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I posted ten questions I've been considering throughout #MYFest22 on a Twitter thread recently: https://twitter.com/RissaChem/status/1539929596459569152?s=20&t=4MFfoC3jgHEmnPUQV5O7MA The complete list of questions is: How do we upend the norms of education such that we can embrace a communal vision that foregrounds intentionally equitable hospitality in open & emancipatory ways?What barriers (real & imagined) stand in our ways … Continue reading #MYFest22: On Questions and Ungrading Equity
I'm super excited to be involved in something called #MYFest22 (Mid-year festival) this June, July and August. It is a choose-your-own-adventure festival of virtual professional development that is trying to build an emergent, creative, caring community that embodies the ethos of intentionally equitable hospitality. The #MYFest22 organizers (full disclosure: I am one) are folks I … Continue reading #MYFest22: An Introduction
<This post will eventually be posted on ChemEdX as well.> I’ve been an ACS Councilor for a grand total of two and a half months. And I’ve probably received at least 50 emails, been to two pre-conference (conference = National Meeting) meetings, and read something close to 200 pages of documentation. This time commitment has … Continue reading Dispatches from the Mothership: One New Councilor’s Adventures in ACS Governance (March 17, 2021)
I was recently asked to be a part of the "Challenging our strategies and expectations: What students learn, why, and how" panel on Friday, November 13th, 2020 at the Imagining the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education symposium hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and co-hosted/funded by the National Science Foundation. I … Continue reading My written comments for the #STEMFuturesHigherEd Symposium (hosted by NASEM)
Ghost Post Day 6 (https://stem.dpl.online/day-6-2/) “Life is meant to be a never-ending education, and when this is fully appreciated, we are no longer survivors but adventurers.” (David McNally, Even Eagles Need a Push) At last we have reached the end of our track. Today is the day we focus on self-care because in order to do this … Continue reading DPL 2020 #STEMDigPed Day 6 (Self-Care)
Ghost Post Day 5 (https://stem.dpl.online/day-5-2/) What outspoken advocate for the well-being of people of color and other minoritized people in STEM hasn’t been told some version of, “It’d be easier to hear your message if it was more pleasant to listen to”? The people making these kinds of comments always think they are saying something … Continue reading DPL 2020 #STEMDigPed Day 5 (Critical Pedagogy in Labs)
Ghost Post Day 4 (https://stem.dpl.online/day-4-2/) The classroom, with all of its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways … Continue reading DPL 2020#STEMDigPed Day 4 (Open Pedagogy and Open Science)
Ghost Post Day 3 (https://stem.dpl.online/day-3-2/) “Education...is the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” (Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed) Design is key to our collective liberation, but most design processes today reproduce inequalities that are structured … Continue reading DPL 2020 #STEMDigPed Day 3 (Social Justice, Equity, and Decolonialism)
Ghost Post Day 2 (https://stem.dpl.online/day-2-2/) Embracing praxis, and understanding that it's carried out most effectively through the choices we make and actions we undertake on an everyday basis, helps us sustain ourselves even at times that seem to militate against hope...The real work in higher education is done student by student, classroom by classroom, course … Continue reading DPL 2020 #STEMDigPed Day 2 (Critical Digital Pedagogy in STEM-H)
Ghost Post Day 0 (https://stem.dpl.online/day-0/) We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding (V, 239-242)) Welcome y'all to the STEM-H and Critical Digital Pedagogy track at DPL 2020! Let's start out … Continue reading DPL 2020 #STEMDigPed Day 0 (Orientation)