The best thing I accomplished today was getting a class of first year university students to go from completely withdrawn and silent observers to being actively engaged and answering questions and making guesses by the end of lecture. YES.
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@sundogplanets Bravo! Quite the accomplishment.
@sundogplanets That is incredible and fantasti!
@sundogplanets well done, when this happens it makes it all make sense for a moment, right?
@sundogplanets The spark is lit!
@sundogplanets I was TA for a semester and I was never able to do this 😭
@sundogplanets any secrets to share on getting that to happen?
@mwyman Getting them to talk to each other before having to speak in front of the whole class really seems to help a lot.
Well done, Prof!
@sundogplanets "Professor Lawler, will I be able to get my degree before the satellites cut off all the sunlight and we all die?"
@lauren And then I just burst out crying and the magic of a good teaching moment is gone
@sundogplanets DUDE YES.
You might have just radicalized somebody.