Reflections

Teaching Microbiology and Climate Change: Lessons from ASM Microbe 2023

Tonight I watched JMBE Live! at ASM Microbe 2023. Stanley Maloy interviewed Kelly Ramirez, Zachary Freeman, and Arpita Bose. Ramirez spoke about bringing excitement about microbiology to students and courses early on! Freeman shared how they started Schoolyard Microbiology and how they collect soils from participants and learn about their microbiomes. Bose had an interest […]
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Exploring Student Knowledge in Biofilm Development

Drs. Sharleen Flowers and Stephanie Gardner presented at JMBE Live! on September 29, 2023. Rachel Horak moderated the session. The title of the session was “Here Is the Biology, Now What is the Mechanism? Investigating Biology Undergraduates’ Mechanistic Reasoning within the Context of Biofilm Development.” Gardner spoke about the challenges of understanding complex biological systems. […]
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Improving Microbiology Education: Lessons from the MCI Implementation

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live! session. Danielle Condry spoke about the Microbiology Concept Inventory and how they applied it. Jonathan Nguyen joined Condry. They explained the concept inventory used as a two-tiered questionnaire with questions and an opportunity for learners to share their reasoning. Concept inventories are focused, Condry noted, and began with the […]
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Revamping the Central Dogma: Teaching with Chromogenic Proteins

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live session with Greg Phillips from the University of Georgia and Nancy Boury from Iowa State University. Stanley Maloy, Editor in Chief of JMBE, was the moderator. Maloy spoke about how this Curriculum article revisits the Central Dogma. Boury and Phillips were together for several years at Iowa State. The […]
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Benefits of CUREs on Scientific Identity in Undergraduates

I am happy to have found the JMBE YouTube playlist I had forgotten about! Tonight I watched the session on “CURES increase students’ scientific self-efficacy, scientific identity, and self-assessed skills.” Grace Borlee and Carolina Mehaffy were the guests, and the session was moderated by Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-chief. Mehaffy is at Colorado State University along […]
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Innovative Assessment Strategies Using Chatbots

Tonight I started watching some of the JMBE Live sessions I missed. This session was from May 17, 2024 and Greg Crowther and Thomas Knight shared their paper. Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-Chief, facilitated the session. Knight started by defining higher and lower-order cognitive skills (HOCS and LOCS). Knight defined lower-order cognitive skills from Bloom’s levels […]
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AI Empowered Instructional Design Insights

Tonight I watched the QM session “The AI Empowered Instructional Designer.” Steve Kaufman form the University of Akron was the presenter. They shared a GoogleDoc at bit.ly/ai-empowered-id Kaufman spoke about DeepSeek as a disruptor in the AI industry. Kaufman also emphasized using AI to make us all more connected and literate. Several examples in the […]
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Understanding Regular and Substantive Interaction in Course Design

QM has provided several wonderful webinars and ideas for me to consider. Tonight I watched the recording for the session “Incorporating Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) into Course Design and Delivery.” Jenny Davis from the University of Cincinnati presented an interactive session. Davis explained that in July of 2021, the US Department of Education defined […]
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