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Despite Challenges, Here’s Why These Black Women Educators Stay in the Classroom

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Despite the risk of negative consequences for showing up unapologetically and authentically, several research participants expressed that being a teacher is their calling, their purpose and their joy. In fact, throughout this series, you’ll hear from participants who’ll tell their own stories.

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? That is a research and methodology question we have to discuss.”

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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2018) Purdy’s “Transforming the Elite” shines a light on a lesser-discussed part of America’s history of segregation — private schools. The University of North Carolina Press “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” by Michelle Purdy, Ph.D. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D. Du Bois, Ph.D.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

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I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. The asynchronous discussion gives students a chance to practice these skills independently, while learning from each other’s examples.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

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I began to monitor participation patterns and made adjustments to the courses to include more and varied opportunities for engagement. My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. However, a connection can also take another shape.

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Learning by Working Together: Developing and Checking for Group Integration Across Diverse Disciplinary Cohorts

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Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object. A live or synchronous approach might involve a collaborative round table role-playing session with multiple participants addressing the same issue.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. The asynchronous discussion gives students a chance to practice these skills independently, while learning from each other’s examples.

Teaching 111