Connect: p68 "our minds pick up a lot of what's out there, & it seems nearly impossible to resist the pull towards culturally rooted stereotypes." For example, society associates STEM careers with men. Only 30% of STEM characters on tv & in movies are women. #T3Learns #blindspot
I’m proud to have portrayed a #womaninSTEM and strive to be a role model for young women to become future scientists.
Women make up ONLY 30% of STEM characters on the screen. My friends at The @GDIGM want to change this because, as Geena says, “If she can SEE it, she can BE it.”
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Quote part 1 of 2 p70 "what can the IAT do...bring the dissonance between reflective & automatic preferences into conscious awareness." #T3Learns #slowchat #blindspot
Quote part 2 of 2 p70 "From there it is at least partly up to each individual to use that knowledge to move beyond dismay & to find ways to understand hidden bias & to naturalize them before they translate into behavior" #T3Learns #slowchat #blindspot
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Quote: Pg 61 "We don't have the expectation that we ought to be aware of the working of all of our bodily functions, but we do believe that we have -or should have- superior access to the stuff inside our minds." #T3Learns #Slowchat #Blindspot
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Challenge: I think the hardest part for many people is cognitive dissonance. They may believe one thing but when presented with evidence that goes against what they may believe - will they be willing to make a change? #slowchat #T3Learns #blindspot
I took several of the IATs & my automatic preferences revealed some hidden bias. Hoping now I am aware of my bais I can use this uncomfortable new knowledge to improve interactions w my students & people in general. Will you use the link below to try some of the tests? #T3Learns
Challenge: Consider other implicit association tests. How can this knowledge make me a better person? A better teacher? implicit.harvard.edu/implici… #T3Learns #SlowChat
"The mind is an automatic association-making machine...unthinkingly we share that association as we remember the past...such a memory error is called a false alarm-we mistakenly remember something that did not occur" page 9 #T3Learns #Blindspot #slowchat
Monday - Phrase: Share a quote that is meaningful, engaging, or thought provoking to you. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Book by Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji #T3Learns #SlowChat #iTeachMath
Algebra 1 students used a heart rate monitor hooked to @TICalculators to graph their heart rate. Then we found the domain & range of our graphs. The librarian @AmberReadsALot even came & let us teach her how to find the domain & range of her heart rate!
T3 Gulf Coast Professional Development Summit...saving pets from hot cars(& planes) by building a pet car alarm programmed by our @TICalculators &#TIInnovator hubs! The greenhouse effect can make a car unsafe even when its only 65°F!
Learning to code on the @TICalculators #TIInnovator hub at T3 Gulf Coast Professional Development Summit.
We have light!
We have color!
Next is sound!
Thanks @afisherteach @ccsrygle for the fun session!
Earned our @TICalculators #TIInnovator Rover licenses! Love to see the Ss unpack their thinking. Some guess & check, others measure everything & plan on paper first, one programmed all the directions (forward/backward/left/right) then went back & added the measurements.
So a student gave me this today...it's one of those treasures I will look back at on trying days. I love my job!
I had drawers full of games&puzzles in my class for yrs but it was hard to get Ss interested. This yr I added a puzzle board & created puzzle bingo where Ss get credit for completing puzzles/games. They love it! A favorite are the puzzles I post on my door. Thnks @mathequalslove
We had a busy 3 day week before the rain canceled school...
Slope Battles in Algebra Lab, Algebraic Transformations Quick Poll in Algebra 2, started earning our Rover driver's license in Engineering.
Algebra 2 students used CBR motion detectors & @TICalculators to graph paths of balls.
S1: why did the parabola from 2 balls open up & from 1 ball open down?
S2: it opens down b/c you dropped the ball before I pressed start so it caught the ball on the bounce back up then down
I love our librarian @AmberReadsALot ! She puts out a different maker space activity each month in the library...this month it's a Breaker Space!




















