R 4 All: Welcoming and inclusive practices for teaching R

With the rising interest in data science and programming, those of us teaching (with) R can now reach a larger audience than we ever thought possible. As educators, it is our responsibility to ensure that while we are building interesting and challenging curricula for these students, we also do it in a way that is attractive and engaging for a diverse audience as well as supportive enough to minimize the number of students who fall through the cracks. Adopting welcoming and inclusive practices can enable these students, whatever their background and circumstances, to achieve their potential and grow and engage with the larger R and data science community. In this talk, we highlight a collection of pedagogical considerations, tips, and tricks for designing a welcoming and inclusive curriculum for teaching (with) R. In addition, we demonstrate tooling and infrastructure solutions for making it as straightforward and painless as possible to put these approaches into practice in the classroom.

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1. 4 all mine çetinkaya-rundel minebocek mine-cetinkaya-rundel cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com rstd.io/r4all-cardiff welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R
2. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff so, you want to teach R? ✔ learner personas ✔ learning goals ✔ list of topics ✔ resources ❓ … ✔ syllabus ✔ computing infrastructure
3. get students interested keep curriculum challenging enough to make it worthwhile for the students ensure curriculum is supportive enough to minimize number of students who fall through the cracks prepare students for the next phase
4. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff get to know your students 1
5. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff get to know your students twitter.com/andrewheiss/status/1161327738000531458 forms.gle/La4UfDjNLkyKR45B9
6. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff forms.gle/La4UfDjNLkyKR45B9 get to know your students
7. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff student dashboard
8. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff class dashboard
9. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff ✨ minecr.shinyapps.io/student-dashboard/ rstd.io/student-dashboard-code
10. help them get help 2
11. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with ?help socviz.co/appendix.html#a-little-more-about-r
12. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with ❌
13. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with ✅
14. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with searcher offers preliminary support for automatically or manually searching errors that are generated in R.
15. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with searcher
16. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with searcher
17. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with searcher
18. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff help with reprex forces students to fulfil the technical criteria so the instructor can focus on the help that only a human can provide "Robot Pedantry, Human Empathy” mikemcquaid.com/2018/06/05/robot-pedantry-human-empathy
19. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff sans ❌ reprex
20. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff ✅ with reprex
21. live code early & often 3
22. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff ❌
23. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff ✅
24. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff livecoding tips use default appearance and font styles zoom in and use larger fonts ✋ avoid keyboard shortcuts, unless carefully narrating test your physical space / back of classroom ⏺ + record + broadcast
25. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff livecode with livecode github.com/rundel/livecode
26. leverage visuals 4
27. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/643381054758363136
28. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff jennybc.github.io/purrr-tutorial/more-resources.html
29. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff github.com/allisonhorst/stats-illustrations
30. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff and leverage non-visuals twitter.com/KStackWhitney/status/1143497505654677504
31. define & pronounce terms 5
32. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff define > ?double
33. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff Felienne. “Explicit Direct Instruction in Programming Education” resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/opening-keynote-day2 pronounce
34. highlight diversity 6
35. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff significancemagazine.com/624 > EU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survey > European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence > LGBTData: repository by Drexel University School of Public Health > Population Research in Sexual Minority Health (PRISM) Data Archive > US Center for Disease Control (CDC) data gender diversity
36. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff language diversity
37. provide instant feedback 7
38. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff R Rmd Does my Rmd knit? Am I pushing extraneous files to my repo?
39. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff Does my Rmd knit?
40. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff Am I pushing extraneous files to my repo?
41. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff R Rmd Am I following style guidelines? periodically
42. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff repo_style(repo = "ghclass-demo/hw-03-ncbikecrash-ghclass-anya", files = "*.Rmd", draft = TRUE) #> ✔ Created branch 'styler' from 'ghclass-demo/hw-03-ncbikecrash-ghclass-anya'. #> ✔ Cloned 'ghclass-demo/hw-03-ncbikecrash-ghclass-anya@styler'. #> ✔ Created pull request for 'ghclass-demo/hw-03-ncbikecrash-ghclass-anya (master <= styler)'.
43. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff
44. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff take a note from praise, also comment on positives don’t just point out negatives
45. invite peer feedback 8
46. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff make expertise “contagious” within your class help students see their work through another’s eyes, without instructor having to point out flaws peer review
47. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff peer review with ghclass
48. amplify diverse voices 9
49. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff
50. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff Brooke Watson
51. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff Julia Silge
52. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff Omayma Said
53. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff
54. make room for creativity 10
55. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff analyze your own data
56. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff ugly ggplot2 themes twitter.com/biogeobiochem/status/1172547846479831040
57. rstd.io/r4all-cardiff draw a christmas tree smarterpoland.pl/index.php/2017/12/christmas-trees
58. 4 all minebocek mine-cetinkaya-rundel cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com rstd.io/r4all-cardiff welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R Illustrations by Desirée De Leon, @dcossyle rstd.io/r4all-github