Weekly yaps from a millennial academic.
Welcome to my personal blog! My name is Jessica and I’m a teacher, researcher and lifelong learner. I share my notes on research, work, and teaching.
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I Disagree! How Healthy Classroom Conflicts Build Critical Thinking and Research Skills
In my first year of teaching back in 2016, I had the privilege of handling senior high school students in the course Practical Research 1. Looking back, it was probably not the most ideal situation: a new teacher with a brand-new curriculum; but my students eventually did well so all is well! Anyway, since there…
Correlation Is Not Causation: A Lesson in Evidence and Empathy
Yesterday was my first in-person class after a year of doing predominantly online classes. Partly because of the materials I am developing for a course, and the other part because I was mostly ‘away’ due to my responsibilities as an administrator (which is a whole story for another day). So to celebrate my own ‘return’…
Searching for “the one” for your research topic
One of my biggest mistakes last term in doctoral school was rushing into a topic for my research paper. While I ended up getting a 4.0 for that paper and still managed to publish it in a reputable conference, I learned some lessons and realized I could have done better. Both as a teacher and…
15 things I look forward to as I turn 15×2
So today I turned 30. While it would be great to look back and reflect on the past like things I have learned, I thought it would be better to dump all the things I look forward to as I reach this age. Someone told me I love lists. I guess I do. So here…
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