… most of time correct citation seems more like a hindrance than a necessary, more like a reverence to seniority than a real acknowledgement of novelty. […]

How an image can be worth thousand words!

Earlier in September I read an article in Inside Higher Ed on this problematic of active learning versus lecture. I loved it and found the conclusion of the article very interesting, but as I am always skeptical of what is reported from a scientific article I decided to go ahead and read the paper myself …

I had a great time last week during the STEM Day on Wake Tech Northern Campus and I thought I’d quickly share with you all the pictures from that day (thanks a bunch to the photographer, Stephanie Rollins).

Earlier this month Dr. Maria Fadri organized a stream clean-up on the Northern Campus. I used the opportunity to enroll some of my BIO 111 General Biology students and lo and behold seven showed up!

My lovely wife graduated with a PhD, Zoe (undergraduate in the lab) graduate with a bachelor, and I got a teaching award!

I came across a really interesting Tomorrow’s professor email list article before the midterm this semester and decided to give it a shot.

Although the failure-frustration cycle is pervasive, students need not fall prey to the vicious cycle since instructors can act both proactively as well as while students struggle with the failure-frustration cycle to prevent or simply break the cycle. Let us see how.

In the last couple of weeks I’ve done a lot of thinking about learning strategies and mindsets. I’ve been aware of the two main mindsets detailed in the picture above for a while (Fixed VS Growth), but I’ve never really connected this information with students’ attitude after exams or simply in class …

SICB conference follow up thoughts