Initially I was sad about #StackOverflow's collapse, not so much because I've contributed a lot to it (and as a #Wikipedian, I've already resigned myself to big tech trying to sell my own words back to me), but because I learned a lot of programming and statistics from it; it gave me focused answers to specific problems. It already bothered me that my students were turning to AI for that purpose, and now what I was telling them to use instead is turning into AI slop... (1/2)
... (2/2) But thinking about it, it was actually a pretty crappy way to learn, making me much slower to see the big picture. I only used SO because I couldn't get formal training in those areas. When I got to the point where I could read books on stats and programming instead, I got a lot better a lot faster.
So I guess now I'll double down on encouraging students to focus on fundamental concepts and the ability to formulate the right questions to ask of high quality sources.
Giving feedback on oral reports: I have everyone grade everyone and collect all the feedback. Then I read through the complete stack for a student and share to them 1) what their peers liked/found useful, 2) what they were curious about afterwards, and 3) how this ties to things we'll be doing later in the semester.
“The 4,000 or so degree-granting institutions of higher learning in America don’t tend to operate like businesses, which must adapt or die. Instead, a typical college is motivated to remain the same, operating through structures that are rare outside higher education.”
@paninid Good. They shouldn’t operate like a business. They should be teaching institutions not profit institutions. The Atlantic pushing their neoliberal agenda as ever.
The word "pedant" has its roots in the Latin "paedagogantem," which is the present participle of "paedagogare," meaning "to act as a pedagogue or to teach."
The Latin word is derived from the Greek "paidagōgós," which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant "a teacher".
Very much looking forward to presenting this at the Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers: Edinburgh Winter School 2024 tomorrow. The theme for the day is pairs programming.
Are " #reading out loud competitions" a thing in other countries as well?
In my primary #school 3rd grade in 1990s Germany, we had a 1-day event: Every student read out a text (about a page) and the winner was awarded a book as a small prize.
The teacher (maybe several?) judged the students' reading speed, intonation, delivery, stuff like that.
Does this happen in other countries too? What's the #pedagogy behind it? Is it still a thing?
Call your students co-learners, and tell them that you are learning to teach while they are learning the subject matter with each other. Students take statements from teachers as authoritative. In my experience, learners take to the nomenclature and the notion.
I scaffolded this with a specific statement about how this differs from traditional learning.
I asked for classrooms w/ moveable chairs, tables, stacked them. Greeted students as they arrived 1st day & told them to set up a chair. Invariably, they would set up rows & columns, & w/out intervention would sit in the same place the next time class met. Moving into a circle changed my profile from sage on stage to co-learner; also, no back row in a small circle (for larger classes, concentric circles). Since they are trained to comply, saying we're co-learners has effect #learning#pedagogy
Sometimes I'm called upon to teach a writing intensive capstone class where the main assignment has been a review paper. Given #GenerativeAI, I've been wondering what to do differently. Helping students improve their writing is totally different now...that's all I know.
I found this article:
The role of ChatGPT in scientific communication: writing better scientific review articles
My fly-on-the-wall observations on AI and higher education (at least teaching and learning) is that most universities really do not know what to do. Many do not have integrated policies. Most professors don't really know what it is about.
Profs need training, procedural and pedagogical. Universities should be spearheading the response. However, that is not what I see.
Useful and practical OA textbook and guide on research data management and archival.
It situates in the Canadian context, but I think it's useful for anyone who wishes to archive and preserve data on repositories and using FAIR principles of open data and open science.
We did this for our COVID-19 School Dashboard project code and data archived on @borealisdata