Tootfinder

My office right now.
A reasonable person could be forgiven for thinking I'm a kindergarten teacher, and not preparing materials for a college introduction to programming course.
(Let me know if you're interested in what those activities are...)
(And also a Foundations of AI course, but first, the intro course.)
#teaching

Today I had my first class of the year. I was expecting protests when I told them we would be all analogue most of the time and why. They were kind of excited about it. #teaching

I wrote this function to do some math, and I got it working, tested it, but now I have to explain it to someone and...
Well, that's the difficult part!
I knew the input and desired output and built up how to get what I needed but making it explainable is a bit of a challenge...
Which is good though, as it's forcing me to double-check my work.
(And I am *not* good at math!)
#teaching

It’s going to be weird to just go all-in on paper for classes again. At first I went all-digital for both pragmatic (digital tools for those with reading difficulties, can’t throw away your digital copy) and environmental reasons (no more printing), but now I’m going back for didactic (LLM) and environmental reasons (LLM). Sigh. #teaching

In case useful for teachers starting the semester, my blog has gratuitous advice on lab notebooks, conference posters, oral presentations, lab write-ups, and plagiarism. Pitched for undergraduates but hopefully useful for all ages. #conferences #posters #academics #teaching #college #plagiarism #education #teachers #blog #school #biology #science #undergraduate https://colinpurrington.com/