Power Tips for Dissection Activities | TAPP Episode 34

0:43 | Summer neuroscience workshop
3:45 | Ganglion cells
10:52 | Sponsored by HAPS
11:13 | Featured topic 1: Dissection lists
30:49 | Sponsored by AAA
31:02 | Featured topic 2: Pre-dissection practice

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Students don't often realize that they are their own best teacher. (Sr. Virginia Brinks)

1 | Summer neuroscience workshop

3 minutes
Thirteenth Annual Summer Workshop: Hardware and Software Experiments to Teach Neuroscience. Kevin participated in an earlier version of this workshop and got a lot out of it.

• During 2019, partial costs associated with the Workshop (lodging in MU dorms + meals) will be provided by a grant.
• See Neuro Workshop Flyer Summer 2019
  • my-ap.us/2AjU3Hb
• 1-week Summer Course
  • July 14 to July 20, 2019
  • Starts at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, and ends at 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 20 (travel days of Sunday 14 July and Sunday 21 July)
  • Limited to 10 participants
  • Deadline of February 15, 2019
    • Review of applications may begin earlier

 

 

2 | Ganglion cells

7 minutes
Light-sensitive ganglion cells contain the visual pigment melanopsin that is involved a non-imaging kind of vision that helps us detect sunlight levels in our environment. This information helps us sync our biological clocks to our environment—and may affect our mood.

• Scientists Find A Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression (brief article and audio story)
  • my-ap.us/2Ar9xJJ
• Luxotonic signals in human frontal-polar cortex: A possible substrate for effects of light on mood (abstract of a presentation at Neuroscience 2018)
  • my-ap.us/2Af9yjO
• Light Affects Mood and Learning through Distinct Retina-Brain Pathways (research article)
  • my-ap.us/2AfaaWE
• Ganglion cell (overview of the ganglion cell of the retina)
  • my-ap.us/2AbluD5

 

 

3 | Sponsored by HAPS

0.5 minutes
The Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) is a sponsor of this podcast. Did you know there's a one-day regional HAPS conference in March? Check it out. You can help appreciate their support by clicking the link below and checking out the many resources and benefits found there.
Anatomy & Physiology Society 
theAPprofessor.org/haps
 

4 | Dissections lists

19.5 minutes
Dissection lists are a type of "lab list" in which each structure required for discovery, familiarization, and/or mastery is listed in a clearly organized handout. This handout can be used by students for organizing learning and clarifying their learning objectives—and by teachers to help monitor student progress for effective coaching.
 

 

5 | Sponsored by AAA

0.5 minute
The searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) at anatomy.org

• Searchable transcript
• Captioned audiogram 

 

 

6 | Pre-dissection practice activity

7 minutes
A simple handout with photographs of dissection specimens can be used by students to walk through their dissection activity before they arrive in the lab. This gives them a stronger preparation that a "cold start" in lab, which often gets chaotic of students aren't practiced in finding structures.

• A similar approach can be used for learning the skeleton
  • Described in Episode 10: Nine Super Strategies for Teaching the Skeleton

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Episode 34 Intro | TAPP Radio Preview

Host Kevin Patton previews the content of the upcoming full episode, which focuses on powering up how we do dissection activities. 
There's more... a few content updates... plus feedback from listener Mindi Fried,  some word dissections and a recommendation from The A&P Professor Book Club.
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Topics
1 minute

• Summer Neuroscience Workshop
• Ganglion cells in the retina
• Powering up our dissection activities
  • Dissection lists
  • Pre-dissection activity

Feedback
4 minutes

• Mindi Fried weighs in on the value of preview episodes. 
• As we approach the anniversary of this podcast, let's hear what you think!
  • podcast@theAPprofessor
  • 1.833.LION.DEN (1.833.546.6336)

Word Dissections
6 minutes

• Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
• Melanopsin
  • Rhodopsin
  • Photopsin
• Circadian

Book Club
3 minutes

• The Physician (The Cole Trilogy Book 1) by Noah Gordon
• Book details: amzn.to/2LzEvDO
• Historical fiction
• Story of a European who studies medicine under Persian physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
  • my-ap.us/2ShqeOD

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Test Frequency in the A&P Course | TAPP Episode 33

0:41 | Hair color inheritance
7:07 | Sponsored by AAA
7:21 | Building body maps
10:14 | Preview episodes
11:39 | Sponsored by HAPS
12:11 | Featured: Test frequency in the A&P course

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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. (Will Durant)

1 | Hair color inheritance

3.5 minutes
New information about the inheritance of red hair shows that there's a lot more to it than just having two copies of the red-hair version of the gene MC1R. A lot more. Maybe its not just polygenic, but perhaps omnigenic.

• Hair colour gene study sheds new light on roots of redheads' locks (summary of the update) my-ap.us/2zYXkeL
• Genome-wide study of hair colour in UK Biobank explains most of the SNP heritability (the research article in Nature Communications) my-ap.us/2zWWIpU

 

 

2 | Sponsored by AAA

0.5 minute
The searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) at anatomy.org

• Searchable transcript
• Captioned audiogram 

 

 

3 | Building body maps

3 minutes
It turns out that all that kicking inside the uterus during the last trimester of pregnancy has a role in the mapping of our body in the somatosensory cortex.

