Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom
Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus
Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus
Sometimes there is no positive outcome when something goes wrong. Sometimes things just get messed up because people are human.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus
Inadvertently we have a subtext that teaching is somehow perfectible. Teaching and learning will never ever be perfectible.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus
Resources
Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) at Syracuse University
Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
Geeky Pedagogy, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship, by Mahan Khalsa
The Sleeper, by Mike Wesch
SIFT (The Four Moves), by Mike Caulfield
Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos by Carla M. Lopez for McSweeney’s
DEI? You’re Fired! with Heather McGhee on The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
10 In the Moment Responses for Addressing Micro and Macroaggressions in the Classroom, by Chavella Pittman
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, by David Yeager
Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching, by Lauren Barbeau, Claudia Cornejo Happel
Dippity Do Girls with Curls Curl Boosting Mousse
MoMA Sliding Perpetual Calendar
Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Hand Soap
Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education
International Journal for Students as Partners
Tea for Teaching Podcast
The Present Professor, by Elizabeth A. Norell
Thrifty Shopper
We Are Lady Parts on Peacock
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The AI Con
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna share about their book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want on episode 576 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What's going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we're using it to mean, it's that it doesn't have a proper referent in the world.
-Emily M. Bender
There's a much broader range of people who can have opinions on AI.
-Alex Hanna
The boosters say AI is a thing. It's inevitable, it's imminent, it's going to be super powerful, and it's going to solve all of our problems. And the doomers say AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent, it's going to be super powerful, and it's going to kill us all. And you can see that there's actually not a lot of daylight between those two positions, despite the discourse of saying these are two opposite ends of a spectrum.
-Emily M. Bender
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
-Alex Hannay
Resources
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
The Princess Bride
Emily Tucker, Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? By Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell
Emily M. Bender’s website
How the right to education is undermined by AI, by Helen Beetham
How We are Not Using AI in the Classroom, by Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, by Karen Hao
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Are We There Yet? Rebuilding Trust in the Value of Education
Rolin Moe shares about rebuilding trust in the value of education (among other things) on episode 575 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I never again had a static lesson plan. I was always very fluid in whatever I was going to be doing. I knew where I wanted to get, but the road could go in all sorts of different directions.
- Rolin Moe
Learning is a continuous activity in all sorts of areas and all sorts of places.
- Rolin Moe
Education is the process of helping people find things that they don't yet know they love.
- Rolin Moe
Resources
Gary Stager
George Siemens
Van Gogh-Inspired AI Course Policy (YouTube)
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses – Wikipedia)
Smithsonian Institution
Michael Peter Edson
UC Riverside XCITE Center
Community Colleges in California
California State University (CSU) System
Go Somewhere Card Game
James A. Michener quote
Wingspan Board Game
Elizabeth Hargrave (Game Designer)
Merlin Bird ID App (Cornell Lab)
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May Contain Lies: Stories, Stats, and Bias
Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually.
-Alex Edmans
What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where something could be 100% accurate, but the inferences that we draw from them might be misleading.
-Alex Edmans
It's not that they're bad people, it's that they're people, they're humans. And if we're a person, we have biases.
-Alex Edmans
What I'm trying to highlight is the importance of being discerning. We want to have healthy skepticism, but we want to have the same healthy skepticism to something that we do like as something that we don't.
-Alex Edmans
Resources
May Contain Lies: How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases — and what we can do about it, by Alex Edmans
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Cookie Monster Practices Self-Regulation | Life Kit Parenting | NPR
Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics
Taking A Mosaic Approach to AI in the Writing Classroom, presented by Chris Ostro
All Else Equal Podcast
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
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How to Facilitate Enriching Learning Experiences
Tolu Noah shares about her new book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, on episode 573 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Whenever I'm planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience.
-Tolu Noah
I don't think there's necessarily one right way to approach planning.
-Tolu Noah
A really important aspect of facilitation is that yes, you have a plan, but you also need to be flexible with that plan and be willing to take a rest stop or a detour if needed.
-Tolu Noah
Timing is probably one of the most important aspects of facilitation.
-Tolu Noah
Resources
Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A Guide to Crafting Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education, by Tolulope Noah
Yoruba
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker
Richard E. Mayer
Padlet Breakout Rooms
Padlet Sandbox
Bryan Mathers Permission Slip
Headliner App
Butter Scenes
SessionLab
Facilitating On Purpose
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