@daria Simply better explanations.

I only ever use the #python #documentation to look up specific facts, like constants or string format codes. If I need to *understand* something I look for a tutorial elsewhere.

The docs, like a lot of technical #Wikipedia articles, value accuracy and precision over clarity and understanding.

First make me understand the mental model. Then tweak the specifics. Don't start with the details. #pedagogy #learning

Some notes on things I like to think about: magic and teaching.
https://finiteeyes.net/philosophy/the-trick-of-teaching-magic-and-the-classroom/

#teaching #magic #pedagogy

This week I started an “AI Guidelines” webpage for students in my classes:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/resources/ai-guidelines

It’s a work in progress! If you have suggestions or feedback please let me know.

#edtechSR #MediaLit #NCed #PDSchargers #edtech #AI #ChatGPT #pedagogy

Heute startet für mich der Tagungsmonat September. Ich freue mich auf spannende Vorträge, Workshops und in erster Linie auf gute Gespräche mit inspirierenden Personen. Grüße aus Meran von der #pea-Tagung zu #pedagogy #ecology #arts @PiD

Watching [VIDEO] How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education by Sal Khan #SalKhan on #TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo

#edtechSR #AI #ChatGPT #pedagogy #teaching

As the educational and employee training field evolves, so should our strategies for fostering learning environments that are not just collaborative but also deeply engaging.

https://moodle.com/news/how-to-implement-effective-social-learning-experiences-with-moodle/

#SocialLearning #Pedagogy #MoodleLMS #VLE

#Pedagogy advice from Linus Pauling to Robert Oppenheimer in 1928, when the latter, as a new professor, found himself completing bewildering students in his Berkeley lecture hall:

"If you want to give a seminar or #lecture, decide what it is you want to talk about and then find some agreeable subject of contemplation not remotely related to your lecture and then interrupt that from time to time to say a few words."

(Quoted in 'American Prometheus,' 82-83.)

My fall course, "Future Text: AI and Literatures, Cultures, and Languages" maxed out its 40-student cap on the first day of enrollment. We raised it to 60, and now there's a wait list. 😳 Tonight I'm sending in the proposal for an ACH working group on AI; all are welcome for mutual support! #DigitalHumanities #AI #pedagogy

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBHnnpMxtH_NfV4zl8Hm8je_N1FIpiZoE1745hfFBrk/edit

Handpicked Podcast

The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems’ (LCSFS) podcast Handpicked: Stories from the Field explores how sustainable food system research can change how we produce, get, eat and understand our food. Each episode includes show notes, educational materials such as show notes and a glossary, and audio transcripts.

#Food #FoodStudies #HigherEd #TeachingTools #Podcasts #PodcastsAboutFood #Foodie #AcademicChatter #TeachingFood #Pedagogy

https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/centre-for-sustainable-food-systems/knowledge-sharing/handpicked-podcast.html

The DITI team has worked hard to develop new resources for faculty and students interested in working with digital tools! We encourage the copying, adaptation, and reuse of these resources so anyone can benefit. Here's the official announcement: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/nulab/announcing-template-slides-for-diti-modules/

#pedagogy #digitalhumanities

Students usually attend #OfficeHours right before a deadline (an exam, assignment, presentation) or after receiving their grade. But with a little reframing, office hours can have a transformative effect on students and faculty.

https://ideasonfire.net/office-hours/

#AcademicLife #Pedagogy

"Our pedagogy is coproduced with the material conditions of our labor. And reformist reforms that make instructors better equipped to perform under grueling labor conditions are not the answer. Better labor conditions are."

https://www.publicbooks.org/let-them-eat-pedagogy/

#Pedagogy #Academia #Education #HigherEd #Teaching #Labor

I remember this from the last time I tried to #learn #guitar. Guitar players are *the worst* about indicating how things should be played.

"Your strumming pattern is DD UD DDD UUD" WTF does that even mean? Use a god. damn. time signature! Line it up with the beats!

It does get better when you get into more advanced playing where you need to know some #musictheory.

But I feel like omitting info only gives the appearance of being easy-to-learn while actually being harder. #music #pedagogy

This line in Barbara Baig's writing book triggered a memory: "most adults are very self-conscious about learning anything new."

Years ago I took an ink painting class at my local arts center. A middle-aged woman cried because she wasn't immediately good at it. To me this is a convincing case for #ungrading.

#teaching #pedagogy #Academia #Sociodon #Sociology #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter @academicchatter

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Very considered and thoughtful piece by @Carwil on banning AI-generated text from students.

'In the end, the two main things I’m looking for in class essays are self-reflection and research. And while I can get the appearance of both from large-language model the first is a lie and the second an uncertain and fragile illusion.'

#AcademicChatter #AI #HigherEd #Pedagogy @academicchatter

https://woborders.blog/2023/08/23/why-im-banning-ai/

Climate Change Challenge

Students and teachers across the world are invited to help tackle the climate crisis ahead of #COP28.

Burjeel Holdings and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford have launched the Climate Change Challenge - a global competition for high school students (aged 15 to 18) and teachers.

#ClimateChange #Education #Pedagogy #SDG4 #SDGs
@edutooters

https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/school/sustainability/climate-change-challenge

If you're still thinking about your syllabi for the beginning of the semester, I strongly encourage you to check out this episode about creative assignments: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/cultivate-creative-assignments/
A lot of ideas to mull over in my teaching practice: what's the point of assignments? How can we make them more purposeful?
#pedagogy #HigherEd

📢#OutNow in #OA: 'A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice', by Basem Adi.

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better #educational #policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how #government #policymaking works, developing an #ontological basis from which to examine existing #government approaches and imagine an alternative approach based on a relational realist-informed critical #pedagogy.

Adi casts familiar issues in a new light by drawing on a less familiar theoretical and #metatheoretical tradition, offering a critique that can be productively engaged with by many #educational organizations to tackle the issues they face.

Access at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0327

True. All my syllabi are typically >10 pages long.

The writing was on the wall once universities started treating syllabi like contracts rather than pedagogical tools.

HT @socprof

#AcademicChatter #HigherEducation #Pedagogy @academicchatter

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/college-syllabus-courseware/675069/

Is the concept of 'positive reinforcement' in education respectful of the autonomy of the child/student? Is it not rather a way of manipulating them?

#education #teaching #pedagogy