Teaching in Higher Ed

David Perry shares about his new book, The Public Scholar, on episode 621 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Teaching is the most important form of public engagement that any of us do.

-David Perry

If we are really practiced at teaching, and as we develop our skills as teachers, those are the skills that can also take us into other spaces outside of the classroom.

-David Perry

Academia is structured around all kinds of failure. Once you recognize that, and then bring yourself into another context where you’re going to experience rejection, you already have the skills to cope with it.

-David Perry

I think all writers, and certainly in academia, worry a lot about our worst faith readers. How do we not get ripped apart? You have to write for your best faith reader. You have to really shift your focus.

-David Perry

Resources

The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook by David M. Perry

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Kevin Gannon — The Tattooed Professor

Irene Maweu

Higher Love

Pluribus

The Drop Kick Murphys

‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the Twin Cities’ ICE resistance

The Neighborhood Kids, “Breaking News”

Flower Darby shares about being a joyful online teacher on episode 620 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Higher education doesn’t do a great job of preparing faculty to teach, generally speaking, that’s not new, but especially online teaching.

-Flower Darby

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.

-Flower Darby

Sometimes you don’t need all the latest bells and whistles; you don’t need the latest iPhone. We can be effective with simpler tools.

-Flower Darby

We can’t be joyful if we’re always working.

-Flower Darby

Resources

The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes by Flower Darby

Michelle Pacansky-Brock

The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

Dave Ghidiu

Denise Maduli-Williams

TextExpander

Thor: God of Thunder gets a library card

A Starting Point for Seth Godin’s Blog

Feel Good Inc., by Gorillaz

Muddiest Point Handout from Purdue

Revitalizing the Muddiest Point for Formative Assessment and Student Engagement in a Large Class, by Amy Mackos, Kelly Casler, Joni Tornwall, and Tara O’Brien

Poll Everywhere

Lew Ludwig + Todd Zakrajsek uncover themes from The Science of Learning Meets AI on episode 619 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We could actually create an educational system. Not so that it deals with the problems we have with AI, but so that those problems are no longer relevant.

-Todd Zakrajsek

If you don’t have students attention, they can’t learn because if you don’t attend to something, you can’t learn it.

-Todd Zakrajsek

Keep in mind that you’re the expert. This is your assignment. You know what you’re doing, you know the content, so then you can judge what AI gives you, what works, and what still may need some work.

-Lew Ludwig

What this gets down to is backward design; we start with the learning goals. We should figure out how to assess them, and then decide if AI fits in that or not.

-Lew Ludwig

Resources

The Science of Learning Meets AI: A Practical Faculty Guide to Purposeful Integration, Student Engagement, and Ethical Practice, by Lewis D. Ludwig & Todd D. Zakrajsek

Lilly Conferences: Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning

Mary-Ann Winkelmes

Transparency in Learning & Teaching (TILT) Higher Education

Backward Design

The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger

Caraway Cookware

Joy Comes Back, by Donna Ashworth, read by Harry Baker

TripIt

The Other Side of the Door, by Jeff Moss

Norma Montague shares of her experiences going from awareness to action, interrupting bias in the classroom on episode 618 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

One thing that my work on inclusive teaching focuses on, is really being able to understand your learner’s motivations.

-Norma Montague

One of the ideas that I learned from a colleague who had recommended a book was the idea of rebranding office hours as student hours.

-Norma Montague

I think it’s important to help students understand what those student hours are for and how they can get the most out of them.

-Norma Montague

When students feel safe in the classroom, then they’re going to contribute, invest. That’s when I find that I can really increase their rigor and challenge them more.

-Norma Montague

Resources

Norma Montague at Wake Forrest University

Episode 425: Inclusive Teaching with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan

Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom, by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain

Mind over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

Tiny Desk Concert: Mumford and Sons

Crucial Tracks

Alan Levine’s Cool Tech RSS Feed

Mix It Up Scratch Off Date Nights

Teddy Svoronos describes how today’s agentic AI changes what and how we teach on episode 617 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

An AI agent is an LLM that runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal.

-Teddy quoting Simon Willison’s definition

The process of having a task, write a report, use a tool, web search, and do it over and over again until you feel like you’ve gotten the full sort of spectrum of things—that I think is what an agent really is.

-Teddy Svoronos

These LLMs are now becoming like this intermediary between me and the actual content. And so I’m optimizing in a different way than I used to.

-Teddy Svoronos

I think there’s an analogy with these tools that I’ve been thinking of as cognitive debt, which is that as you offload to them, there are things that they’ll do that you won’t quite understand.

-Teddy Svoronos

Resources

Agentic Everything: How the latest set of models changes things, by Teddy Svoronos

Course Corrections: Redesigning my course for AI, by Teddy Svoronos

Pray, Mr. Babbage, by Teddy Svoronos

Episode 590: Deep Background – Using AI as a Co-Reasoning Partner with Mike Caulfield

Episode 234: A New Lens for Learning Outcomes with Maria Andersen

José Antonio Bowen’s AI Detector False Positive Calculator

Episode 605: Teaching with AI – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Future with José Bowen

MacWhisper

The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande