Definition

A molecular party where two oxygen atoms showed up to one atom's house; the overachiever of oxides when one oxygen just won't cut it.

Example Usage

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps heat and contributes to climate change.

Source: IUPAC Chemical Terminology

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A specific, measurable statement describing what students should be able to do after completing a lesson or course, typically starting with action verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy. The educational equivalent of success criteria that professors write once and students never read.

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Relating to the study of how sounds function in language—basically, the nerdy linguistics way of analyzing why your accent makes people smile. It's all about the patterns and rules governing which sounds are considered different in a particular language.

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Learning Outcomes

Measurable statements describing what students will know or be able to do after a course, written primarily to satisfy accreditors and ignored by everyone else. They are to teaching what terms and conditions are to software -- technically important, universally unread.

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Colleagues, peers, or associates at similar rank or status; sometimes carries a scholarly connotation (like fellows at a university) implying camaraderie and mutual respect.

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The pedagogical philosophy that every student learns differently, which teachers acknowledge by continuing to teach the exact same way but feeling bad about it. It's the thought that counts, assuming the thought is documented in a lesson plan.

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symposium

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