Universal Design for Learning: Feedback Requested
I’ve had 2 workshop proposals accepted at the second Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). I’m excited to be co-designing and co-presenting with two students who are extremely...
View ArticleExploring Student-Designed Curriculum
On Thursday, two students and I will present a workshop on “Exploring Student-Designed Curriculum” at the Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design for Learning. If you’ll be at the conference,...
View ArticleExploring Student-Designed Assessment using Standards Based-Grading
On Thursday, two students and I will present a workshop on “Exploring Student-Designed Assessment” at the Pan-Canadian Conference on Universal Design for Learning. If you’ll be at the conference,...
View ArticleHacking the Marshmallow Challenge
I use the Marshmallow Challenge at the beginning of every year. I used to do it the way it’s proposed by its originator, Tom Wujec, and widely written about. (TL;DR: you have to build a tower out of...
View ArticleAssessment Practices and Transforming Our Relationships to Power
Today at the American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting, I presented a 30 min talk on how assessment practices can start to transform our relationships to power — inside and outside the...
View ArticleAssessment Q&A
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Summer Meeting about assessment practices that combine rigour, accessibility, and sustainbility to transform relationships to...
View ArticleWhite Board Speed Dating
In the past, when teams of students analyzed class data and made proposals to our shared model (we’re co-creating an inquiry-based emergent curriculum), I had the teams present to the class. Results...
View ArticleQuestioning Authority and Building Models: New Semester Letter to Students
I’ve really struggled this past semester with how strongly (and sometimes angrily) students defend simplistic models even in situations where they don’t work that well or blatantly contradict...
View ArticleHow Diodes Work
A few people have asked recently what exactly is going on inside the PN junction. What concretely is happening? How can we leverage students’ previous knowledge about current and charge? I made these...
View ArticleQuestioning Homophobia’s Beginnings and Envisioning its End: STEM’s Levers of...
On Friday, I gave this talk at oSTEM’s annual conference. For those asking for the slides and links, I think it’s all here. I pre-recorded the talk; here are the videos for Part 1 and Part 2. The...
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