Pre-presentation Warmup

• Think about a good teacher you had.
• Now think about something you learned from that teacher.
• What made the idea or topic stick?

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Today’s Outline

• Mike (me) will talk about about 15 minutes providing some context for today’s activity on teaching.
• Your goal will then be to prepare something to teach the others in this presentation
• We’ll then share with each other

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Teach Me in One Minute

Dr. Mike Shah, hosted by FirstByte

February 15, 2022

5:45 - 6:45 pm EST

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Who Am I?�by Mike Shah

• Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
• I teach courses in computer systems, computer graphics, and game engine development.
• My research in program analysis is related to performance building static/dynamic analysis and software visualization tools.
• I do consulting and technical training on modern C++, Concurrency, OpenGL, and Vulkan projects
• (Usually graphics or games related)
• I like teaching, guitar, running, weight training, and anything in computer science under the domain of computer graphics, visualization, concurrency, and parallelism.
• Contact information and more on: www.mshah.io

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Pre-presentation Warmup

• Think about a good teacher you had.
• Now think about something you learned from that teacher.
• What made the idea or topic stick?
• So, what did you come up with?
• Passion, enthusiasm
• Worksheets, structure -- relatable/unique
• Greatest American debate
• Menu of things to do -- choice, you felt invested and could connect to the material
• Quadratic formula (from 8th grade) -- visual, not just the proof. A song (different mediums)
• Algo -- find youngest person using algorithm. Less scary, memorable, and engagine

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How does one teach?

• One can start from the art of persuasion, trying to appeal to the ethos, pathos, and logos of the audience.
• Ethos - Credibility and Trust
• Logos - Logic and Reason
• Paths - Emotions and Values
• These are all things a teacher needs to possess or think about at some level.
• (Are your facts right, how will you present material, and why should someone listen to you, etc.)

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Teaching Wisdom (1/2)

• I think this wisdom from some other great teachers is probably more relevant.
• See the late Richard Feynman to the right ---------->

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Teaching Wisdom (2/2)

• (Or if you’d prefer the words of a computer scientist)

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Keep these ideas in mind

• Teachers trying to show off how smart they are, will lose students attention.
• Your job is to inspire and motivate--the students are the ones doing the learning
• (Well...we as teachers learn quite a bit by teaching!)
• Don’t lose students in ‘the jargon’ until you fascinate them with why the idea is important to them.

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A Few Strategies for Teaching

• First identify your audience
• Is this for an undergraduate, a professor, or someone who has never programmed?
• Speak in plain terms
• Explain as if a ten year old could understand.
• Then, progressive discuss a topic deeper eventually hitting your target audiences skill level
• Note; If you use metaphors or analogies to the real world, think globally (i.e. will everyone understand American Football references?)
• Tell a Story
• This is the part that will make folks care
• Why are they learning this subject matter? Why does it matter? Can you motivate with history? Can you motivate to students in another way?
• Identify your own knowledge gaps, and keep refining
• Sometimes your own knowledge gaps will be points you’ll want to take note of--probably a good idea to break down those gaps into smaller pieces (for yourself and your student)

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https://medium.com/taking-note/learning-from-the-feynman-technique-5373014ad230 More ideas on teaching and ‘the Feynman Technique’

Activity

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The Task

• The rest of the slides after this slide are for you folks!
• Claim a slide that you (and only you) will edit.
• You’ll have 15-20 minutes to work on a slide that you’ll present for 1 minute.
• Then we’ll gather, and you’ll each take a turn presenting for 1 minute
• (I’ll start and stop you)
• (We’ll start presenting at about 6:30pm)

• Does not have to be CS related!
• Suggested CS Topics:
• https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
• Any topic from this page
• Shell
• VIM
• Emacs
• Terminal
• SSH
• Version Control
• A programming language feature or technique
• (Could be something you learned this week!)
• Something you learned while on a co-op
• Maybe anything you’ve learned this semester in one of your courses!

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Title:

[Edit your name here] | Audience: [Edit who your audience is]

• Instructions
• [Rearrange the contents of this slide however you like to teach us something]
• [Remember, you’ll have 1 minute to present]
• [Please do not edit someone else’s slide]
• [Slides need not be perfect]

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Title: Classical Conditioning

[Harsh ] | Audience: [High school students]

• Ability to change default behaviour by adding a stimuli
• These can be good or bad
• Doctors use it on kids to reduce/remove fear of injection
• Everytime your phone rings you want to see it.
• Helpful to change your behaviour.

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Title: The Importance of Taking a Break!

[Arunima Gupta] | Audience: [Any Learner!]

