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
@ungrading @STEMed
Joined Nov 2022
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Remember when right wing speakers were being "canceled" because students didn't want those guest speakers to show up on their study activity fees?
It was a threat to intellectual freedom!
Where is that energy for COURSES and RESEARCH that's being canceled over this CRT panic?
Also, instructors unions should be meeting and planning actions to back these profs up. Everyone should pull all the courses.
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@ZingerLearns @DrAnneCarpenter @academicchatter
agree - and was surprised at how manageable my inbox was as I started working again today. Seems like people really took a break.
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@DrAnneCarpenter @academicchatter
Have not needed a good clean break over the holidays like I did this year and it seems that is the case with many others.
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This year over the holidays, did you do…
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@natalie @academicchatter @phdlife
I am on the tail end of one of these ruts myself, here are a couple of thoughts to add to what you are doing that have helped me. I suspect you probably know these.
1) carve out consistent time to write daily, even 30 minutes. This helps make a little progress and keep it fresh in your mind.
2) get an accountability/thinking partner one person is great 2 are ok too. Someone who is also working through something similar both for accountability and to have someone bounce ideas off, and an occasional cheerleader. I usually meet with them weekly.
3) small rewards for progress. Create milestones for small celebrations and rewards (I am so not a behaviorist, but these are nice.
4) I try to connect my values to the paper and remind myself how it is contributing to the field, and why it is important to get it out.
Hope that helps, I am going to submit my paper later today 😊
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I am seriously struggling with a paper that I wanted to finish very soon. I am flying back home next week and had set as my only "vacation task" to just finish this paper .. 
All the research is done, even written up before, but with no coherent argument.
After a good two weeks of unwinding (and not working on the paper at all), I now get stressed out and find myself like frozen in front of my document for days.
Just now I forced myself to write at least a few minutes and after all, one and a half pages came out. That's good. But somehow I am so uninspired. That annoys me.
How do I get out of this (self-created) situation of pressure?
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I hope 2023 sees the end of
1) All white panels
2) All man panels
3) All white manels (if you have these, you should be required to include "perspectives of white men on..." as part of the title.
Only 16% of the world pop is white, with 8% of the world pop being white men.
We miss out on a whole lot of brilliance and perspectives when we restrict our panels this way.
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Still one of my all-time favorite education quotes: “Measurable outcomes may be the least significant results of learning.” -Prof. Linda McNeil
(My extended take on why that's true: https://bit.ly/3G1jaj8.)
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If you pay attention to my boosts, you probably know by now that I'm a big fan of @alfiekohn's work. I'm happy to see him become a more regular poster here in the last couple of days. If you're interested in #education, please check him out and consider giving him a follow.
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“For decades, black walnut [trees] were essentially protected from development because they tend to grow on steep hillsides. But in recent years, as LA housing values have soared, it’s become profitable to develop even those accidental refuges. Now, Coyotl + Macehualli is using the tree’s protections to simultaneously achieve several goals: limiting gentrification, fighting extreme heat & deepening the community’s relationship to its ecosystem.” (#HighCountryNews)
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.1/south-social-justice-how-protecting-trees-can-fight-gentrification
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Today is the day Mastodon goes over 9 million accounts! 🎉 #Mastodon
RE: https://bitcoinhackers.org/users/mastodonusercount/statuses/109626104722895684
8,997,459 accounts +700 in the last hour +16,952 in the last day +113,531 in the last week
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New Data: Female College Enrollment Drops at Twice the Rate of Male Students
Significant declines in female freshmen enrollment since fall 2020 pose issues for women’s long-term economic security
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Happy New Year! Thanks to everyone who watched our videos & helped our YouTube channel grow in 2022. Looking forward to learning & growing alongside all of you in 2023!
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
-Isaac Asimov (Today is his day.)
#bookstodon
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Basically every discourse is ruined by our fixation on individual actors rather than the systems that reward and punish them
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RT @POTUS@twitter.com
Starting right now, you can get tax credits to install more energy efficient appliances for your house. Electric ovens, solar panels, heat pumps: you name it.
Save money while fighting climate change.
Want to learn more? Head over to http://CleanEnergy.gov.
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The New Year break is often a time for reflection and planning for me, for the coming day, months, years.
One thing I am focusing more on is creating "dream spaces" sand boxes, and for radical dreaming.
Although the class can be a powerful space for learning, it is highly constrained and I am going to continually work on creating out of school and out of classroom spaces that allow for more radical imagination.
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Police in the US killed 1,176 people in 2022, which is more people than they have killed in any other year in the past decade. Police do not make people safer. Black people are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people and 1.3x more likely to be unarmed when they are killed.
- 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
