R 4 All: Welcoming and inclusive practices for teaching R

at ECME, University of Edinburgh

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1. 4 all mine çetinkaya-rundel minebocek mine-cetinkaya-rundel cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com bit.ly/r4all-ecme welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R
2. bit.ly/r4all-ecme 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. bit.ly/r4all-ecme get to know your students 1
5. bit.ly/r4all-ecme get to know your students twitter.com/andrewheiss/status/1161327738000531458 forms.gle/La4UfDjNLkyKR45B9
6. bit.ly/r4all-ecme forms.gle/La4UfDjNLkyKR45B9 get to know your students
7. bit.ly/r4all-ecme student dashboard
8. bit.ly/r4all-ecme class dashboard
9. bit.ly/r4all-ecme ✨ minecr.shinyapps.io/student-dashboard/ rstd.io/student-dashboard-code
10. help them get help 2
11. bit.ly/r4all-ecme help with ?help socviz.co/appendix.html#a-little-more-about-r
12. bit.ly/r4all-ecme help with ❌
13. bit.ly/r4all-ecme help with ✅
14. bit.ly/r4all-ecme help with searcher offers preliminary support for automatically or manually searching errors that are generated in R.
15. bit.ly/r4all-ecme help with searcher
16. bit.ly/r4all-ecme help with searcher
17. bit.ly/r4all-ecme 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
18. bit.ly/r4all-ecme sans ❌ reprex
19. bit.ly/r4all-ecme ✅ with reprex
20. live code early & often 3
21. bit.ly/r4all-ecme ❌
22. bit.ly/r4all-ecme ✅
23. bit.ly/r4all-ecme 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
24. bit.ly/r4all-ecme livecode with livecode github.com/rundel/livecode
25. leverage visuals 4
26. bit.ly/r4all-ecme twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/643381054758363136
27. bit.ly/r4all-ecme jennybc.github.io/purrr-tutorial/more-resources.html
28. bit.ly/r4all-ecme github.com/allisonhorst/stats-illustrations
29. bit.ly/r4all-ecme and leverage non-visuals twitter.com/KStackWhitney/status/1143497505654677504
30. define & pronounce terms 5
31. bit.ly/r4all-ecme define > ?double
32. bit.ly/r4all-ecme Felienne. “Explicit Direct Instruction in Programming Education” resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/opening-keynote-day2 pronounce
33. highlight diversity 6
34. bit.ly/r4all-ecme 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
35. bit.ly/r4all-ecme language diversity
36. provide instant feedback 7
37. bit.ly/r4all-ecme R Rmd Does my Rmd knit? Am I pushing extraneous files to my repo?
38. bit.ly/r4all-ecme Does my Rmd knit?
39. bit.ly/r4all-ecme Am I pushing extraneous files to my repo?
40. bit.ly/r4all-ecme R Rmd Am I following style guidelines? periodically
41. bit.ly/r4all-ecme 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)'.
42. bit.ly/r4all-ecme
43. bit.ly/r4all-ecme take a note from praise, also comment on positives don’t just point out negatives
44. invite peer feedback 8
45. bit.ly/r4all-ecme make expertise “contagious” within your class help students see their work through another’s eyes, without instructor having to point out flaws peer review
46. bit.ly/r4all-ecme peer review with ghclass
47. amplify diverse voices 9
48. bit.ly/r4all-ecme Brooke Watson Julia Silge Omayma Said
49. bit.ly/r4all-ecme
50. make room for creativity 10
51. bit.ly/r4all-ecme analyse your own data
52. bit.ly/r4all-ecme ugly ggplot2 themes twitter.com/biogeobiochem/status/1172547846479831040
53. bit.ly/r4all-ecme draw a Christmas tree smarterpoland.pl/index.php/2017/12/christmas-trees
54. 4 all minebocek mine-cetinkaya-rundel cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com bit.ly/r4all-ecme welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R Illustrations by Desirée De Leon, @dcossyle bit.ly/r4all-github