I think this ties into my teaching philosophy quite a bit, which is to explain to students what they need to succeed in science. People today don't always have people offering fostering a mindset that we are all scientists. One of my favorite courses to teach is one on science methods and practices called "Paleobiology" There's a wonderful database online called the paleobiology database. Students can dive into the database and ask research questions that nobody's ever asked before.
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