Jo-ann Larkins
@LarkinsJo
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Multidisciplinary STEM educator, demystifying statistics and quantitative literacy. Researching assessment; ‘Exams: what are they good for?' Views are my own.
FedUni Australia Gippsland
Joined February 2014
"This SEC official being suspended is groundbreaking.. I can't remember something like this happening in the middle of the season.. I think this is a real eye opener & I'm interested to see what this leads to" ~ @KirkHerbstreit #PMSLive
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The best bit of being a HDR supervisor is Graduation, celebrating the journey and the achievement. Congratulations Venkata on your Research Masters in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering (with a Dean's Award!!!!). It's been a privilege and fun too. #FederationUniversity
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I’m proud of the chapter I wrote for "The Making Academic: Perspectives on Expressive Practice and Wellbeing in #HigherEd". Part rant about academic metrics, part prayer about #knitting as creative practice for #Wellbeing. Available via Routledge. #AcademicLife #CreativePractice
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Wood is Taylor writing a trashy romance novel in song form. True bodice ripper vibes. (And she's nailed the assignment).
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Got to do maths live on the radio today with Clement the Clairvoyant pig on ABC Gippsland. What are the odds he's correctly picked two of the of the final four AFL teams, Hawks and Brisbane? About 1 in 750,000.
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Knitting teeny tiny mushrooms to #testknit a friend's pattern. Surprisingly these actually stand by themselves.
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I actually work at one of those places where we can do most of these because small classes and the ability to closely interact with your students. But we also teach online and increasingly on campus students don't see the value of class time...
@CCguerilla @NonwayneWayne Imagine utopian assessment security and small classes. You could get to know your students and their learning closely over a term in class activities and assessment, formative assessment then a large summative assessment. Lots of feedback can be offered and you can see progress
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I like Wayne's ideal world. As I research the pedagogy of written exams, I question whether they do test what we value in our disciplines. Any assesment reform needs to start with academics being clear what we value as important things to learn, demonstrate, apply and synthesise.
@CCguerilla Giving students options to demonstrate learning is ideal. Letting talkers talk, writers write and doers do. That requires far better staff to student ratios than we have now. I'd be happy with a spread: participation for talkers; research and pracs for doers; exams for writers
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Tidying up half a semester of my scrappy hadwritten meeting notes off my desk. This one needs to be shouted out to the world / into the void. "Stop being secretly excellent and be openly excellent". (Meeting about building a culture of excellence in learning and teaching).
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You know how you're prouder of some papers than others because it's your intellectual heavy lifting driving it? (Don't tell the rest of my papers where I'm playing the resident stats nerd). This one got it's first citation and I'm silently bouncing... Nice way to start a Monday.
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Presented without comment.
Word of the day is ‘immiseration’: the act of making people progressively more miserable.
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So that's how it works...
It is not that we are firing you, your job just doesn’t exist anymore.
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Gonna take Jen's advice as this week ends with yet another University wide change paper (rationalising units and courses = losing more brilliant colleagues). Also knitting on through all crises as usual.
Navigating uncertainty does *not* mean you are accepting what is happening around you. Rather, it helps you maintain your strength and focus so you can stand up for your values and advocate for what is important. Check out the video for four steps for navigating uncertainty.
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How's the knuckles @JasonKelce ? Need to work on that board breaking technique. (I prefer using my feet or elbows).
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Do you export to Australia? I may have someone who needs all the help he can get with his putting.
Giving away two (2) of these custom Swag putters! Retweet and follow to enter 👀
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Us little multidisciplinary statisticians sitting there in the middle of the web. (Probably along with some ethicists, mathematical modellers and philosophers).
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Poffertjes for Pancake Day? Perfect way to celebrate the first day of teaching for the new semester. (As an aside, I worked out I am teaching first year stats for the 55th time in my teaching career and it's still awesome).
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Well as an Australian fibre artist and knitter who is called Jo-ann, there's a thing I can cross off my bucket list. Wander if I can buy a store sign second hand and get it shipped down under?
Fabrics and crafts retailer Joann is going out of business and closing all its stores.
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