What's the Best Way to Teach Science?

0:31 What's the best way to teach science in my opinion? It's to do science. And to summarize my motto it's this: Don't Kill the Wonder! (and don't hide the practices)

0:42 The wonder is a look that you see on a person's face when they're REALLY interested in a problem but they don't know the answer.

1:13 And so the WORST way to teach science is to start by explaining! You want them to have that curiosity and then follow that curiosity.

3:16 When you're teaching science it's not the content ... what is the most important thing. It's the actual practices of doing science.

3:41 ...We live in an ironic time. At a time where people are so excited about science and new discoveries but students are not excited about their classroom. And I think one of the reasons why, is that what we do, is we tend to just explain all the time. When you explain all the time what you lose is the Wonder. —

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The Cornell notes practice of writing questions in the empty left column as a means of testing knowledge can be an effective tool after taking notes to ensure that one has actually learned and understood the broad concepts. They can also be used for spaced repetition purposes as well.

Valuable though they may be as teaching and learning tools, they don't figure directly into the idea of permanent notes from a zettelkasten perspective.

Provide trainees with a long period here to look at ucsc and play with it (time permitting)

So we have the original exon list, and we have a list of exon IDs, and the exon IDs on their own aren't very useful, so, let's find the exons in the original file which match these exon IDs

Q: Ok, given last file, how would we figure this out? anyone know it in excel?

Again, numbers may be diff, compare with students

Q: What datasets do you have? How would you could about figuring this out? what information would you use?

go back and do it again! It's the same thing over again

I usually just open the dataset and discuss what an exon is (genomic region w/ annotation.)

i'll read the parameters, but, they can check against the tutorial to be sure they're doing the right variables.

This is such an important step! So easy for students to get lost in their histories, remind them that it's normal, it happens to us, and life will be so much easier if they name things well.

everyone should be logged into usegalaxy.eu by now

Users can read if they like, but, not very important. Some people just really want to know the science, even though it's not relevant to what you're doing, which is learning how to manipulate the galaxy ui

Important to note for students, that they understand this central question