I'm feeling super tired today, but I had a senior come pop in this afternoon after having him in chemistry for the previous two years to tell me he was accepted into Michigan State University's chemical engineering program.
I'm feeling pretty good now.
Today in the classroom:
We had a long holiday weekend followed by a snow day with _another_ snow day likely for Friday. It's a mess.
First year chem is finally taking their bonding test. We'll see how it goes.
Second year chem is peer-teaching factors affecting reaction rate. Hopefully, we'll do the iodine clock tomorrow to collect reaction rate data to analyze.
This #genAI Brookings report reminds me of an old insight about #teaching, #socialMedia, etc.
PASSIVE use/consumption is the problem.
ACTIVE, deliberative engagement or learning is superior.
I realized this only a decade ago, but it's a common result.
For example, “passively consuming information about people in our digital social network is linked to lower subjective well-being; conversely, actively broadcasting and exchanging information with people in our digital social network is linked to higher subjective well-being (Verduyn et al. 2017).”
– Byrd 2020, page 230 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50585-1_11)
Last week, I gave my crash course
"Science as Process and Perspective — Become a Better Researcher through Philosophy"
for the PhD students at the Learning Planet Institute in Paris (where I first developed this course in 2018).
As always, the students were truly excellent, I received extremely positive feedback, and I've learnt so much from the discussions!
**You can bring this course to your local institution!**
More info here: https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/philosophy.html
Last week, I gave my crash course
"Science as Process and Perspective — Become a Better Researcher through Philosophy"
for the PhD students at the Learning Planet Institute in Paris (where I first developed this course in 2018).
As always, the students were truly excellent, I received extremely positive feedback, and I've learnt so much from the discussions!
**You can bring this course to your local institution!**
More info here: https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/philosophy.html
Today in the classroom:
We had a snow day yesterday, which helped me recover some energy & vigor.
First year chem will review for their bonding test next week.
Second year chem is starting kinetics. We'll look at the overall principle and write some reaction rate expressions. We'll also connect it to stoichiometry and consider rate ratios for products and reactants. They'll also finish their gases homework if we have time.
Today in the classroom:
First year chem is wrapping up ionic and covalent bonding. We'll draw some Lewis structures together on whiteboards and then they'll have time to work on their review materials for the test on Friday.
Second year chem is wrapping up gases. We'll do AP Chem practice multiple choice questions and a couple calculations before they finish up their weekly homework. No test this week, we'll move into kinetics tomorrow.
I'm thinking about simplifying covalent Lewis structure procedure to have students just line up unpaired electrons to form bonds. We're not doing exceptions to the rules (no expanded octets) and every one I've tried so far has worked.
My "rightness" alarm is ringing a little, but for conceptual understanding, I think it will work for this first year class.
Today in the classroom:
First year chem is taking a short quiz on ions and ionic bonds. Then, we'll do some simple Lewis diagrams for covalent compounds.
Second year chem is collecting hydrogen gas over water and doing some stoichiometry to round out our gases mini unit.
“Analysis of Biological Data with Python” started today for our biology bachelor students 🧬🐍
If you are interested in learning Python for data analysis, the course slides are freely available here:
https://github.com/bpucker/teaching/tree/master/WBIO-A-07
#Python #DataAnalysis #Biology #OpenEducation #OpenScience #Teaching #Bioinformatics #BigData #DataScience
@PuckerLab
“Analysis of Biological Data with Python” started today for our biology bachelor students 🧬🐍
If you are interested in learning Python for data analysis, the course slides are freely available here:
https://github.com/bpucker/teaching/tree/master/WBIO-A-07
#Python #DataAnalysis #Biology #OpenEducation #OpenScience #Teaching #Bioinformatics #BigData #DataScience
@PuckerLab
Today in the classroom:
First year chem is comparing and contrasting ionic and covalent bond mechanisms and drawing diagrams all over the place. They take a quiz tomorrow.
Second year chem is wrapping up gases with partial pressures. We'll collect gas over water tomorrow to learn a new technique and do some stoichiometry with the results.
Hi!
We're starting a project to teach philosophy in prison around these parts. Do you or someone you know have any experience with this? If so, please DM me or email me (you can find my email on my website)!
Have philosophers in your timeline? Please boost!
Introducing #ektupy https://kushaldas.in/posts/introducing-ektupy.html #python #learning #kids #scratch #browser #django #community #pyscript #teaching #programming
Please share it across and let me know what you made using this :)
Today in the classroom:
First year chem will do Lewis diagrams for ionic compounds. They'll draw neutral atoms and then use arrows to show which atoms lose electrons and where they go. This will baby-step us into writing ionic compound formulas.
Second year chem is wrestling with their first lab report for the semester over their Charles' Law data. They'll have today to finish graphs and submit. We'll do partial pressures next week & collect gas over water.
Introducing #ektupy https://kushaldas.in/posts/introducing-ektupy.html #python #learning #kids #scratch #browser #django #community #pyscript #teaching #programming
Please share it across and let me know what you made using this :)
I have a (slightly?) crazy idea for my second-year chemistry class next year. Instead of running labs on specific days, I want to prepare a year-long lab manual. Students would have a block of time in which to complete a specific number of labs.
This does two things: makes my planning easier - I know lab days would _always_ be Tues/Thurs. I can also prep blocks of labs and not do so much day to day lab prep.
Any HS #chemistry teachers doing anything like this?
Hi!
We're starting a project to teach philosophy in prison around these parts. Do you or someone you know have any experience with this? If so, please DM me or email me (you can find my email on my website)!
Have philosophers in your timeline? Please boost!
