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Mirjam Glessmer

@mirjamglessmer.com
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Academic Developer at Lund University, focus on co-creation, trust, teaching for sustainability #KitchenOceanography enthusiast. She/her. Blog: MirjamGlessmer.com

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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 25/09/2026
Working on our thumbnails for youtube. What do you all think?
Two women smiling at each other and cheersing with cups, with the "teaching sustainability" and "Lund University" logos as the background, and the text "Teaching Sustainability: The MOOC" as heading
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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 19/07/2026
Our MOOC "Teaching Sustainability" comes with a facilitator guide for everybody who wants to use our materials to facilitate conversations in their own context, and now we even have a prototype of the pocket version! Things are coming along nicely! @teresethoni.bsky.social @mirjamglessmer.com
Photo of a booklet of a facilitator guide in front of a laptop screen. The laptop is sitting on a table with a tablecloth in butterfly pattern in a sunny garden
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Teemu Miettinen @potkukelkkacom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
From the dawn of BlueSky I’ve been waiting for a WordPress plug-in. Thank’s to @alexhedstrom.bsky.social there is now a PERFECT solution for this. Brilliant work.
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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 01/07/2026
Taking the "elevator pitch" literally and filming ours in the oldest (and prettiest) elevator we could find! With @teresethoni.bsky.social, @mirjamglessmer.com, Frank Schreier
Two people smiling into the camera, working with camera gear and tripods in front of a historic elevator
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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 18/06/2026
Some inspirational literature on the bookshelf in the background of our set: featured books are by @rmforsyth.bsky.social, @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social, @alasdair-skelton.bsky.social, @asv.bsky.social, and others. Follow us to be notified when the Teaching Sustainability MOOC launches!
A film studio set with a table and bookshelf filled with books, plants, a clip-on microphone
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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 18/06/2026
And it is a wrap! @teresethoni.bsky.social and @mirjamglessmer.com finished filming all the studio parts of the MOOC Teaching Sustainability! Thanks to Frank Schreier III for excellent production! Follow us to get notified when the MOOC launches!
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Teaching Sustainability @teachingsustainability.org · 16/06/2026
Filming for the MOOC in the studio in Helsingborg today!
Camera screens showing the film studio which is also visible in the background, set up with a table, a person sitting at the table, a shelf in the background set up with some books, plants, a SDG 4 sign. The ceiling is covered in scaffolding and studio lights, and there are lots of screens and other technical equipment around
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 04/05/2026
Best Monday morning: Arriving at my desk to find Catherine Denial's "Pedagogy of Kindness" AND Flower Darby's "Joyful Online Teacher" waiting for me! Don't know where to start!!
A photo of two books, Denial's "pedagogy of kindness" with colorful umbrellas on the cover, and Darby's "joyful online teacher" with soap bubbles on the cover, in front of a messy desk with a coffee mug, chargers, and two screens showing pictures of waves
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In case you missed it-- check out our Paper Skygest preprint! ⤵️
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 25/03/2026
The most exciting thing happened yesterday: Someone sent me a picture and asked me a question about an observation in a rotating tank, so I dropped everything else and HAD to investigate! Does anyone have any other ideas of what might be going on there? mirjamglessmer.com/2026/03/24/b...
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BABY I’M BACK! What are these weird cells in the rotating tank?
My friend Torge (who I had a super exciting rotating tank experiment project with, “Dry Theory 2 Juicy Reality”, check it out!), sent me the picture above and asked whether I had any idea what was…
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Join us for next week’s #LTHEchat which will explore “Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First” with @rmforsyth.bsky.social on Wednesday 1tth March 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/03/06/l...
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LTHEchat 357: Talking About GenAI in Higher Education As If Education Came First
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm GMT with guest Rachel Forsyth to discuss GenAI in higher education. In many conversations about generative AI in higher education, th…
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 10/02/2026
How do teachers build trust with students in the era of GenAI? @rmforsyth.bsky.social and I discuss findings of a recent series of focus group interviews with @niyamirandabond.bsky.social on @onehe.bsky.social . Watch the video and let us know what you think! onehe.org/resources/bu...
