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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 1d

More about the app Paolo referenced, and that I am excited about (!) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool

We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the shout out Paolo!

I’m excited at the ability of AI tools to get people started on apps like this. So far, I’ve found it takes some coding to make something more full-featured, but who knows what that’ll change..my guess is you could already tell this to use a specific existing model

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday in my college teaching class we discussed predicting as a learning strategy.

Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?

open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Teaching about... Prediction

Prediction as a learning enhancer

open.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 13d

A discussion about exams, wherein a student compares teaching well to making a movie, and I don't disagree.

open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Teaching about... Exams!

No one ever has opinions about exams.

open.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 15d

From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices!

open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Teaching about... Assignments etc

The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon

open.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 20d

What students* think about quizzes, lectures, learning styles, laptop bans, which teaching strategies are active, which are effective...

*my small graduate "how to teach college" class

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Graduate Teaching Class: Teaching Methods

What is active learning? What is effective teaching?

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 22d

Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago.

open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Curriculum type things

Discussions about curricular strategies and more from a class on teaching college

open.substack.com

JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 29d

The save icon continues to be an interesting indicator of changing computer literacy/practices:

Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk.

TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all!

We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks Brian, awesome to hear you’re reading!

JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Sep 4

This semester, I'm going to write about what we discuss in my college teaching class. The first 2 weeks have been a doozy, but I managed to get some stuff down!

On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Graduate Teaching Class: Week 1 & 2

Writing my way through teaching a class on teaching

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks for the shout out!

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Jun 23

Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class?

Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..

Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!

dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool

We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...

dx.doi.org

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · May 21

I spoke at our college graduation and told graduates 4 things. In retrospect those things are pretty related to teaching, so I posted them here: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What I told graduates

Four things...

open.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · May 14

Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...

Code in Class: All of the topics

Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · May 7

❤️

Christa Kelleher @hydrochrista.bsky.social · May 7

.. and if you are teaching about hydrologic modeling and need a smooth on-ramp, highly recommend @jpgannon.bsky.social HBV model: cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/

Before working with other platforms, we had a calibration competition - prizes given for best AND worst NSE for different watersheds!

Run the HBV Model for one of 700 CARAVAN Watersheds

cuahsi.shinyapps.io

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · May 7

This week's teaching post: students teaching students

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/students-t...

Students teaching students

Peer teaching is powerful!

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 30

Highly recommend. This is one of the books we work through in my College Teaching class and really helped me develop my own teaching philosophy.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Apr 30

Here's the book! It's been adopted by a bunch of departments for new grad students and is all about infusing mutual respect into the fundamentals of how we run our classrooms.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training—despite being a substantial part of the...

press.uchicago.edu

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 30

This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course.

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/integratin...

Integrating coding into an existing class

How I teach students to code along with disciplinary material

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 23

This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...

Assessment and Retrieval Practice in a Code-Heavy Class

Some ideas for assessments that help students learn

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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CUAHSI @cuahsi.bsky.social · Apr 22

CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection.
www.cuahsi.org/uploads/libr...

Cover of the CUAHSI 2024 Annual Report with a collage of photos depicting groups of people in varying learning environments.

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 16

This weeks' post about live coding: how to talk.

"I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end."

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...

How to talk while live coding

normalizing errors, growth mindset, stereotype threat....

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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Reposted by JP Gannon

CUAHSI @cuahsi.bsky.social · Apr 10

Our April e-Newsletter is out and it is loaded with content and announcements including new funding opportunities, a new workshop, a new cyberseminar and much more!
us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 9

This week's writing about Live Coding: This week I’m writing about nuts and bolts. How do I get students the code, what do we do in class, how do you like… do it.

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...

Live Coding: Making it Happen

setting up to run a class

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 3

One of my classes went so poorly today (endless tech issues, mostly) that one of my students emailed to say I’m doing a great job 😂

Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”

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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · Apr 2

This week's teaching post: How I set up for live-coding in class.

"I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. "

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/setting-up...

Setting up to Live-code in Class

More exciting that is sounds!

thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

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