Dave Stachowiak joins Bonni in remembering Ken Bain on episode 594 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Ken Bain was such good company to me and to countless people from around the world.
-Bonni Stachowiak
While I didn't ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I'm so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he's inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversation that was really needed.
-Dave Stachowiak
Resources
Post: James Lang Shares About Ken Bain’s Passing
Obituary of Kenneth R. Bain
Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do with Ken Bain
Episode 100: The Failure Episode
Episode 146: James Lang and Ken Bain on Motivation in the Classroom
Johannes Haushofer CV of Failures
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain
What the Best College Students Do, by Ken Bain
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Analog Inspiration: Human Centered AI in the Classroom with Carter Moulton
Carter Moulton shares about his Analog Inspiration (AI) card deck and human centered AI in the classroom on episode 593 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I'm here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game.
-Carter Moulton
I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each other and wrestle with these moral and ethical questions.
-Carter Moulton
Those three questions underneath at the bottom of the card are really just trying to foster that critical thinking with students about what it is they're making and what it is they're doing and how they're engaging with AI.
-Carter Moulton
I hope we don't abandon the decades of research that has shown the benefits of peer learning, of caring, belonging, and relationships in the classroom.
-Carter Moulton
Resources
Analog Inspiration Card Deck
How to Play
Free Google Sheet for Discussions
Buy - Analog Inspiration Card Deck
Analog Inspiration Project Overview
Bonni’s Analog Inspiration Unboxing Video (YouTube)
Bonni awkwardly tries to mention HAL 9000 and WarGames and just clearly wasn’t ready for the moment 🤦♀️
Episode 585: Toward Socially Just Teaching Across Disciplines with Bryan Dewsbury
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier by David Yeager
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick
Donna H. Hicks - Dignity Researcher
Anna Mills’ PAIRR Resources
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
Human in the Loop (Wikipedia)
Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Learning Curve Podcast: What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? Hosted by Jeff Young with guests Paul LeBlanc and Maha Bali
Tolu Noah
Custom Playing Cards
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day, by Dan Nott
TiHE Recommendations Page
Cooking with Vegetables by Jessie Jenkins
First Generation, by Frankie Gaw
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Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley
Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people's motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley
Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley
Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley
Resources
Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act
Sway.AI
Barbara Oakley – Coursera Instructor Profile
Learning How to Learn
Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models
Barbara Oakley’s Website
Barbara Oakley – Wikipedia
Academy of Ideas: The Hidden Neuroscience of Democracy
A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley
Retrieval Practice (retrievalpractice.org)
Obsidian
How and Why I Use Obsidian, by Robert Talbert
SmarterHumans.ai
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Rethinking Student Attendance Policies for Deeper Engagement and Learning
Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There's a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class.
-Danny Oppenheimer
You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they attend. But they also hate you, and they hate the subject and they hate everything to do with the class.
-Danny Oppenheimer
If you give people choices, sometimes they make bad choices. Scaffolding choices can help people make choices that actually align with their preferences more effectively.
-Danny Oppenheimer
Students love being treated like adults. They love having choice. Everybody loves having choice. People don't like other people telling them what to do.
-Danny Oppenheimer
In some sense students have a preference to attend class. And in some sense they have a preference to not attend class. Those preferences can coexist in some way.
-Simon Cullen
Resources
Choosing to learn: The importance of student autonomy in higher education, by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer
Are we overlooking the power of autonomy when it comes to motivating students? by Danny Oppenheimer
Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly, by Daniel M. Oppenheimer
Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act
Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, by Alfie Kohn
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution, by Richard Wrangham
Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality, by T.N. Eyer
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Deep Background: Using AI as a Co-Reasoning Partner with Mike Caulfield
Mike Caulfield shares about using AI as a co-reasoning partner and his Deep Background tool on episode 590 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems.
-Mike Caulfield
AI doesn't naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It's a little bit of a bolt on afterthought.
-Mike Caulfield
Searching for information is a journey. How can we get the benefits of AI but still preserve that feeling of a journey?
-Mike Caulfield
I’m working on this issue of follow ups with AI. It is magic to get students to think of these responses as not a single transaction. They're coaching the AI through a process, not to get a specific answer that they want, but to look at the sorts of sources that matter for the question.
-Mike Caulfield
Resources
Deep Background: A “Superprompt” to change the way you use LLMs
Reading the Room with SIFT Toolbox
New SIFT Toolbox Release (Substack)
SIFT Method (The Four Moves)
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
Interview with Mike Caulfield on Deep Background (AACE Review)
Is the LLM Response Wrong, or Have You Just Failed to Iterate It, by Mike Caulfield
Episode 492: Verified with Mike Caulfield on Teaching in Higher Ed
Starlight Bowl in San Diego
Sound of Music
“Everything Could Have Been a Huge Disaster”: Nathan Fielder on Making ‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2
It Runs Through Me, Tom Misch (feat. De La Soul)
Tom Misch: Tiny Desk Concert
Me Myself and I, De La Soul (1989)
The Magic Number, De La Soul (1989)
Reasonable People with Tom Stafford
Pétanque
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