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A Careful Assessment of a Lego Complement Activity

I started watching poster presentations from ASMCUE 2022. The first one with a video recording was entitled “Piecing Complement Together with LEGO bricks: Impacts on Interest, Confidence, and Learning in the Immunology Classroom,” presented by Joshua Baty, Suzanne Bohlson, Mallary Greenlee-Wacker, and Heather Bruns. Their research question was: does use of a 3D model help […]
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Preparing Scientific Bloggers?

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew entitled “Microbrew. Blogging about biotechnology: Replacing the term paper with an accessible writing style assignment.” Chadene Tremaglio and Michelle Kraczkowski, assistant professors at the University of Saint Joseph in CT were the presenters. Their attendee learning objective was to “gain a framework for a new project/paper assignment to […]
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Microbiology and Public Health across Languages

The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Microbrew. Empathetically Engaging With Our Community Through A Service Learning Project.” Pete Chandrangsu, an assistant professor at Scripps College, and Jessie Lee Mills, an assistant professor at Pomona College, were the presenters. They collaborated with the Latino & Latina Roundtable and Pitzer College. Chandrangsu teaches […]
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SciComm Projects and CLIPS

Jaclyn A. Madden, Associate Professor at Hartford Community College, was the speaker at ASMCUE 2022 for the microbrew entitled “Undergraduates as Science Communicators: How to Engage Students in SciComm.” Jackie Madden teaches biotechnology. Madden defined “SciComm” as how scientists explain science to non-scientists. Effective SciComm requires letting go of technical jargon and benefits students as […]
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Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 Microbrew: Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Discussion in Introductory Biology. This session was a twenty-four-minute live session, and I watched the recording. The presenter was Dr. Candice Idlebird from Harris-State University, an Assistant Professor. The abstract cited guidance for making biology classrooms more inclusive including the Drewsbury & […]
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The Right to be Persuaded

I continue to watch ASMCUE 2022 sessions even though my eye hurts today! I watched a couple of sessions from BIT instructors, and now found Heather Townsend’s recorded session entitled “Fostering Scientific Literacy through the Identification of Credible Sources.” Townsend is a good friend, and we have worked together for a couple of years now. […]
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Enhancing STEM Literacy in Courses

Emily Ledgerwood (Le Moyne College) and Jonelle Mattiacio (St. John Fisher College) presented at ASMCUE 2022 a recorded session entitled: “A Multi-Lesson Approach to Enhancing Literacy in the Field of Virology.” The lesson focused on Mattiacio’s virology course. They introduced students in the first phase to scientific communication and exploration of primary research Groups were […]
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Lessons from an Exchange of UDL Knowledge

David Evans is from the Sydney School of Education at the University of Sydney and along with Elga Andriana presented at the CAST UDL Symposium 2022. The recorded fifteen minute session was entitled “Building Teacher Capacity Applying the UDL UDL Framework: Stories from Indonesia.” Evans spoke about advances in the use of technology in education. […]
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Open Pedagogy and UDL

Tonight I watched Carolee Clyne and Surita Jhangiani present at the CAST UDL Symposium on “Open Pedagogy and UDL: The Next Steps.” Drs. Jhangiani and Clyne have decades of experience working with instructors on UDL at UBC Vancouver Point Grey Campus. They began by explaining what are open educational resources as “teaching, learning and research […]
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UDL in Middle School Math Classrooms

Sandhya Raman was the next speaker I watched. The title of the CAST UDL Symposium presentation is “Universal Design For Learning (UDL) in Mathematics Classrooms: A Catalyst to Activate Diverse Learners,” and they shared their slides. Raman is a middle school teacher in California. Raman presented using GoogleSlides and live captions… I always forget to […]
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