The A&P Professor

Getting your syllabus ready? Putting off getting your syllabus ready? If you answered YES to either of these questions, here's a classic (and still popular) episode to help you take a break from having to work on your #syllabus.
theapprofessor.org/podcast-epi

Carwil Bjork-James

As it's syllabus writing season again, here's my informed take on why students should *not* use large language models for social science writing.

I took the time to try prompt engineering in response to my own assignments, and it led nowhere good.

woborders.blog/2023/08/23/why-

#LLM #academic #teaching #syllabus

Why I’m banning AI-generated text from my indigenous rights course

Okay, so I did the research and thought about it. This…

Carwil without Borders
scholar_farmer

Braggy braggy moment: I have put together syllabi for fall, and there's still a week before my first class!

Am drinking beer and watching a movie to celebrate. It has been a haaaaaaard five days. But I'm especially pleased for my sophomore class, which makes MUCH more sense than my first time through it. And it has almost 100% different repertoire. Go figure.

#syllabus #MusicHistory #ClassPrep

R. L. Dane :Debian:

Thinking out loud here... (gonna cc: my #ADHD friends... I mean, just with the hashtag itself)

I was thinking today about how life just zooms into oblivion at warp speed after college, and how there was one thing that kept the pace of time manageable while I was still in college (even in my 40s): the #syllabus (and assignments).

I actually had one grad class where my grade in class was creating my own syllabus (well, my own curriculum, I guess) for a hypothetical class of my own creation, and I was amazed at how difficult and time-consuming it was.

I was thinking that I'd feel more accomplished in life, and would feel the time waste away less if I made a syllabus for myself, for my recreation activities (read: farting around on my laptops -- in a purposeful way).

Right now, I'm concentrating on two things: I really want to learn #FreeCAD to design my own objects for #3DPrinting, and I'd like to (finally) learn #uxn.

B Haas

Hey folks in #HigherEd in the US: if you’re making a #syllabus for this fall, plan for flexibility in early November. The week around the election is likely to be very stressful. Be kind to yourself and your students!

Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

Very excited by my new graduate course which will make use of a surfeit of new English language books dealing with Seediq history and culture and the Musha Incident 霧社事件 in particular. I think it will be a lot of fun to teach and exciting for the students as well.

#Taiwan #Indigenous #History #syllabus

kerim.oxus.net/%E9%8A%80%E5%B9

bs2

The #syllabus in _Utopia of Rules_, Sakai Takashi, translator of #DavidGraeber's #BullshitJobs , drew my attention to organizational charts comparing #UniversityStyles . The charts and the translator's comments seem worthy of attention so I re-worked them in Racket's pict language. It took me hours, but kept me focussed and got me to make visual commentary, and to wonder Where are the students? Inclusion could strengthen resistance?
^1 1101.com/n/s/bullshit_job/2021
^2 gendai.media/articles/-/75577?

#酒井隆史

bs2

Managerial v. Traditional from #DavidGraeber's #BullshitJobs. On-line pages with the Japanese translator clued me
> ..to print an exam, or upload a #syllabus , in.. a contemporary managerial university.. (where all course materials have to be in a uniform format), as compared with .. traditional..
> The critical thing about this diagram is that each of those additional lines represents an action that has to be performed, not by a computer, but by an actual human being.
#Bureaucracy #OverHead

Limb Lab

FWIW, the #syllabus for my #Statistics and #Research #Methods course, with links to most materials

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

Students use #spreadsheets (which my students don't know how to use but need to learn), to actively model and understand stats concepts and calculations.

Focus is on stats, but in the broader context of scientific reasoning and quantitative research methods.

Example problems are geared towards #Kinesiology and #biology.

@edutooters @academicchatter #introduction

KINE_303-Syllabus-2023-Fall_PUB

DESCRIPTION Fall 2023,KINE 303: Statistics and Research…

docs.google.com
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

What's a favorite course syllabi policy?

One of mine: Due Diligence (5% of final grade)

"...entails being familiar with relevant course materials before asking the instructor about it. For example, you should read the syllabus before asking about grading and do the reading, complete [homework], make notes, etc. before ...office hours ...."

Students score EXTRA due diligence points if they do *my* due diligence (e.g., showing me a typo on my #syllabus).

#teaching #HigherEd #incentives