Teacher Eric @teacher_eric@scholar.social
TESOL in higher ed, adult ed, and immigrant&refugee contexts in the Pacific Northwest USA.
Interesting recommendations to build rapport with students.
The rationale for no icebreakers is to avoid activities that some students have reported as annoying. I'm constitutionally unable to avoid that one.
The authors make an argument for pop quizzing being a way to avoid unpleasantness on both sides around testing. Curious what others think...
#popquiz #studentrapport #SoTL #highered
(Wilson, Willson, and Legg, in Evidence-based teaching for higher education, 2012)https://scholar.social/media/JPC4qE4Acmp7rvpxv7w
Manson is dead and Mugabe is deposed. If the rule of threes were fair, Trump would be done next...
Mastodon analytics • Details of user growth and usage, per instance https://dashboards.mnm.social/dashboard/db/instance-detail?refresh=1m&orgId=1&from=now-1y&to=now&var-instance=mastodon.social #linkblog
Always forgetting that the fresh back to school energy of the start of fall term is a trade-off for the dead eyed mornings in mid November, aka the real end of the term...
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The addictive technological tools of consumption driven revenue growth are being perverted into mechanisms for command and control. https://octodon.social/media/UjTv39HbwqbOjMnHh7s
A black woman, a trans woman, and a Latina walk into the Virginia House of Delegates ...
Tfw you find a really active Mastodon contributor and think you can finally show your Twitter friends some traction here...
And then realize it's just re-tooting from Twitter...😑
100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses. #Showerthoughts
Terry Greene discusses the open faculty patchbook.
It's exciting to think about these community of practice driven, multimedia, collaborative projects! Definitely thinking about open Ed next year. Need to check out the project to see if it included #interculturalcompetence.
Hi all, I'm Eric. I teach English to international students, immigrants, and refugees in a variety of settings. I work with everything from features of advanced academic discourse to preparation for U.S. citizenship.
Lately, I've been trying to expand my awareness of multimedia, tech, and social media in education.
I recently joined the birdspace, and found great critical perspectives on education, technology, and society. Hope that conversation will come here, too.
@socrates Mastodon beginner questions: 1) Is there a patreon or way to support you running this instance? 2) Is there a way to batch follow? I have a list of folks from metafilter who I'd love to add, and figure there must be a better way than click and click through 40+ users...