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“focused mode” : utilizing information that is readily available to you in your conscious mind

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“Diffused mode” : Allowing your subconscious to make unexpected connections between disparate ideas

Title: How to save Money eating out in Boston

[Srikar Ananthoju] | Audience: [Anyone with money]

• This is not a paid promotion
• Look up the Seated app
• Choose any restaurant you want on the app
• Upload your receipt after you order
• Buy amazon or uber gift cards

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Title: How to brew a Minecraft potion

[Gwen Payne] | Audience: [New Minecraft players]

• Need: water bottles, brewing stand, blaze powder, netherwart, ingredient(s) of your choosing
• Right-click the brewing stand to open
• Place blaze powder in the top left spot, water bottles in the bottom slots, and netherwart in the top slot
• The potions will begin brewing — it takes about 20 seconds to brew a potion
• Place ingredient of your choosing to the top slot. The potion will begin brewing again
• Redstone = longer, gunpowder = splash potion

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Title: Model View Controller (MVC) Program

[Kreena Totala] | Audience: [Undergrad Students]

• Why we build programs the way we do
• Decoupling
• Readability
• Flexible (easy to add new features)
• Snake!

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How to Play Minesweeper

Andy Ge | Audience: anyone who doesn’t know how to play minesweeper

• Goal : find every mine

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• Controls :
• Left click - no mine on this square
• Right click - mine on this square

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• Numbers represent number of mines in the adjacent 8 squares
• Use number of mines you know are adjacent to deduce contents of nearby squares
• To start, left click a square, and begin sweeping mines!

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Title: The Strategies and Importance of Criminal Interrogation

[Frank Healey] | Audience: [Anyone who will listen]

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2 common scenarios:

1. Crime Committed -> Suspect found -> Suspect Interrogated -> Suspect found guilty

2. Crime Committed -> Culprit found -> Culprit Interrogated

Importance of Scenario #1

• To get the suspect to divulge information that may aid in the court process
• To get an admission or partial admission
• To help ties up “loose ends” (Body, weapon, accomplices)
• Have them give fake stories before they are found guilty

Importance of Scenario #2

• To get the Culprit to divulge information that may aid in the court process
• To deny a insanity plea
• To get information that would lead harsher sentencing
• Prove premeditation

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Strategies to get the suspect to divulge information/ admit:

• Physical placement (See image)
• Offering moral alternatives
• Getting a partial admission
• Building Rapport with suspect

Interrogators will do everything they can to avoid having the suspect/ culprit seek legal support as this essentially stops any potential further admission of guilt

Title: How to make egg fried rice (no excuses)

Shane Park | Audience: CS majors with no life experience

• Ingredients
• Some leftover rice from last night’s meal
• Cooking oil (Sesame is the best)
• Eggs
• Soy Sauce, Salt, Whatever else
• Green Onions
• Literally any vegetables lying around
• Meat if available
• Instructions
• Beat eggs and heat up oil in nonstick pan
• Place eggs until somewhat cooked
• Put rice (and meat if you have some) and more oil and stir
• Season it with Soy Sauce and whatever else you have
• Put vegetables in and turn off heat

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Title: What your favorite color says about you

[Kaitlyn Wong] | Audience: [Anyone]

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Title: How to make a boat

[Neeti Desai] | Audience: [Anyone]

• Start with a square (wrapper, paper, etc.)
• Fold your square in half & fold in half again - you will have four layers
• Fold one layer in half, so that it looks like a triangle
• Fold the other three layers in half the opposite way - you should have a triangle
• Take the ends of your triangle and squish them together - you should have a triangle with a line down the middle
• Peel apart the sides of your triangle

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Title: How to knit a hat!

Hamsini Malli Sivakumar | Audience: Anyone

• Materials needed: round knitting loom, crochet hook, yarn of choice!
• Pick a round knitting loom around the size of your head
• Wrap the yarn clockwise or anti-clockwise around the pins with the loops facing outwards
• Complete this step for two rows
• Using your hook, take the bottom yarn and pull it over the top row of the yarn and over the pin
• Repeat this steps till your desired length is reached
• To close the hat:
• Pull the yarn out of the pins and pull on the yarn to shut it close, then stitch it close on one side

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Title: Improving your Google searches

[Parth] | Audience: [Anyone using the internet]

• Instructions
• [Rearrange the contents of this slide however you like to teach us something]
• [Remember, you’ll have 1 minute to present]
• [Please do not edit someone else’s slide]
• [Slides need not be perfect]

• Quotes: to look for an exact match
• pets “dog”
• Searches for all pet-related pages which contain the word “dog”
• Hyphen:exclude words
• computer -mac
• Searches for computers but excludes results relating to “mac”
• File type
• discrete math second edition filetype:pdf
• Searches for PDFs, great for finding books
• Site: limit results to a website
• cs 2510 site:reddit.com/r/neu
• Search for the course CS2510 on the Northeastern Subreddit

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