• Babies kicking in the womb are creating a map of their bodies (summary of the update; includes videos) my-ap.us/2A0t8jv
• Newborn babies' brain responses to being touched on the face measured for the first time (some related news) my-ap.us/2zWX3ZI
• Developmental trajectory of movement-related cortical oscillations during active sleep in a cross-sectional cohort of pre-term and full-term human infants (the research article in Scientific Reports) my-ap.us/2A0lcib

 

 

4 | Preview episodes

1.5 minutes
If you haven't been listening to the preview episodes released shortly before each full episode, try them out! Then let me know what you think.

 

5 | Sponsored by HAPS

0.5 minutes
The Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) is a sponsor of this podcast. Did you know there's a one-day regional HAPS conference in March? Check it out. You can help appreciate their support by clicking the link below and checking out the many resources and benefits found there.
Anatomy & Physiology Society  |  theAPprofessor.org/haps
 

6 | Test frequency in the A&P course

13.5 minutes
Listener Krista Rompolski calls in and asks Kevin for his opinion on the best frequency of tests for the undergraduate A&P course.
Here are some previous episodes outlining Kevin's testing practices (and why he does it that way):

• Episode 1 | Intro | Spaced Retrieval Practice
• Episode 2 | Testing As a Teaching Strategy
• Episode 3 | Pre-Tests Power-Boost Learning
• Episode 4 | Cumulative Tests Make Learning Last
• Episode 7 | Teaching For Long-Term Learning

Here's the episode in which The Learning Scientists talk about the value of retrieval practice

• Episode 27 | Understanding How We Learn, a Chat with Yana Weinstein & Megan Sumeracki

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Episode 33 Intro | TAPP Radio Preview

Host Kevin Patton previews the content of the upcoming full episode, which focuses on standards for test frequency in the A&P course. 

There's more... a few content updates and end-of-year reminders... plus some word dissections and recommendations from The A&P Professor Book Club.

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Topics

• Inheritance of red hair
• New information on how we form sensory maps in our brain
• Featured: Kevin answers Krista Rompolski's question about test frequency in A&P

Word Dissections

• Omnigenic
• Primary somatosensory cortex
• Homunculus
  • Here's an example: my-ap.us/2zX3NqO

Book Club

• Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos 
  • amzn.to/2L9fzCE
• Browse The A&P Professor Book Club 
  • https://my-ap.us/bookclub
• Storytelling in teaching: Episode 12

End of Year

• Homework
  • Don't forget your assignment: share an episode of this podcast with a colleague!
• End-of-term debriefing
  • Review tips for debriefing in Episode 17 

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anatomy.org

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Helping Students With Test Anxiety | TAPP Episode 32 | BONUS

  0:53 | It's a BONUS episode!
  1:15 | Mitochondrial inheritance
  4:28 | Cardiac stem cells
  6:48 | Sponsored by HAPS
  7:20 | Help getting journal articles
11:18 | Sponsored by AAA
11:31 | Featured: Helping students with test anxiety
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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. (Shawn Johnson)
This is a BONUS episode—which means it's a long one!

1 |Mitochondrial inheritance 3 minutes
New research shows that in some cases, paternal mtDNA may be passed along to offspring in a pattern that resembles autosomal dominant inheritance.

• Biparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA in Humans (research article) my-ap.us/2PeptDl

2 | Cardiac stem cells 2 minutes
Do cardiac stem cells exist? We thought so. But maybe not.

• Dozens of Retractions Requested for Heart Stem Cell Studies (news item) my-ap.us/2PanzUx
• Adult Cardiac Stem Cells Don’t Exist: Study (news item) my-ap.us/2Pdvdxg
• More Doubt Cast Over Cardiac Stem Cells (older news item) my-ap.us/2Pd9a9O

3 | Sponsored by HAPS 0.5 minutes
The Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) is a sponsor of this podcast. Did you know there's a reduced "early bird" registration rate for the annual HAPS confercnce in Portland OR next May? Check it out. You can help appreciate their support by clicking the link below and checking out the many resources and benefits found there.
Anatomy & Physiology Society  |  theAPprofessor.org/haps



4 | Help getting journal articles 4 minutes
Follow one of my links (or some other hyperlink) and it takes you to journal article that's behind a paywall? Kevin explains a legal, ethical way to access the full article with no costs to you. You'll have to listen to hear this super secret trick!

5 | Sponsored by AAA 0.5 minute
The searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) at anatomy.org

• Searchable transcript  my-ap.us/TAPP32
• Captioned audiogram https://youtu.be/JU_l76JGwVw

 

 

6 | Helping students with text anxiety 45 minutes
Kevin's Theory of Test Anxiety states that we are ALL subject to test anxiety. Perhaps occasionally. Perhaps often. In any case, it can affect our ability to retrieve and apply the information we've practiced and thereby affect our performance—and score—on a test or exam. Sometimes significantly. What, if anything, can be done to avoid text anxiety or manage it once it strikes? What can teachers do? What can students do? Well, here's a place to start!
Here are some links you can share with your students:

• 9 Proven Tricks for Reducing Test Anxiety my-ap.us/9anxietytricks
• Take a Nap Before Your Next A&P Test my-ap.us/napbeforetest
• Don't forget to breathe! my-ap.us/dontforget2breathe
• Coloring Books Are Powerful Study Tools (And They Help Manage Stress) my-ap.us/APcoloringbooks
• Get Your Head in the Game - 5 Tips for Success in Learning my-ap.us/APgetheadingame

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