Comments | steuard: Sharing non-physics ideas with my students

steuard

Sharing non-physics ideas with my students

Apr 21, 2013 22:22

Quite a while ago, I mentioned the "#WowGood2Know" facts that I'd started including with the homework assignments in my intro physics classes; folks seem to like them. Well, this semester I mostly ran out of my existing list of those, and I decided to do something a little different: I shared a slightly longer discussion inspired by a (linked) blog ( Read more... )

sexism, teaching, links, students

Comments 6

kirinn April 22 2013, 17:41:17 UTC

Some good stuff there. Wanted to let you know the link to the Capt Awkward comment about The Question is broken, at least in my browser - there's a backslash-pound that's not escaping correctly I think. I can still find the comment by going to the main CA post linked above and searching.

steuard April 22 2013, 17:46:35 UTC

Oh, thanks! The backslash was left over from including this in a LaTeX file (for the homework set that it accompanied); I fixed most of the LaTeX syntax, but buried in a URL this one flew under my radar. Should be all set now!

kuddliphish April 25 2013, 15:52:46 UTC

That is a very nice round up of sites.

Don't be too bummed that the feedback was mostly from women. I bet that half the feedback was gratitude or relief in knowing that you (an older man in a position of authority) are an ally--even if it isn't thought of in exactly those terms. I'm sure you reached the young men in your class as well, but having your consciousness raised doesn't necessarily engineer the same warm feelings.

kuddliphish April 26 2013, 15:41:47 UTC

Comments on this topic in facebook have got me thinking about good articles on how our culture treats (and mistreats) masculinity and men. I'd rather avoid facebook drama, but could send you links along these lines if you would be interested. so far I haven't found anything quite as good as the other articles in your list. I've been trying to google up some of my favorites, but keep running into cracked articles, which aren't really of the same caliber.

steuard April 27 2013, 11:24:53 UTC

I'd very much like to have some good links along those lines, so share away! I agree that it's tough to find high quality writing with that focus, but anything decent (that's not MRA BS) would be a starting place.

kuddliphish April 27 2013, 22:02:22 UTC

MRA? Do I want to know ( ... )