teaching

  • Prompting Learners

    I’ve had a project idea on the back burner for some time for an in-class module centered around a Socratic dialogue. The idea is that a student volunteer would interact with me as I delivered the lesson (I had the mechanism of second order nucleophilic substitution in mind). I want to turn a passive lecture…

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  • Life isn’t fair, is it? No one consulted us teachers and educators before launching these large language models that would effectively break many parts of education as we know it. And now it’s our responsibility to fix things, to rebuild and rethink, because no one else could do a good job of it. So, where…

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  • At the time of this writing, in 2025, it has been a little over a decade since legislative programs started popping up in various states to promote STEAM education. “STEAM’, the incorporation of arts into ‘STEM’ (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics), was as much an admission as a new concept. It was an admission that something…

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