#HigherEd folks: Please consider signing and widely sharing this letter re long-term ceasefire & just solution in #Gaza with university colleagues in New England, ideally before 10am on Monday Dec. 4, which is when it will be sent to US Senators representing New England states. The form will continue collecting signatures thereafter.
Note that signatories do NOT have to be US citizens, but must be a resident of CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT.
But here's a really important sentence: "The conclusion that everyone’s learning rate is similar might apply only to well-designed versions of computerized learning. Koedinger thinks students probably learn at different paces in the analog world of paper and pencil, without the same guided practice and feedback. When students are learning more independently, he says, some might be better at checking their own work and seeking guidance."
I provide my college students with lots of opportunity to practice, but a large percentage don't have the motivation to do it. Difficult for me (alone) to provide feedback and enforce practice with 200+ students.
@grant_h@dougpete@oldaily@edutooters The ability to do that may vary depending on level of student. Ours have got to level up in order to get into and succeed in medical school. If they don't do it now, they will just fail later.
My fly-on-the-wall observations on AI and higher education (at least teaching and learning) is that most universities really do not know what to do. Many do not have integrated policies. Most professors don't really know what it is about.
Profs need training, procedural and pedagogical. Universities should be spearheading the response. However, that is not what I see.
@dsmith@jeffgreene@edutooters@psychology
I obviously need to read further, but this stood out "Of all learning outcomes, academic performance had the weakest overall relationship with autonomy support."
To those wondering how my Halloween Pavlovian toss the students a candy bar when they speak experiment went: pretty much the same in both classes.
First 2 students were all “what is going on?” w/ 1 even doing the Pip from LoTR gazing up into the Heavens. The 3rd student then tested the theory that talking generated candy. Once that proved successful, the floodgates opened up. #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon@academicchatter
@beatnikprof@academicchatter Sounds like a bad idea. Most students probably dont want the candy....those that do will just come to expect it. Dont feed the rhinos.
"New Evidence That Ancient Footprints Push Back Human Arrival in North America
Following up a on study in 2021 of tracks found in New Mexico, researchers used more methods to bolster the claim that the tracks are up to 23,000 years old."
I am looking a journal submission website of a SAGE journal run with Manuscript Central. The login option via ORCID is gone, instead one can log in with "Web of Science (TM)". What fresh hell is this? This was running perfectly (almost) with ORCID, why does one now need an account with Clarivate (which I don't want to)? Is MC owned by Clarivate? @academicchatter
I'm increasingly convinced that the sheer mass of casual, informal writing that undergrads have done on a daily basis until they get to college has undermined their ability both to think critically about what others have written and to write with rigor themselves. Basic logic seems more and more a missing skill, and falacious reasoning increasingly fills the void. Please, someone convince me we're not on our way to the future as portrayed in "Idiocracy." :-( #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
@cra1g@academicchatter Same goes for simple mathematical reasoning. Not considering that numbers reflect things in real life and how they relate to one another. It renders them totally helpless.