CUNY Academic Commons

Hostos Community College
A rose is that students seemed to have genuinely enjoyed the summer pilot of the Excel program and its use in conducting statistical analysis and doing real-world problems.
A thorn was the whole IRB process – that was moderately painful when adding the research assistant as additional personnel. The rest was not so…[Read more]

What are your thoughts on the teacher candidate visual resource?

I liked the overview of technology in the context of ways it is empowering and disempowering. At the same time, after the previous readings that we have had up to this point, for the first time I was left wanting more information and details. I noticed some quotes from the teacher…[Read more]

I love this section on equity, which is why I got stuck in my progress in the asynchronous. I went all the way down the rabbit hole and read too much (can’t process all of it yet, but know where to go for it now).

• What are some noticings / wonderings you have about how we’ve framed equity in CITE? Any feedback for us?
  • The thing I noticed i…

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Forgot to add that the privacy policy was a bit disturbing with how much they share with “third party” to better align email solicitations for me – like I really want more junk email that they think I want. So there was that too.

My design process is a strange attempt at combining Liberatory Design for Equity Process with Understanding by Design, primarily because I have been designing with UbD for a while and now have fallen in love with aspects of Liberatory Design. The share here is a VERY rough attempt and definitely needs more time to develop, but I’ve already spend…[Read more]

My laptop is a Mac and the desktop at work is a Dell… so apparently Flipgrid and Dell get along better?

I found that Flipgrid on my laptop seems to create a strange echo chamber situation (my Module 0 intro video), while the desktop at work seems to work fine without the strange echo. Does anyone know what might be going on with trying to use Flipgrid on my laptop? I can’t seem to figure it out…

Attached is my remixed activity for use at the start of any course to help students define what intentions they would like all of us to adhere to in order to build a cohesive community and work together successfully across the semester.

Hey all! AJ Stachelek from Hostos Community College where I am a Director of Assessment and Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Rationale cards kept:
9 – it can help change the status quo, where our technology is largely designed by economically, racially, and socially privileged groups, and their biases and blind spots get embedded in our…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

My name is AJ Stachelek and I am the Director of Assessment and an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Hostos Community College.

I go by they/them, although often get read as he.

As for my thoughts about the Commons, it is either incredibly intuitive or completely baffling depending on the activity involved. It took me way…[Read more]