Peter Newbury

Learning styles:
STILL
NOT
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THING!
#smh

Have you been to Sabor Latino in Brandon? I was there in May and it was…okay.

I was flying recently with my sister-in-law. She has a disability and I was helping her get settled, get coffee. The flight attendant was like, "ahh, so nice how you're helping your mother. I see the family resemblance."

😮

First, she's only 8 yrs older than me. And second, we're not related! 😂

A timeline cleanser for course instructors realizing classes start next month 🤯, via @drjessicariddell.bsky.social:

[T]eaching is a an exercise in hope: you must live in a world where you cannot see the impact you might have in some distant future you might never access - and do it anyway.

Great, thanks for letting me know. I’m hoping to sign up and tune in!

She @drjessicariddell.bsky.social continues: "Most of this rage is directed at the inequitable systems that do not value, compensate, or recognize impact in its diverse forms." (Hope Circuits, 2024)

Here's @drjessicariddell.bsky.social in Hope Circuits (2024): "[T]he paradox between what our values <it>are</it> and <it>how</it> we value things has generated a tremendous amount of unprocessed rage that requires our immediate attention."

"Selection bias? There's no selection bias! Go ahead, knock on any office door down this hallway (well, not during the Summer, hehe) and everyone will tell you they succeeded. John will. So will Jeff and Michael and Bill and the other Michael. And Bruce and Fred and the other Jeff." 😂

I can empathize with their argument, though. Every one of their colleagues, all the people they collaborate with, succeeded in that system. It surprises me when a prof is aware of all the talented people who were not given the opportunity to succeed. They’re typically great educators. Imagine that!

So much of the #HigherEd space is dominated by the American response to systemic barriers and injustice: anger, disgust, despair. I’m grateful for the alternative story you tell in Hope Circuits, a story of hope and change, of opportunity and possibility.

"Science moved away" and yet, I regularly work with STEM course instructors who say, "Active learning, schmative learning. ectures worked for me. And all my colleagues." They don't often recognize the 99% of students who did not succeed.

@caitskirby.bsky.social Are you still running your "Making group work work" workshop on Friday? I support course instructors teaching in our active learning classrooms. I often get questions about active learning and groups with neurodivergent students. Will that come up?

Congrats, Anthony!

Yeah, and we spent, what, 2 or 3 years just sitting at home, right?

(Good luck with the new-old courses. Remember, set your sights on One Big Thing (not n>>1) And keep it simple. 💪)

What are you worried about? Nothing about teaching and learning has changed in the world since 2019, right 🤪

@quioui.bsky.social Terrific Tom Lehrer story about the album you shared yesterday

Is that >your< thumb in the pic? Like, this is your almost 75-year-old album?

🤣

ahh, I see the subtlety. If I want to sit behind the Jays dugout for every game, I need to buy 162 tix. And I I want to sit behind the Tigers dugout for every game, I buy 162 tix. And I’ll HAVE TWO TIX for the Jays/Tigers game, one behind each dugout 😵‍💫

Well every game is double-counted, right? Right now, I guess I’m simultaneously watching the Jays game and the Tigers game

Re “500”. That must be the same convention that a player who hits 3 outta 10 (ie 0.300 of the time) is “batting 300”. Isn’t there something about a language defining a culture? There’s def a baseball culture 😄

Oh, that’s a really clever way to think of it. In my 10-game interpretation, is Jays lost 10 games they’d be 62-52 and that’s def not .500. Yeah, I’m going with you (and Jamie). With a win tonight, Jays will be 20 games above .500 🥳⚾️

@wilnerness.bsky.social Math and baseball stats nerd question for you: Is 62-42 record 20 games above .500 or 10? My math brain says 52 wins is .500 so 62-42 is 10 games above. But “20 games” (like Jamie just said on the broadcast) sounds waaaaay better!

If you want to talk #AvGeek with a physics accent, I’m sure @rogerfreedman.bsky.social would be happy to oblige!

I did it! I had an intense conversation with my institution's Strategic Lead for GenAI. They listened to me, I listened to them. Most importantly, they know I'm a Cassian (openly and often uncomfortably critical) and not a stormtrooper (yes sir, pew pew) nor a Jung (secretive shit disturber)

And it's by David Austin at GVSU who's (i) a great math educator (he was one of my profs at grad school at UBC! Small 🌎, huh?) (ii) is at GVSU so you >know< he's chatted about it with @roberttalbert.bsky.social and @dccmath.bsky.social and I'd listen to anything they all say about math education

Btw @grimalkina.bsky.social, a panel at SDCC is soooo fricking cool! Congrats!

Rebel alliance symbol from Andor. Is it a bird? a star rising behind a planet?

@analog-ashley.bsky.social @grimalkina.bsky.social FFS. I'm angry with how my institution is diving headlong into GenAI. I whisper the word "dissent" to trusted colleauges. After your Andor episode, I feel an obligation, even a responsibility, to use the trust and access granted me to speak up.

Please keep sharing your Herzberger Quader adventures. We have an institution-wide professional development day each year and you've got me thinking about creating a station (or inspiring one of my math colleagues to do it!)

Screenshot from Stephen Shaw’s column in Psychology Today: You can use LLM to take shortcuts. What are you taking shortcuts from? Being a credible professional? Thinking? Working? Innovating? Being yourself? Humanity? Living?

Thought-provoking and hard-hitting column by @shawpsych.bsky.social about Gen AI in #HigherEd. I particularly like this point using LLMs to get your work done faster 🔥

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...