How People Learn: A New Look #AAASmtg Hosted by: Nora Newcombe, Zewelanji Serpell, Cora Marrett, Annemarie Palincsar
"Different cultures place different value on learning by copying/creating, doing/observing, talking/listening, explaining/acting" which can all lead to differences in approaches during cognitive tasks. #AAASmtg
"The key to understanding learning is to have an appreciation for variability and to meaningfully consider variability in its many forms." - Zewelanji Serpell
"A substantial amount of research has shown that facts are better able to be acquired [not by rote learning but] when they are related to other facts and other things about the world." - Rob Goldstone
"Providing the access to technology is just the tip of the iceberg...you have to provide professional development and support, make sure you have equitable access, and need to look at what you are actually assessing and evaluating." - Barbara Means @DigitalPromise
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✨🧵✨ After that insane response to my job news - here’s a thread about how I ended up at my dream job w/Disney & an illustration of why an untraditional path to tech should never stop you (& is maybe better?):
When I was little I loved computers/math/science/the brain/language. My mom was a school psychologist so she always called me her little speech therapist (which makes sense bc to her that was a job that she knew of that involved language).
From the time I was 7yo I was that kid that stomped around saying ‘I’m going to be a speech pathologist!’ I still liked math/science/computers, but figured I could worry about that later.
I went to the 50th Anniversary of The Walt Disney Archives exhibit @BowersMuseum today! Here is a thread of some of the cool Disney history straight from @TWDCArchives (including the first ticket ever purchased at Disneyland!😱) :
I can't believe I used to avoid using code from tutorials. Please do NOT think this is plagiarizing if you're first starting out in data science. Once I started pulling bits+pieces from different tutorials for my personal projects, it was unbelievable how quickly I started 1/4
understanding concepts. By pulling a few lines here and there from different tutorials doing 'the same thing' I start to see what is actually happening in the code and adjust it accordingly for my use. 2/4
Oftentimes this results in something that doesn't even look like where the tutorial started.
Please also always be sure to give credit where credit is due + comment on tutorial pages. 3/4
Literally getting my phd at the only university designed for deaf and hard of hearing students in the world, all of my classes, lectures, comps, defenses, and proposals are in sign language and, even with almost four years’ experience with this...
I learn something new about this culture and language every. single. day. The depth and complexity is equivalent to that of any spoken language culture and, in my humble opinion, tends to be vastly more interesting.
I think bc it INSTANTLY challenges any person’s preconceived (unconscious) notion of what language is.