Biologist, educator, and wanton feminist. Anti-fascist. Anti-racist. she/her/them/they
Jan 3, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Ugh, I hate to pile on, but as a teacher I really, really wish parents wouldn't pull shit like this. I have kids who have internalized this "lesson" - that they have to figure things out, alone, instead of asking for help or seeking out expertise. It hobbles real learning.
Let's say a kid is trying to use a spreadsheet to calculate the average of their data. I've given them the formula, but when they put it into the spreadsheet it doesn't work! A kid like this will do it by hand. But it would take me ten seconds to know *exactly* what went wrong.
Feb 18, 2019 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Let's talk about #PaperCircuits and how my students actually go about making them. In total, we spent twelve days of class time on this project, (two intro days of lessons and ten days of project time), but there are easy ways to scale it back and make less of a project of it.
My goals for this #projectbasedlearning are as follows:
* Learn how electricity moves through a circuit
* Learn how loose connections & short circuits can cause circuitry to fail
* Learn to solder
* Practice Prototyping
* Practice troubleshooting problems
* Meld art & science
