Travis N Thurston, PhD ⚡️ Profile picture
👨🏻‍💻 teacher | Director of Teaching Excellence at USU | Coeditor & Host of @ResiPed | t1d dad | alter ego: Dr. Dynamite🧨 he/him #DigitalPowerups🔋
Feb 20, 2020 21 tweets 13 min read
I'll be live tweeting my takeaways from this event with @joshua_r_eyler ... @joshua_r_eyler 1/ Cultivating growth mindset with our students requires us to encourage them to work to improve, and even if they don't know it or they can't do it, to add the "yet"...
As in, "I don't know it, yet" but encouraging students to keep working through the learning process
Dec 23, 2019 21 tweets 6 min read
Learn to Trust People with Firsthand Experience:
A thread about trust in teaching and learning

My thoughts after reading this article....
#AcademicChatter #teaching #learning #edtech #HumanizeOL #facdev #instructdev
forbes.com/sites/amyander… 1/ Learning to trust people with firsthand experience sounds pretty straightforward and logical, but time and again we see instances of leaders thinking they know better. Such were my thoughts as a young teacher advocating to the State legislature for my job and for my students.
Oct 3, 2019 15 tweets 6 min read
Thread of my takeaways from this event today #USUAggieLife #FacDev #EdTech #HumanizeOL 1/ #UDL is a framework to help us extend learning to all students which addresses learner variability. It's also important to consider that we as humans are feeling machines that think, not the other way around.