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Brenda Yang
@brendawyang
UX research @instagram. Formerly PhD @dukepsychneuro, @USC alumna. Lifelong educator & cognitive scientist. She/her.
Jun 19, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Our students come to us with deep, damaging beliefs about intelligence & IQ.

I *really* wanted to teach students about intelligence last fall, but I found myself unprepared. After DAYS learning, I was angry & tired & I dumped everything into the best lesson I could manage then. Image These materials are woefully short of perfect. I think that executed wrong, they could be damaging, so I've put off sharing them.

But as educators, we need to ask ourselves:

Are we empowering students to fight scientific racism wherever they see it, including their own minds? Image
Aug 18, 2019 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Mornin'! So I've been moonlighting as a UX intern with @DukeLibraries for a while, with a focus on web writing for the last year.

Here's my contribution to #AcademicTwitter during syllabus season: insights from user-centered content strategy to syllabus-creation

1/ Good syllabi let people grab and go.

If it's easy to find the right information, then a syllabus can actually be quite lengthy, yet still user-friendly.

If students wanted to figure out the late work policy, could they do it without (re-)reading the whole document?

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