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 07/01/2026
Published! Lovingly called "How to #SoTL": "Developing a Scholarly Approach and Contributing to Conversations About Teaching and Learning" together with my colleagues Kjersti Daae, @oddfridf.bsky.social and @robertkordts.bsky.social at TOS #Oceanography. What do you think? doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
LTHEChat 347: Loneliness in Higher Education Join us on Bluesky with guest Bianca Fox (@bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 10th December 2025 at 20:00 GMT It is not uncommon at this time of the year to talk about loneliness. From an increased number of TV commercials encouraging us to…
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LTHEChat 347: Loneliness in Higher Education
Join us on Bluesky with guest Bianca Fox (@bianca-f-o-x.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 10th December 2025 at 20:00 GMT It is not uncommon at this time of the year to talk about loneliness. From an increased number of TV commercials encouraging us to remember those who are spending Christmas alone to numerous local events meant to bring people together, it feels like suddenly the entire world is refocusing on loneliness as if this were a feeling only associated with winter or Christmas.
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 03/12/2025
Quick #WaveWatching break away from my computer to investigate the crossing wakes
View out of a ferry window on the wake of another shipView over the stern of a ferry towards the horizon, with the ferry's wake crossing another ship's wake
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 13/11/2025
How do teachers build trust with students in the presence of GenAI? @rmforsyth.bsky.social and I did focus group interviews and have written up very first results in these conference proceedings: mirjamglessmer.com/2025/11/13/n...
A drawn image of two four-strand ropes being spliced together, bringing together "Trust me" and "I trust you" messages that teachers can send to students in the presence of GenAI
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Dana Bui @theeddesigner.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A4: A solid tribe. Find people that share your values and connect with them regularly. This gives strength in finding commonality but also finding different strategies to manage and facilitate the chaos. #LTHEchat
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It’s just less than an hour to go. To get your typing fingers ready :) Read the blog shorturl.at/sl6gb and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat. It’s that easy.
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LTHE Chat 343: How to teach for sustainability
Join us on Bluesky with guest Mirjam Glessmer (@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social) and Robert Kordts (@robertkordts.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT The title…
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat, which will explore how to teach for sustainability with @mirjamglessmer.com and @robertkordts.bsky.social on Wednesday, 8-9 pm GMT. Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/sl6gb
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LTHE Chat 343: How to teach for sustainability
Join us on Bluesky with guest Mirjam Glessmer (@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social) and Robert Kordts (@robertkordts.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT The title…
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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Currently reading Nooij et al. (2025) on “Do not leave your values at the door; the permissibility of activism in the lecture hall” @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/09/03/c...
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Currently reading Nooij et al. (2025) on "Do not leave your values at the door; the permissibility of activism in the lecture hall" - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
Academia and activism, how do they go together? I’ve been curious about that for a while, as evidenced by these posts. Today I came across an article that investigates not only academic activism, but ...
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 29/10/2025
A new issue of @njsteme.bsky.social is out, and my aswesome co-authors and I have three (!) papers in it! @robertkordts.bsky.social et al. write about student views on active learning in the geoscience curriculum (doi.org/10.5324/njst...)
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Student views on active learning in the Geoscience curriculum | Nordic Journal of STEM Education
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 31/05/2025
I loved this episode! Here are some of my thoughts on it: mirjamglessmer.com/2025/05/31/e...
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Exploring the UDL 3.0 version, inspired by an episode on the Tea for Teaching podcast - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
It took me a while to appreciate the UDL* framework since I first started looking into it 3 years ago. Without context, it seemed overwhelming in the amount of details that we are supposed to consider...
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 02/04/2025
..including at least 2 articles to check out, probably more: Månefjord et al. "Mind the Gender Gap: Implicit bias in STEM education" doi.org/10.5324/njst..., and Costello, Hammarlund et al. "STEM students prefer assessment practices known to reduce the impact of test anxiety" doi.org/10.5324/njst...
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
buy it, read it, share it, teach it ❤️
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 25/03/2025
Excited to see the Nordic Journal of STEM Education @njsteme.bsky.social here! Scholarly, peer-reviewed, open-access in the broad field of educational research and development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics higher education -- totally worth a follow! :)
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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Currently reading: Tai et al. (2022) on “Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design” @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/03/12/c...
