Me too, and I also used vocabulary as a proxy for prior knowledge in my studies many times. SVR does explain a ton of variance... Its just all the factors that get loaded on those two scales that bugs me.
Proud to be submitting this proposal on conferences and climate change with @autumm and @chendricksUBC on how we can lower carbon footprint of conferences while striving for better equity https://jgmac1106.me/climatecrisis #ncte19 #lra19
Being Thanksgiving it was a little light. I weas able to record video feedback for everyone in one session of #edu307. I wanted to finish both but with the holiday and visitors it was hard to sneak way. I finished a grant application for our #OER Ghana page and I also built a page on our wiki to track grants We also held a GOIF Meet Up where we planned our o…
Hey #edu106 I published a video on how to copy the Portfolio page inside @Glitch. During the final we will have 1.5 hours of hack time and 1/2 hour for demos. Pizza will be served. Donations appreciated.
Hey #edu106 I published a video on how to solve for descriptive statistics in Google forms http://jgregorymcverry.com/notes/2019-12-09-3 and here is video on making portfolio page in @glitch http://jgregorymcverry.com/notes/2019-12-09-3
Hey #edu106 I published a video on how to record your ignite talk. The next tutorial will demo how to add it to @Glitch http://jgregorymcverry.com/notes/2019-12-09-9
Your position is insulting. What value is provided by insulting fellow educators? Personally I don't give a damn what a chemist thinks about my field.... Look at the teaching crisis in #HigherEd maybe your friends could use some edu lessons.
Wondering where all that talk of nudge came from...like as in, "let's just nudge in some more grit with our rigor" @smarick does a nice history on the subject in this piece: https://americanmind.org/features/how-to-save-higher-education/dont-believe-the-states-higher-education-hype/ #HigherEd
A conference can not unconference. un means not, has as far back as our Proto-Indian-European languages...long time. Thus unconfernece means NOT Conference. It doesn't mean AND Conference
#smallpoems dragon drawn chariots chasing firefish in rivers of knowledge drawn from endless wells of ignorance. sewn together, stiched in time by an arrow piercing the eye of wayward gods wreathed, twisted in folds will the flesh of the hunt serve the sullied at a feast of the righteous? Can those who hear the Way on the river beating upon our shore a hundr
When students ask me for a list of assignments they are missing I will politely refuse, and ask them to go through syllabus and provide ME with the list, and offer to sit and make the list with them. Am I being unfair? harsh? #digped
Here's today's @scsu to do list. https://jgregorymcverry.com/todolist#20191127 Underestimated number of 🍅 required yesterday. three videos in one section and then the other section.
It has been 11 years..ELEVEN YEARS since we published this document in 2008 https://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/assets/docs/Websitedocs/nrc_digital%20publication_ad%20hoc%20resolution%20dec%202008.pdf and still haven't moved away from a members only model. We all need to call BS and walk away until things change.
I a way though building off of Maus, the X-Men got me ready, Knowing Magneto escaped the hell of the holocaust played so well against friendship with Professor X. When I was a kid graphic novel just meant a volume of monthlies #engsschat
Have you seen @sbotzakis blog...he reviews...ALLL. the graphic novels..prolly has a history category: http://graphicnovelresources.blogspot.com/ he does research too, just check google scholar
oooh look everyone it is #engsschat time, one of my favortie times of the month and we are talking graphic novels...Gonna do more listening...I don't know the cool titles for civics and history.