@cleander

biology educator, contrarian, roller skater and baker. Professor of Teaching @UBC, alumni @UGA @HSU (opinions my own, but should be yours too)

 Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined October 2008
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Celeste Leander retweeted
Sesame Street
@sesamestreet24 Jul 2023
The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX
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Jayme Dyer, PhD@YouTooBio13 Jul 2023
As promised, the 1st of 3 blog posts detailing my take-aways from the several teaching conferences I attended this year. I organized the ideas by topic - this one is on Grading & Assessment Structures that Promote Learning. See below for teasers👇 jaymedyer.com/blog/fl9slt8qb…
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#subtweet If a prospective student wrote me an email addressing me “Hi miss,” you know what I would think? I would think “this person is respectful and may be from an underrepresented community, I can’t wait to learn more about them.”
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12% of Americans live in California - but 30% of homeless Americans, and 50% of unsheltered Americans, call California "home." This prompts endless schadenfreude from "red state" partisans, and is waved as proof of the failure of liberal policies. 1/
A homeless person's tent under a freeway underpass. From it emerges the bear from the California state flag. Image: Wonderlane (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/71401718@N00/34328251571 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

ALT A homeless person's tent under a freeway underpass. From it emerges the bear from the California state flag. Image: Wonderlane (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/71401718@N00/34328251571 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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UBC launches early childhood education certificate program for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people Learn more: bit.ly/3OJlnWp #EarlyChildhoodEducation #InclusiveEducation
Sign language teacher in an extra tutoring class with a deaf child girl using American Sign Language.

ALT Sign language teacher in an extra tutoring class with a deaf child girl using American Sign Language.

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On a day when my waves resemble the gales of November, I ask... Does any one know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Rest in peace, Gordon Lightfoot, you will always have a place here. It's been good to know ya. 🙏🌊
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Katie Marshall@ke_marshall1 May 2023
Marching at UBC in support of increased student and post doc support. @SupportOurSci !
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Universities who rely on students to subsidize their real estate costs by commuting large distances because they can’t afford housing nearby, are not engaged with the local community. #HigherEd
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if I accomplish one thing in this lifetime it will be shouting at the maximum possible number of people that it is incredibly expensive to have people living in tents on the sidewalk and it would be orders of magnitude cheaper to simply house them
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In a society focused on work-life- balance, we have overlooked students A full time #HigherEd student in Canada takes 5 courses/per semester, each with an expectation of 10-12 hrs of meaningful engagement per week That's a 55 hr work week We need an #EducationRevolution
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Grow Beyond Grades@GBGEdu9 Apr 2023
"You can't give students agency over their grades if you're not giving them agency over the entire learning process." @Bali_Maha @Jessifer @AsaoBInoue ctt.ec/4I81f+

College Under COVID-19 - Part 1 — Grow Beyond Grades

Arthur Chiaravalli interviews Maha Bali, Jesse Stommel, and Asao B. Inoue on COVID-19 implications for the future of college and how we can put access and equity at the center of plans to resume.

growbeyondgrades.org
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Donald Clark
@DonaldClark6 Apr 2023
"using AI to generate a first draft helped some students stop worrying about the blank page and focus on the critical phase of the assignment. It can help you move beyond particular pain points when those aren’t part of the learning goals of assignment,” technologyreview.com/2023/04…
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Jodie Martin@jodiemartinphd29 Aug 2022
UBC EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, hear this news and rejoice! I fixed the UBC CV template and offer it to you as my gift to you all. There's a navigation pane and font styles and automatic paragraph spacing and consistent formatting and more. Pass it on. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
A screenshot of the Navigation Pane from MS Word with the headings of the UBC CV template for teaching stream, appropriately numbered and nested. It's a thing of beauty.

ALT A screenshot of the Navigation Pane from MS Word with the headings of the UBC CV template for teaching stream, appropriately numbered and nested. It's a thing of beauty.

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Bamfield MSC@BamfieldMSC31 Mar 2023
We are seeking an Animal Care Technician/Animal Care Administrator. Apply Now! Details and application deadline: bit.ly/3TZZSRB
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Ian Linkletter@Linkletter29 Mar 2023
An academic surveillance technology giant blinked today.
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Alfie Kohn@alfiekohn25 Mar 2023
I've never been able to improve on the management theorist Frederick Herzberg's timeless 10-word maxim: "Idleness, indifference, and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work." (Teachers/parents: Feel free to substitute "worksheets" for "absurd work.")
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HM🦋@hsmiceli22 Mar 2023
There is way to much focus on content. To the point it drives students away from the sciences (and away from scientific literacy).
Joe Milliano@MrJoeMilliano21 Mar 2023
Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?
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OPINION: Vote so that we may start to see a day where Transgender lives are not up for debate. ubyssey.ca/opinion/letter-tr…
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Ian Linkletter@Linkletter3 Mar 2023
I don't understand why this isn't front page news! The Founding Fathers were time traveling cheats! According to GPTZero, an AI text detection tool which claims to be highly accurate, Article 1 Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution was "likely to be written by AI". (via /r/ChatGPT)
Screenshot of GPTZero showing the majority of Article 1 Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution highlighted in yellow, which is labeled as "sentences highlighted are more likely to be written by AI". Highlighted text includes: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons..." (continues in original text)

ALT Screenshot of GPTZero showing the majority of Article 1 Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution highlighted in yellow, which is labeled as "sentences highlighted are more likely to be written by AI". Highlighted text includes: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons..." (continues in original text)

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Dr. Erin Whitteck@EWhitteck1 Mar 2023
Forgive yourself if your context does not set you up for success to make large curricular or grading changes. That is on the system, not on you.
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