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Currently reading: Tai et al. (2022) on "Assessment for inclusion: rethinking contemporary strategies in assessment design" - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
I just read this really interesting and important article about “assessment for inclusion, which seeks to ensure diverse students are not disadvantaged through assessment practices” by Tai et al. (202...
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 25/02/2025
I feel like "generous scholarship" is the best compliment anyone can give me regarding my work. That is what I strive for! And it is definitely what I see and hugely appreciate in @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social & colleagues' MOOC, too!
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Manu 🌊🐋 @manelcamacho.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This reminds me of someone btw! You should check her science stuff 👇 😉!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Stine Eckert @stineeckert.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Es werden immer mehr. Schon über 3,300 Unterschriften -- 1000 mehr seit ich gestern geschaut hatte. Das geht rasch. Please keep the momentum going and share! #btw25 #whereismyballot #jedestimmezaehlt #germany #election #wahlen #vote #democracy #demokratie www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...
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Wahlrecht für Deutsche im Ausland sichern: Keine Stimme darf verloren gehen! - Online-Petition
Alle deutschen Staatsangehörige sollten ihr Wahlrecht ausüben können! Jetzt handeln! Problem: Viele deutsche Staatsangehörige im Ausland können ihr Grundrecht auf Teilnahme an der Bundestagswahl fakti...
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 20/02/2025
“Teachers should be allowed to be learners”! Currently reading Lidgren et al. (2006) What are the barriers to including sustainability into courses and curricula at Lund University? Lidgren, Rodhe and Huisingh (2006) start from the premise that universities have an important role to play, "the…
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“Teachers should be allowed to be learners”! Currently reading Lidgren et al. (2006)
What are the barriers to including sustainability into courses and curricula at Lund University? Lidgren, Rodhe and Huisingh (2006) start from the premise that universities have an important role to play, "the state of the world is not the work of ignorant people, but rather the opposite, the result of work made by people with ". But after a strong start towards environmental responsibility and sustainability, by 2004 they report that Lund University has fallen into a bit of a slump, where for example the university president's excuse for not meeting environmental goals is that the goals were too ambitious in the first place.
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hescholar.bsky.social @hescholar.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Well that was quick! Mirjam Glessmer blogs about reflective practice and the eight new principles. Ice watching and thinking about reflections - in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)'s article - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/17/i... @herdjournal.bsky.social
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Ice watching and thinking about reflections - in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)'s article - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
Climbing the steps out of the water after an ice dip lets me see the world from a different perspective. Instead of focussing on not slipping and on controlling my breath on the way down, on the way u...
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"However, if there are two or more options for engaging with learning material, then it is best to select the tool that will yield the best results. As we’ve seen, that tool will rarely be digital in nature." substack.com/home/post/p-...
excerpt from the link posted that focuses on statistics around student distraction with technology
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Vi är 163 universitetsanställda som ställer sig bakom studenters krav att påskynda förändringen av högre utbildning så att studenterna som medborgare och i sina framtida yrkesliv ska kunna bidra till en samhällsomställning för hållbarhet. www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/bm6...
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Gör studenter redo att bidra i omställningen
163 universitetsanställda: Vi kräver förändring av högre utbildningar
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 01/02/2025
Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities” My most loyal guest poster strikes again! Welcome Kirsty Dunnett, today writing about Galløe (2023)'s chapter on how emotions differentiate opportunities.
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Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities”
My most loyal guest poster strikes again! Welcome Kirsty Dunnett, today writing about Galløe (2023)'s chapter on how emotions differentiate opportunities.
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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If I'm reading the abstract right, "We tried having GenAI help us better understand info from our surveys/interviews. GenAI responses looked right, but they actually weren't, and it's impossible to know why. We don't recommend trusting it for these types of things." #AIinEducation #EduSkyAI
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.
Because it was written during active wartime, the book includes various suggestions for causing physical violence and destruction, such as starting fires, flooding warehouses, breaking tools, etc. But it also includes many suggestions for how to just generally be annoying within a bureaucracy or office setting. Simple sabotage ideas include:
• "Insist on doing everything through 'channels.' Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions."
• "Make 'speeches.' Talk as frequently as possible and at great length.
Illustrate your 'points' by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate 'patriotic' comments."
• "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible."
• "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
• "Misunderstand' orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can."
• "In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines."
• "To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers;
complain unjustly about their work."
