WELCOME TO the 10th Annual March Mammal Madness Tournament! (1/N) #2022MMM
Everything is going great and some people are saying this is the best tournament launch ever. (2/N) #2022MMM
As of 2:22 on 2-22-2022, N=6000+ educators had requested curricular materials to use MMM with their N=540,000+ learners! Clearly, the tournament is doing numbers, as the kids say. (3/N) #2022MMM
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Traffic to the @ASULibraries March Mammal Madness KEEP collection was a teensy bit overwhelming last night and this morning, requiring a reboot of the servers. (4/N) #2022MMM
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Whether this is your 10th or 1st time playing March Mammal Madness, #2022MMM is going to be AMAZING!
And while you can be any level of high to ride this ride, there are different ways to play (5/N)
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STEP 1 for Everyone: Bookmark ASU LibGuide, curated by the brilliant Scholarly Comm Librarian Anali Perry @grumpator bc this has all the bracket links, the guidance on researching combatants, & finding out the tournament battle outcomes. (6/N) #2022MMMlibguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMad…
STEP 2 for You
Follow @2022MMMletsgo. The account ONLY RTs & creates OFFICIAL MMM tweets, safe for classroom use, safe to direct your students to follow [7/N] #2022MMM
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Step 3 for We
BASK IN THE EPIC GLORY OF THIS TOURNAMENT TRAILER by @jengabrys (8/N) #2022MMM
Step 4 for More:
Get the key rules, some specifics about the 2022 Tournament, essential links, & meet the TEAM! (9/N) #2022MMMdrive.google.com/file/d/1PHXPzb…
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Okay, now it's time to choose your own MMM adventure...
you can casually pick your winners in the bracket, relying on familiarity & seedings #LevelBasic (10a/N) #2022MMM
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Or you can get very serious about your research with a deep knowledge of tournament game mechanics & past events #LevelSuperFan @NatickBobCat has a purrfect rundown here:
Feb 25th there's a #2022MMM Festival with @EBTSOYP: different panels each hour of so many amazing MMM Scientists and Artists. Learn about their adventures with animals, fossils, robots, and DIRE WOLF DNA! (14/N) #2022MMMdrive.google.com/file/d/1zg8fsX…
Got a 4th grader in your household? Help them sign-up for their FREE National Parks Pass with the Every Kid Outside program & you could even do the MMM lesson plan as a family (16/N) #2022MMM everykidoutdoors.gov/index.htm
In the lead up to the wild card, you can forget the tournament is going on, or get real serious about following and/or engaging in all the #2022MMM banter (17/N)
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Details about the week of Exhibition Games is forthcoming... I'll add it to this thread March 1. #StayTuned (18/N) #2022MMM
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And then once it's officially tournament time, again you have some options, outlined carefully in this thread from last year (19/N) #2022MMM
Figuratively speaking, whether you do a flailing bellyflop into the mighty river of MMM, or wade the tangled banks looking for crawdads, or just briefly dip your toes, we are so glad you are here. (19/N) #2022MMM
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So get ready rock-steadies, March Mammal Madness is going to be inTENse. (20/N) #2022MMM
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& always remember the March Mammal Madness Motto and Mantra-
If you're LEARNING, you're WINNING!
(21/N) #2022MMM
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For a few years now, but ESPECIALLY codified this semester, I allow students Revise & Resubmit options on essay writing assignments- I give substantive writing feedback, grade accurately, and let them know they can R&R and/or apply the feedback to subsequent assignments... (1/N)
Yes, it's a substantial amount of work for me BUT since some of the same issues come up a lot, I have a bank of "pro-tips" I can pull from- so I am not LINE-EDITING their essays, so much as highlighting examples & giving them broadly applicable pro-tips... (2/N)
Common themes of feedback: 1) Identifying & prioritizing recent, scholarly sources (differentiating primary, secondary, tertiary sources and when & how to use them). 2) Weaving citations together WITHIN paragraphs. 3) STRONG TOPIC SENTENCES. (3/N)
The teacher became symptomatic on May 19, but continued to work for 2 days before receiving a test on May 21.
"during this time <of active COVID symptoms>, the <unvaccinated> teacher read aloud unmasked to the class despite school requirements to mask while indoors."
Let's talk about the ways that humans socially learn, bc without that context it may be hard to understand how we got to the "folks taking livestock medication & shitting themselves in public" situation (🧵)
As humans, our adaptive cognitive architecture for social learning is <chef's kiss>
(also, y'all should go ahead & follow Prof @MichelleAKline bc she is really in the know about all this)
From an individual perspective, learning things through "trial & error" or "guess & check" is fraught with pitfalls. At BEST it can take a LOT of time, limiting how much a person can learn in lifetime...