I like to informally ask my students about halfway through a course what they like and don't like about the course. It doesn't take much more than 10 minutes: I give groups of 3-4 students a single piece of A4 that I divide into four sections (positives, negatives, suggestions for improvement, other comments).

It's always insightful. And not just for me: They often realise that they disagree on some things (e.g., too much or too little of something, too slow or too fast, etc.) and they frequently suggest things that are easy to implement, but can really improve things. And so I've just set up a collaborative document to collect useful shortcuts and a glossary of important #Rstats functions which I've called "Class Cheatsheet". #HigherEd #teaching

the #CFP for openly licensed, peer-reviewed strategies that utilize #GenAI tools to support learning in #HigherEd by TRAIIL is open!

https://stars.library.ucf.edu/traiil/

#EdTech #Teaching #Learning

@edutooters @academicchatter

“‘I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,’ one teacher told me. ‘That sure feels like bullshit.’”

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

#Teachers Are Not OK
#AI, #ChatGPT, and #LLM "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my #teaching."
They describe trying to grade “hybrid essays half written by students and half written by robots,” trying to teach Spanish to kids who don’t know the meaning of the words they’re trying to teach them in English, and students who use AI in the middle of conversation. They describe spending hours grading papers that took their students seconds to generate.
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

"I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."

Teachers are not OK: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

Set myself up on Pinterest. Take a look if that’s the kind of thing you’re into…

#EduBlogger #education #edutoot #edutooter #edutooters #educationuk #teaching #lgbtq #lgbtqia @edutooters

https://pin.it/1TLsE3SWb

Sunday & 2 links added to this searchable & translatable collection of links to free access #edu content
https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com :1 full anthology - results from a research project - plus one long article

Thanks to Gunnlaugur Magnússon & team at Sthlm Univ. & David Didau
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@edutooter @edutooters @socialscience @teaching
#teaching #politics #schoolsystem

Oh, it's report card time again.

6th grade narratives data: 10 different assignments including two creative projects, a historical dialogue, close-reading of primary texts from two different cultures and three different eras.

8th grade narratives data: vibes.

So I teach non-native English speakers, helping them feel confident using English and giving them a safe place to practice and expand their skills and make mistakes.

Well this evening, one of my students was summarizing some recent news and suddenly began talking about “Mr Potato” repeatedly.

I put my detective hat on and silently filed through options of what she might be trying to refer to. When I couldn’t figure it out I nicely asked for some clarity, “Mr Potato? Like Mr Potato Head the toy?”

“no no no…” and she try’s again, this time slower… Po..Ta…To

It suddenly clicked
TRUDEAU
Mr Potato was Mr Trudeau.

….and then we both laughed for a min straight.

Students Don't Learn the Way They Think They Do in a Large, #ActiveLearning Genetics Course
https://www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe.24-10-0251
"students exhibited larger learning gains from prediction activities compared with worked examples or tell-then-practice activities, as evidenced by a course pretest/posttest"
#STEMeducation #BiologyEducation #Teaching #EdDev #InquiryBasedLearning #EvidenceBasedTeaching

I've started publishing my “Introduction to human-computer interaction” slides as CC-licensed reusable teaching material. (My #OER debut!)

https://fietkau.science/teaching/intro_hci

I've been wanting to share these for more than a year. Doing that all at once felt insurmountable, so now I'm putting them up piece by piece over the summer. Two out of 15 sections are up and public now, feel free to browse!

If you follow me for fediverse stuff: this is my day job.

The heartwarming news of the day: In this class, there's a student that keeps on reminding me of someone, but who? Then, I remembered: she really looks like that little super cute and sweet 5yo girl I used to teach when I first arrived in Japan. (I loved teaching preschoolers, they're my favorite students as much as uni students). Then I realized that they shared the same first name (a name that's not really common). Odd, right?

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So many of my students are first or second generation American. I’m scared that they may be “disappeared” and I will never know what happened to them and their families. #teaching

Critical Reflection, Week 2: Many of us in #Education share foundational beliefs about #teaching & #learning even if we rarely say them out loud, they shape most of our decision-making. What are yours?
#criticalreflection
#highered #facultydevelopment @academicchatter #academicchatter

https://open.substack.com/pub/higheredpraxis/p/week-2-what-is-critical-reflection?r=4j50q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

“I don’t know, let’s figure it out,” are words frequently spoken by the best leaders and teachers... but it must be sincere. #leadership #teaching #teachingstrategies #edchat #education

#teaching #NorthCarolina #food #CulturalHeritage

"Consisting of various written, visual, and audiovisual materials, the North Carolina Foodways set demonstrates key aspects of food history in the state through primary sources. The set also includes sections for context statements, background information, a timeline, discussion questions, and relevant outside resources."

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/barbecue-biscuits-and-more-new-primary-source-set-on-north-carolina-foodways/