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 29/01/2025
“Superficially Plausible Outputs from a Black Box: Problematising GenAI Tools for Analysing Qualitative SoTL Data” by @rmforsyth.bsky.social and myself published today: doi.org/10.20343/tea...
A figure summarizing an analysed data set (Glessmer, Persson & Forsyth, 2024) with an arrow going into a black box simbolising GenAI, and out again to a blurred figure that looks very similar to the first one, with text describing the main message of the paper: Results of analysing qualitative SoTL data with GenAI look superficially plausible, but are not reproducible, incomplete, different from our consensus coding, misinterpretations of data, extrapolations of data and context, and not reflecting the instructions
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 28/01/2025
Thanks Katharine, this is a fab example of individual action leading to community engagement & hopefully change! You might also like this piece I just wrote exploring why we need to move away from personal 'blame' and work together to hold companies to account: theconversation.com/you-dont-hav...
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You don’t have to be a net zero hero – how focus on personal climate action can distract from systemic problems
Shifting the blame for the climate crisis onto individuals hides the larger issue. True progress demands systemic accountability from governments and corporations.
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 23/01/2025
Developing "principles for quality education" to guide course development. Where does one even start?
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Developing “principles for quality education” to guide course development. Where does one even start?
I've been feeling inspired by Karolinska Institutet's "Principles for Quality Education", and I would like to develop something similar for my own work, and the group I work in. I think it is important for me and us to articulate what we believe is good education, mainly so we figure that out for ourselves, but also so we ourselves, as well as people who are considering approaching us, know what we stand for.
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 20/01/2025
The process is the point. I picked up my copy of Venet (2024)'s "Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice at School" this morning and I loved the book before I even started reading the introduction, because one sentence in the acknowledgements (that I was going to skip) caught my eye:…
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The process is the point.
I picked up my copy of Venet (2024)'s "Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice at School" this morning and I loved the book before I even started reading the introduction, because one sentence in the acknowledgements (that I was going to skip) caught my eye: "writing from bed is a time-honored [...] way of being an activist and cultural worker".
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Kyle Bartlett @kyletheresearcher.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I've found it helpful to think about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in five forms: with, for, in, about, and through sustainable development. This framework makes ESD less abstract and more actionable, offering practical ways to embed sustainability into music education. #ESD #MusicEd
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Ultimately, I hope folks can stop equating social media with the totality of someone’s work and beliefs. This assumption can lead to a lot of despair, and the false sense that the work isn’t happening and people don’t care (see also: climate). We all use these spaces differently.
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Mirjam Glessmer @mirjamglessmer.com · 02/01/2025
Trust is key for learning. In an interview study which we combined with 449 free-text responses to a survey, we found that "Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond". Read more in Glessmer, Persson, Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social (2024): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Visual summary of the student responses to the prompt "think of teachers that you trust. Please give an example of what they do that makes you trust them": Out of 449 responses, about 2/3rds mention something related to affect or cognition, but the cognition responses are about 3/4 about teaching skill and only 1/4 about subject knowledge. Values are mentioned by about 1/3rd of the responses
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
"Ich kann Politikerinnen und Politikern nichts mehr beibringen. Die wissen alles. Da gibt es keinen Beratungsbedarf mehr. Sie handeln wider besseren Wissens" sagt Klimaforscher Mojib Latif zum Ende diesen Jahres. Das sollte uns allen eine Mahnung sein.
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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just out: Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond doi.org/10.1080/1360... with @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social and Peter Persson
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Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond
Trust is an important aspect of learning. However, there is little published research on how students perceive its value. In this article, we report on engineering students’ perceptions of the role...
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Jacob Wenegrat @roguewave.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Tis' the season for making paper oceanography globes! 🌊 via Barry Klinger mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/Se...
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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I don't want to 'like' this - but you are not alone. And it's something every teacher at every level can address. When asked for a 'top tip' for new teachers I always say "look as if you want to be there". And the first action for an educational challenge is ALWAYS to ask your students.
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Burr Ito @ututuy.org · 30/11/2024
A flower made of von Kármán vortices. This is a motorized lazy Susan filled with a rheoscopic solution. It’s only about 1cm deep and the pencil serves as the stationary obstacle. #Physics #FluidDynamics #DIYnamics 🧪
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