Week 9 of 22
OCTOBER 5 TO 8
Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
Whether a cochlear implant should be described as a fix. Some Deaf people do not consider deafness a problem needing solving, and framing the implant as a cure carries a claim about their lives.
Reading an audiogram: frequency across, loudness down, and the shape of the curve tells you what kind of loss it is.
Modeling how a disease moves through a population and what changes when a fraction is immune.
The threshold depends on how contagious the disease is. More contagious means a higher fraction needed, and for the most contagious diseases the number is uncomfortably close to everyone.
ME
The model stopped spreading before everyone was vaccinated. The unvaccinated are protected by the vaccinated.
Portfolio audit against the rubric. Two items were missing labels. Two minutes to fix once found.