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17
Apr

Recommended reads #171

Noted philosophers reconsider their key insights after a month of social distancing. George Saunders’s letter to his students about
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15
Apr

Why privilege should be part of our conversations as natural scientists?

This is a guest post by Edauri Navarro Pérez. During my years as an undergraduate student I noticed that different
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06
Apr

What music are you working to?

The pandemic is, quite sensibly, consuming a lot of our energy and most of us are stretched quite thin. I
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03
Apr

Recommended reads #170

Flatten the curve of armchair epidemiology Math teachers should be more like football coaches Why live teaching isn’t always
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30
Mar

No, the pandemic is not making me more productive

Thank goodness, nobody I am working with has asked or expected me to maintain my productivity at the level it
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22
Mar

Recommended reads #169

I hope you all are safe, well, and that your loved ones are cared for. I’m not positioned to
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18
Mar

Changing pass/fail policies for this absurdly discombobulated semester

Yesterday, I was reading how some K-12 districts were switching to a pass/fail model for this semester. Two beats
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13
Mar

Recommended reads #168

Here is a rather substantial list of sites with online laboratory modules for a great variety of STEM disciplines. If
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10
Mar

Advice post: Teaching in the time of COVID-19

Some of us have already stopped holding classes in person. It looks like a lot more of us will be
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09
Mar

How is your classroom management?

Did you hear about the recent-ish story about the white professor who called the cops into his classroom to exert
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