Jeff Loats

Physics professor, Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Design at MSU Denver

[Jeff Loats @JeffLoats]

@CocoDavies @CityCastDenver @LadySpeech Your stock took a big hit (with me) with this episode. Why would a tarot reading be useful? Why not find out which Harry Potter house Denver belongs to?

Are you bringing in a dowser to discuss the water problems in the west?

I'm disappointed. 😞

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@dougledIHE @eromerohall @alannagillis3 Some good stuff here. I'm frustrated Hyflex was conflated with "dual mode" or "synchronous flexible" course formats. Since 2006 has included and entirely asynch. option. The history was mentioned, but that crucial point was missed.

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My secund time at the POD Covered. It is officially my favorite conference. #POD19

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Working hard on my APP QM course. Time-intensive for sure, but I am certainly gaining a much better understanding of what a QM review entails. Note to self... don't plan a QM course and vacation in the same time period, they don't get along well. #QualityLearning

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So pernicious! First day of a higher ed conference, and "learning styles" had already reared its head. #LearningStylesDontExist
#SSHE19

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For a few years I've used https://t.co/FwnUv0xOEG to text my students. I find it useful and I know many other teachers do as well. Sadly, @verizon is instituting a fee and https://t.co/FwnUv0xOEG will no longer be able to send to Verizon phones. #ReverseTheFee #NotSpam

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Thanks for the great First Timers session! #engagepod18

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Enjoying my first POD Conference! Good first couple of sessions, now off to the First Timers meet up. #pod18

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I'm excited and nervous to be facilitating a design sprint as part of #TLTS18

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My take: If class time can be effectively replaced with a video... It _should_ be. Do that part outside if class, and spend class time on the parts that deserve interaction, discussion, discovery and inquiry. #coltt2018

[Patricia Vollmer @vollmerdp]

Lecture may certainly be LESS necessarily, but we have to be careful that students aren't going to "wrong" sources for their information. My field (meteorology) is full of wrong information freely available on the interwebs. See: chemtrails, flat earth, & the shape of raindrops.

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I think I probably agree... but maybe in the ten years after that? If we manage to get VR that fully captures body language and facial expression, I think it would take over distance education. #coltt2018

[Bradon Lewis @BradonLewis]

Is something is wrong with me, but I don’t think #VirtualReality will have a big impact in #HigherEd for the next ten years. #EdTech

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I liked that question a lot. I wanted to hear "Follow the evidence." As an answer. We don't have to make wild guesses.

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I chickened out in Pundit Showdown... I should have gone ahead and yelled "Learning styles don't exist!!" at Steve. #coltt2018

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I loves me some data... but please have zero at the bottom of your scale!
#coltt2018

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Complete the tweet:
The best teachers...
apply their knowledge of teaching research in mindfully choosing how to construct and implement their courses.
#coltt2018

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Lively, engaged discussion at our OER session. It has been a few years since I was at COLTT, and I missed it! #coltt2018

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(My attempt)
Student success is defined as...
transforming the opportunities students have in their future, while enriching their intellectual, emotional and physical lives.
#aascuAAM @sewsueme

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I should have a betting pool for when i attend a teaching conference:
- How long will it take for someone to mention "learning styles"?
- Will quantum physics terms be abused in bad analogies?

/snark

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Attending a physics conference where the topics include human feelings if pretty powerful. I'm so glad to be here.
#apscuwip #ASU

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#apscuwip #ASU Plenary talk about Astrobiology is great. Thinking about the massive shift in our ideas about other planets in the last 20 years (back then, we had no direct evidence of any planets outside our solar system).