#Student

1. I went to university on a combination of scholarships and part- & full-time work. I was fortunate enough not to have to take out student loans, & in retrospect
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Rahmaan Mohammadi was reported to Prevent by his teachers and investigated by counter-terrorism officers when aged 14 for wearing a Free Palestine badge to school. It is not antisemitic to
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So I am reliably informed from various sources that at a meeting of Michelle Donelan’s higher education task force this week, the issue of the “rule of six” and the
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#ThreadYou wonder why many of our youths still can’t express themselves, think critically or lacks common sense? Boys: A student will be going to school & also doing Yahoo. Trust
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Thoughts on “ungrading.” Fall 2020 was the first term in which I conducted all of my courses without grades. I saw visible, inspiring student successes and I’m not going back
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This thread will be on universal design (UD) in the classroom. I'm not calling this UDL because that framing supposes that instructors are abled and only students have disabilities. Consideration
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You can turn failure into extreme success. Some favorite stories of mine This writer was told "We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias". His
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because my school is closed today and I am teaching third graders remotely. Some challenges I don’t think can simply be “improved” about remote learning: 1. A student is in
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ㅤ ╭ 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
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I just wanted to note for posterity: I have altered my project, this involved extra reading, reapplying for ethical approval, re-recruitment. I was due to start data collection in April
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Offers, courses being full etc. A lil thread. Notwithstanding some legal disagreement over whether the same judgement works be reached today the settled view is that students who meet their
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Day 2 of virtual learning showed me how important being able to have short f2f conversations more frequently can be with videoconferencing. Our schedule each class period is:-30 mins synchronous
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If Donald Trump cared about helping Americans, he would have demanded @SenateMajLdr McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago. These legally
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The costs of applying to an econ PhD are INSANE. It would have been difficult for me if I hadn’t been working full time when applying. See Anna’s thread/responses for
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All our @UoBrisSPS peeps are SOooo ready to catch up on rest and family time. I'm lucky and honoured to work in such an amazing team. But I sadly reflect
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I found this Facebook memory today & thought I would share. Would have been my first independent paper as a PhD student. It didn't get accepted until 2010 for a
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