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Thinks a lot about teaching and learning. Retired physicist. Hunts for demographic inequity within the system.
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Many refer to those situations as "pronoun fouls".
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So much of anyone's success is attributable to luck that every successful person could be feeling guilty all the time, but they mostly shouldn't waste their valuable time that way. Keep doing good work until, hopefully, things get better.
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I liked the original x-men but they weren’t my favorite Marvel heroes. They were a little namby-pamby compared to the new crew. The new group were instantly my favorites. Easily the most striking change in the time I read comics. Loved them all.
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So sorry about this Cassandra! They seem to be tearing up everything aimed at improving people’s lives. I hope things will improve someday but suppose we can’t count on it. Kris is also sorry and sends her best wishes.
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Never give up, never surrender
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As computing capabilities increase, the number of digits we'll be able to calculate will also increase.
I think what's so poetic about this:
It's a process that began with the first civilizations and is a thread that weaves through the whole of human history.
It's our story as a species.
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Maybe when your last name is Johnson you have to keep track of stuff like that.
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I emailed university faculty/staff/administrators a roadmap to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty. The question isn’t whether institutions will comply—it’s who will fight back, and how! greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
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This is why they want to destroy us. Our superpower is explaining complicated things in a way that everyone can understand. They are going to try to destroy us whether we do it or not. I’m not going down without a fight.
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We tried to describe the classes in the paper linked below but basically it has 1.5 hours lecture and 5 hours of discussion/lab each week. Students in DL work in several small (5 or fewer) groups on activities we give them with a few, short, class discussions included.
dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.48....
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4) higher overall and more equitable STEM graduation rates (including fully equitable STEM grad rates at one school)
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2) more students passing the class and increased equity here also, 3) students succeeding in their future academic careers at the same levels as the previous course (even though many more students come through the series of courses), and
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The results show that the courses are better for all students and, at the same time, more equitable. These results are consistent across both schools and they include: 1) fewer students dropping the class and increased equity in this measure.
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We studied the results of changing the structure of introductory physics from a standard lecture course to an active learning course (Collaborative Learning through Active Sense-making in Physics, i.e. CLASP). The changes were made at two very different universities 20 years apart.