ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org
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- Southern California, USA
- Interests
- STEM teacher preparation, anti-racist teaching, environmental justice teaching, humanizing pedagogy
STEM teacher educator. Humanizing teaching and learning. Believer of student brilliance. Luddite. Disbeliever of silver bullets. Nobody is coming to save us. #Edutoot #Ungrading #STEMed
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Joined Nov 2022
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4. The truth about SBF's political spending is an example of his duplicity. But, more importantly, it illustrates how the public has no idea who is actually funding candidates in the United States.
@viji thanks for sharing.
A course audit of readings is an easy step to gain insight into whose voices are present and whose are not in curriculum. It helped me in reframing a course I took over teaching a few years ago. I just downloaded the pictures of the first 16 authors to get a snapshot, and it prompted some action.
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RT @TracieAddy@twitter.com
My new article in Thriving in Academe. “There is a need for introspective reflection in #HigherEd. And, given our deeply entrenched history of exclusion, making change may be like trying to climb a tall mountain. Yet there is hope.” https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/inclusive-teaching-effective-teaching @PODNetworkHQ@twitter.com @NEAToday@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TracieAddy/status/1598121205072289794
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@dougholton @academicchatter it is interesting to see and watch how this migration is starting, not knowing exactly how wide it will be and how it will end. Anecdotally and perhaps not surprisingly I am generally seeing more tech savvy and more privileged folx moving over at higher rates right now.
@DavidKnuffke it is nice to see you here from the bird app. I appreciate your voice and thoughts. This feels a little like moving to a new town and seeing some old friends moved as well.
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a reminder that rail workers’ wild demand is simply to get a few paid sick days and *not be penalized* for taking time off for illness… during a pandemic.
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It is academic job offer season. Don’t leave resources on the table. My coauthors and I wrote a piece on all the things you can negotiate for in a start up package outside of the salary (specific to political science, but probably similar in econ, other social sciences). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/wow-i-didnt-know-these-options-existed-understanding-tenuretrack-startup-packages/2D4EBC319921435782EA95109E223C90
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I hope that one day platform’s like Mastodon are the norm. No more for profit social media. No central billionaire owner.
For us, it makes it a much more organic, logical and pleasant experience.
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2. @BernieSanders@twitter.com and a group of House progressives objected to Biden's plan, saying that the rail workers deserve paid sick leave and the railroad companies can easily afford it.
That's not unexpected.
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1. Fearing economic disruption, Biden called on Congress to pass legislation preventing rail workers from striking, imposing a contract that includes no paid sick leave.
But an unlikely coalition is pushing back.
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Capitalism
It is hard to read an article like this one about exploitative loans to unjustly imprisoned persons, awaiting their settlements from the state, and not think that the wheels are coming off of capitalism. Of course they aren’t. The system is working exactly as it has been designed to do: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/nyregion/high-interest-loans-exonerated-prisoners.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSVUZBCbTTMIqoRyBg7_PwbM8w374MCWPRC1eiuASCo6bvkrdYqxufdIv0jjeXMVAK7gpSeZpiO9DOkgnAy-Znqy5orVXaSMktdD0GWosw5PGWb1_-G-1N2CyI7k6leC15FfbPmPvRPfY1Cc-JQw0pZYyJViqi3ZZ1b6FRrAuoqR21PgrAZl9QTgSNmLd77SzVUIIaJjRZQrc6wI2R-laRTrW-NWf4LgLewxSYknUGDI9uS1vrYMBZ65Eefr3PBUie8Hhgb4OCmQOL4-hBZ05RoO8hKx6vFdRs0YpGgpFMVeSjCNV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@paulbruno what's the over/under on the T-1000 going full active?
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Over 400 #educators have added themselves to this list via @mguhlin of folks trying out mastodon: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1beJHWsuB0MJDMqeg_q8pBRWRdQImY-n8E6PttoJLFaM/edit?usp=sharing
Add yourself! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzCcJb12XQ_ZrGg7TaCnGHCm6u1Ez1K3N88UbX8MbcnScifQ/viewform
Follow them by going to the CSV_Export tab->File->Download->Comma Separated Values and then in your mastodon preferences->Import and export->Import.
Other academics on mastodon: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Other tutorials & info: https://www.mguhlin.org/p/fediverse-tootorials-including-mastodon.html
#EduTooter #EduTwitter #Education #Teacher @edutooters
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Ignoring the pandemic doesn't make it go away. All it does is disproportionately shift all of the burden of the pandemic on to the people who are the most vulnerable and have the fewest resources.
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Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)
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A massive legal and PR effort has been launched to kill offshore wind in America, arguing the renewable technology hurts the environment.
Who's behind it? A climate denial group, heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry.
@curious_founder@twitter.com and I report:
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Ruby Bridges was the first Black child allowed to attend a white public school in the US on November 14, 1960. She’s only 68 and currently and activist and speaker. Here she is with her first teacher at the school(the only one willing to teach her), Barbara Henry. Not ancient history. #EduTooter #LeadInclusion #BlackHistory #inclusion #education
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1. The nation's 100K+ rail workers get ZERO paid sick days
They want FOUR
And are threatening to strike December 9
In response, corporate America is demanding Congress intervene and force them to continue working without any paid sick days
I have been in conversation with a number of current and potential Ph.D. students over the last few weeks, and it is application season, so I figured I would make a few toots in consideration for getting a Ph.D. over the next few days.
Will start with a few thoughts about "should I pursue a Ph.D.?"
Would love to hear from others as well.
These thoughts are entirely my opinion and I emphasize the nuanced, individual, and variable response and considerations to the question.
An additional caveat is that I focus on Ph.D. programs here as those housed in top research universities in the US as i am most familiar with those. These would be ~5 year programs, fully funded and providing a TA or RA stipend.
I think a central consideration is "is the Ph.D. worth it?" And that raises a few questions in no particular order.
1) what would earning a Ph.D. mean to me, my family, my community?
2) what career opportunities will be opened to me if I have a Ph.D.? If any?
3) what might I learn and become a leading global expert on during the Ph.D. program?
4) what might I learn or how might I further my career through other pathways, including working during the 5 years I would be in a Ph.D. program?
5) What is the long term financial cost/benefit of a Ph.D.? That is what is the income gain/loss during the 5 years and what is the potential lifetime additional earnings with the Ph.D?
What questions/considerations would others raise?
- Location
- Southern California, USA
- Interests
- STEM teacher preparation, anti-racist teaching, environmental justice teaching, humanizing pedagogy
STEM teacher educator. Humanizing teaching and learning. Believer of student brilliance. Luddite. Disbeliever of silver bullets. Nobody is coming to save us. #Edutoot #Ungrading #STEMed
@ungrading @STEMed
Joined Nov 2022
