Dr. Becca Price: I learned about a wonderful young adult author named Nadi Okorafor from a previous guest and she has a trilogy the first book of which is called A Kada Witch that goes into a different kind of magic that those of us in the west typically read. Do I have time for one more recommendation? You bet, I mean you have time for 10, no sorry I'm kidding but like oh these are so much fun to use.
Rebecca Price shares how to not be perfect in teaching and learning on episode 450 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When is it ok to say I made a mistake?
-Rebecca Price
I embrace mistakes.
-Rebecca Price
Perfection does not mean learning.
-Rebecca Price
Resources
- Lucy (Australopithecus)
- Apple Fitness+ Time to Walk with Anderson Cooper
- The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind, by Patricia K Kuhl, Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff*
- The paleobiology database
- Becca’s Science Methods and Practice Course Syllabus
- Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty time, by Linda Nilson
- Episode 443 with David Clark: Arbitrary Limits (including due dates)
- A Time for Telling, Schwartz and Bransford
- Classroom sound can be used to classify teaching practices in college science courses, Melinda T. Owens, Shannon B. Seidel, Mike Wong, and Kimberly D. Tanner
- TextExpander’s public groups – with ready-made snippets you can add to your collection and use
- TextExpander Physics-Greek Symbols snippets