My introduction to Paideia teaching was a grey Thursday in January 2013 — blessed be that first batch of students, for they were patient with the initial out-of-the-gates lecture, which I’ve since refined considerably.<\/p>\n
For this year’s Paideia runs (two classes of ~10 people each) I restructured my approach a bit, added the OKCupid data <\/a>that Albert and I used in the Introduction to R class, and tinkered with content as one does when (a) teaching and (b) being of the “can’t leave well enough alone” school.<\/p>\n In addition to the usual slides (useful visuals and reference), I directed students to our own Stata page<\/a> for starters, and the truth of the classic xkcd tech support char<\/a>t for all matters going forward.<\/p>\n Next time around I’ll add a *.do file to work through, since that was a great tool in Albert’s class and removed the complications of having to type in commands. I do believe it’s important to learn by doing, be that at a keyboard or any other workbench, but for the sake of time in the workshop, flow in teaching, and minimizing student frustration — something to try next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My introduction to Paideia teaching was a grey Thursday in January 2013 — blessed be that first batch of students, for they were patient with the initial out-of-the-gates lecture, which I’ve since refined considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,30],"tags":[35,38,39],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantitative-analysis","category-workshops","tag-paideia","tag-stata","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}