#Students

I often get questions about what it’s like to do an undergrad at Oxford @CompSciOxford. I didn’t do my own undergrad here, but I do find it a lot of
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During YB @maszlee's tenure as education minister, every other day people were asking him about reforms, his plans for the future of education, making fun of his ideas, policies, keeping
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Are you teaching online? Of course you are. Consider building *disaster elasticity* into your courses. What is disaster elasticity in pedagogy design? You may be able to guess, but you
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China has gone into a soft form of food rationing nationwide, as UN warns of worst global food crisis in 50 yrs. Everyone from Alibaba's Jack Ma to elementary students
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1) Three weeks after Quebec required high school students to wear masks all day in red zones, Premier François Legault announced Monday Grade 9 students will join those in Grades
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I offer a #pandemic timeline for UNC & Chapel Hill - let's go back to 1918 to see what's possibly relevant for today: First weeks of Oct 1918 pandemic hits
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Just finished reading a paper (Techniques for scaffolding retrieval practice: The costs and benefits of adaptive versus diminishing cues) (Fiechter & Benjamin, 2019) that compared adaptive cue retrieval practice (ACRP),
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Accommodating students with disabilities in your classes... some beginner steps: 1. Caption videos and transcribe audio files2. Provide alternative text for images3. Make documents available in native format (docx, pptx)...and
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Howdy, #elaac!Can I just say...that THISworks on every conceivable level?For our younger students, it delivers a timely and poignant message in a recognizable form.But for our Junior High and High
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This story by @AshelyFetters put into words a lot of the thoughts I was having about how schools are trying to replicate the #college campus experience over Zoom. At some
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People are constantly trying to end to stigma around mental health, and yet my twitter feed is full of people complaining that LC’s students aren’t happy about exams being postponed
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oh man...... @14eastmag has one hell of a line up for y'all today. thread: I am so so sooo happy to announce the release of our 2020 Voting Guide! We've
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people who aren’t in higher ed may be unaware of a really weird situation unfolding in academia right now colleges & universities (hereafter just colleges for brevity) are almost universally
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Based on the poll earlier I thought it would be good to introduce some people to hinterland and some good resources to get started! Comment below and share!Hinterland is all
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As I’m working on instructions for my students for changing how their name is displayed on the university system, so that I don’t have to cross-reference lists to find that
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Okay. so: how does this happen?https://twitter.com/kwazana/status/1300397553603604481 First, repair. Whatever else be sure that the faculty of color/black faculty who work with you are tired. If they have checked out, it’s
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