Andrew Robinson
Inclusive Teaching
I've been invited to be on an expert panel on accessibility. The Paul Menton Centre (which deals with student equity accommodations at...
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PRECARIOUS PHYSICIST
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What I Learned From Online Pandemic Teaching
I wrote a short entry on the Carleton University Reddit page, and also on Twitter. Here's a slightly longer version. From my experience...
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Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends
So, here we are, back for a second semester of emergency online teaching, during a pandemic. And it's difficult. Very difficult. This...
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Changing to Online Teaching
The modifications of my regular classes for Online Pandemic Teaching. I had a firm design principle never to increase workload by moving...
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Stress, Anxiety and Education
I read the Carleton U Reddit a few days ago, and there were lots of obviously distressed students posting about the difficulty of...
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Teaching Philosophy
I was applying for a teaching award last week, and they always want a teaching philosophy statement. Mine has changed over my years of...
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Reflections
My First Online Course My first online course has now finished. It was an algebra -based Introductory Physics course, taken by 200...
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The Educational Value of Statues: In This Case None Whatsoever
I was a student at Bristol University many years ago now. The slave trade was not mentioned at all. Colston was the name on the Colston...
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The Charging Rhinoceros
When teaching introductory physics to non-specialists, I always try to use examples from subjects that might interest them. In my...
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The Whiteboard Recording
Sometimes, we might want to sketch out a solution, and a picture is worth a thousand words. Explaining technical details over email can...
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Doing Something With Lectures
Recording Lectures for Asynchronous Delivery Why record it? Asynchronous Delivery Closed Captioning/Transcripts for Accessibility...
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What Are We Working With?
The second thrilling installment of "Precarious Physicist: The Perils of the Pandemic". Let’s now look at the design process for the...
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All Change: Reconfiguring your teaching during a Pandemic:
Here are a few thoughts about changing your teaching during the Pandemic crisis. It's by no means exhaustive, and I've obviously been...
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Online Teaching: The Second Week
So here are a few thoughts about teaching my Physics 1007 course completely online. Student interaction by email, forum discussion and in...
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Be Kind
It's extremely likely that if you are teaching, then one or more of your students has been affected by the coronavirus in some way. They...
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The New Precarious Physics website will be here soon
This is where I will be publishing opinions on science education. #education;#physics
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ANDREW ROBINSON
I am a Contract Instructor at Carleton University, sited on the the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin nation. I teach Physics to undergraduates in Science and Engineering. I do not have a permanent job, hence the "Precarious".
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You can find me on Twitter as @AndrewR_physics
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