam

Some students still have to submit their final term paper. For those in my class, the term paper is actually a scientific poster, because #AI can't bluff its way through those (yet).

Here's to the final lap! Wishing everyone a strong & focused final week!
#HigherEd #AcademicChatter