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So! Classes started… I ducked to the math one and well, thought “I should have told ’em I could charge folks a hunnert bux an hour for what I do!!!” … but we’ll see. Today there was a power outage anyway — rumor says animal doin’ something to a transformer. I have sent 2 emails […]
May 28, 2023
…. I can’t get images from the media library here. They get cropped so an otherwise useful image looks like this: Maybe it’s the days off but I’ve been pondering just how extremely dependent I am on outside time structures, arbitrary measuresand people preferences for guiding what I do from moment to moment, including Duolingo […]
May 26, 2023
Sorry, I *don’t* think the answer to that is to keep giving people calculators and … the data says I’m right, too. But hey, they have an IEP!!!! And they’re angry now, at the school that was supposed to be giving them the help they needed. Small town. So they already are working at the […]
May 25, 2023
Bubbling up as it processes: how many people told me to “keep up the good work” and that I must have a lot of patience…. … no, what I bring to the task is NOT patience. (Trust me on that!) These learners learn *differently.* Not “same thing, slow down” (except that the “solution” is to […]
May 24, 2023
Did I talk about yesterday’s “humanizing stats” session? It wasn’t just the videos (short, informal but lots of them), and the surveys (and by the way, extreme preference for surveys over discussion for sharing stuff) but holy cow, straightforward structure, ONBOARDING that first week… Today’s awesome session and I better be able to get the […]
May 19, 2023
welp, so much for poster on fabric! No tracking since it was sent off May 9; Spoonflower says assume it’s lost. They’ll print it again (sigh, no, I didn’t think to edit it with those 3 typos fixed) but it’s Friday, conference is Tuesday. So, glue stick and staples, but yes, I WILL edit it […]
May 15, 2023
I’m impressed with this Hechinger Report “Proof points” article out TODAY about the CUNY experiment with shifting folks from remedial to statistics-with-support and other options. ““But the evidence does not suggest that these corequisite courses are the magic potion that is going to change completion and persistence. It’s going to take a lot more and […]
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