#Students

Since Wissahickon School District decided against going all online I think it is important to remind ourselves what their contingency plans are contingent on - namely an outbreak of COVID19.
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A few thoughts on today's exam announcement (1/7)The big challenge is how/whether the grading system can reflect the massive disparities in 'learning loss' which have already happened. Digital poverty, time
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Tuesday morning, first day back to school. Woke up excited this morning to see all my friends and peers, teachers and I’m really excited about my courses. However I’m still
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I'd like to offer a big old fat fuck you to every person who has ever maligned community colleges. Thanks to your classist bullshit, thousands of students everywhere believe that
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(1/8) I'm teaching about equity and inclusion in the classroom today. One small tidbit we don't always think about is the importance of employing a growth (rather than fixed) mindset
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1/ Ok as things stand, it looks like the University of Essex (UoE) is insisting we teach face-to-face (f2f) as well as online next term 2/ Staff expected to teach
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During convo with a CISO yesterday, he mentioned some students being too lazy to dress appropriately for hiring events or follow up after. I reminded him that poor Black students
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I was grateful for the opportunity to speak to @AppgCoronavirus this morning.I mentioned many types of data, but I need to clarify that I mis-spoke when I referred to recent
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I have been hearing some complaints and confusion regarding the @umich @geo3550 strike and our policing demands — specifically, some saying that these are “unrelated” and we should “stick to
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If I can, for a moment, speak seriously to profs who panic about students "getting away with" stuff. Let go of the need to control. You can't, and your efforts
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1/ I went to a useful training this a.m. on recording lectures via Zoom w/ various access service staff. Thread, for anyone who is interested: 2/ If you are recording
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I just finished teaching a 60-student asynchronous undergraduate course in Health Economics. Here are some thoughts about teaching, learning, and grading in the Brave New Online World 1. Requiring an
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so i keep seeing things about how LC is doing soooo much better than RH when it comes to covid-19 numbers. and i've got some news for y'all: when you
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what is happening at boğaziçi university, turkey: a thread #AsağıBakmayacağız on january 1st, melih bulu (an active supporter of current government) was appointed by the president to become the rector
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In that tweet re: university reopening, I spoke about the "lie of normalcy" as being sold to students. This is true: every reopening plan I've seen has been predicated on
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If I could offer one piece of advice to anyone doing teaching of any kind this fall it would be simple: Teach. Less. 1. You're probably teaching too much material
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