Nov 2, 2022
We list ten things that we often forget to tell—or remind—our students about cells. We learn how to create a peaceful forest-like retreat in our office using soundscapes, I get my winter shorts ready (seriously), and Margaret Reece comments about teaching urinary concepts. That last topic spurs a rant from Kevin on diversity of course sections.
00:00 | Introduction
00:56 | Pee Again
07:46 | A Forest in My Office
13:54 | Sponsored by AAA
14:27 | Getting Out My Winter Shorts
17:31 | Sponsored by HAPI
18:02 | Things We Forget to Tell Students About Cells
33:45 | Sponsored by HAPS
34:20 | More Things We Forget to Tell Students About Cells
50:02 | Staying Connected
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It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. (Albert Claude)
Pee Again
7 minutes
Reacting to The Pee Episode (TAPP 125), Dr. Margaret Reece explains why she thinks the urinary system could be covered far earlier in the anatomy and physiology course than is typical. Kevin then takes off on that idea, suggesting that we should encourage differences among sections of the same course taught at the same time in a single institution.
★ The Proper Order of Topics in A&P | Leaderboards | Student Frustration | TAPP 88
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A Forest in My Office
6 minutes
Kevin shares a story about how a soundscape at an anatomy conference in Kyoto gave him the idea to turn his office into a forestlike peaceful retreat to return to after class and other activities.
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Getting Out My Winter Shorts
3 minutes
Kevin announces that the next few episodes will be short episodes—remixes of just one or two segments gleaned from the last five years of The A&P Professor podcast. This will give Kevin the break he needs to generate the psychic energy needed for the spectacular predictions for the year in the next full episode coming in late January.
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Things We Forget to Tell Students About Cells
15.5 minutes
Here, we outline four (of ten) things that we sometimes under-emphasize to students in our A&P course when discussing cells:
★ Cell diagrams & stained specimens are best thought of as cartoons. They are simplified.
★ Cells are not multicolored, as they are often represented. They are transparent.
★ A fuller concept of the cytoskeleton
★ Molecular motors, which are part of the cytoskeleton, are the movers of cells.
This segment mentions the mind's eye of students, which is not well developed in all students.
★ Minding the Mind's Eye in Slides | Feedback on Abortion Misconceptions | TAPP 119
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More Things We Forget to Tell Students About Cells
15.5 minutes
We finish our list of ten things that we often forget to keep in front of students as they struggle to understand cells and their characteristics.
★ Cells interact with the intracellular matrix (ECM).
★ Things are really, really, really—really—crowded inside cells. And this is a good thing.
★ Cells are not water balloons. Not exactly. Maybe a chunk of Jello covered in butter is a good supplemental example.
★ Cell processes don't happen in steps. Steps happen in explanations, not in the continous flow of living processes.
★ Cells make mistakes. All the time. Some are tragic; some are not.
★ Cells can take care of (many) mistakes.
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