R4All: Welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R

With 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-latinR welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R
2. rstd.io/r4all-latinR so, you want to teach R? ✔ learner personas ✔ learning goals ✔ list of topics ✔ resources ❓ … ✔ syllabus ✔ computing infrastructure
3. Think back to when you were first learning R, or the first programming language you learned. What about the instruction made it more challenging for you?
4. 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
5. rstd.io/r4all-latinR get to know your students 1
6. rstd.io/r4all-latinR get to know your students twitter.com/andrewheiss/status/1161327738000531458 forms.gle/La4UfDjNLkyKR45B9
7. rstd.io/r4all-latinR forms.gle/La4UfDjNLkyKR45B9 get to know your students
8. help them get help 2
9. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with ?help socviz.co/appendix.html#a-little-more-about-r
10. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with ❌
11. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with ✅
12. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with searcher
13. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with searcher offers preliminary support for automatically or manually searching errors that are generated in R.
14. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with searcher
15. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with searcher
16. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with reprex forces students to fulfill 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
17. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with ❌
18. rstd.io/r4all-latinR help with reprex ✅
19. live code early & often 3
20. rstd.io/r4all-latinR ❌
21. rstd.io/r4all-latinR ✅
22. rstd.io/r4all-latinR livecode and broadcast 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
23. rstd.io/r4all-latinR livecode with livecode github.com/rundel/livecode
24. leverage visuals 4
25. rstd.io/r4all-latinR twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/643381054758363136
26. rstd.io/r4all-latinR jennybc.github.io/purrr-tutorial/more-resources.html
27. rstd.io/r4all-latinR github.com/allisonhorst/stats-illustrations
28. rstd.io/r4all-latinR and leverage non-visuals twitter.com/KStackWhitney/status/1143497505654677504
29. define & pronounce terms 5
30. rstd.io/r4all-latinR define > ?double
31. rstd.io/r4all-latinR Felienne. “Explicit Direct Instruction in Programming Education” resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/opening-keynote-day2 pronounce
32. highlight diversity 6
33. rstd.io/r4all-latinR 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
34. rstd.io/r4all-latinR language diversity
35. provide instant feedback 7
36. rstd.io/r4all-latinR 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)'.
37. rstd.io/r4all-latinR
38. rstd.io/r4all-latinR take a note from praise, also comment on positives don’t just point out negatives
39. invite peer feedback 8
40. rstd.io/r4all-latinR > make expertise “contagious” within your class > help students see their work through another’s eyes, without instructor having to point out flaws peer review
41. rstd.io/r4all-latinR peer review with ghclass
42. signal post 9
43. rstd.io/r4all-latinR
44. rstd.io/r4all-latinR Brooke Watson
45. rstd.io/r4all-latinR Julia Silge
46. rstd.io/r4all-latinR
47. make room for creativity 10
48. rstd.io/r4all-latinR analyze your own data
49. rstd.io/r4all-latinR ugly ggplot2 themes twitter.com/biogeobiochem/status/1172547846479831040
50. rstd.io/r4all-latinR draw a christmas tree smarterpoland.pl/index.php/2017/12/christmas-trees
51. Do you have other tips or resources you’d like to share?
52. 4 all minebocek mine-cetinkaya-rundel cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com rstd.io/r4all-latinR welcoming + inclusive practices for teaching R Illustrations by Desirée De Leon, @dcossyle