Teaching in Higher Ed

• Learning to Teach, Design, and Rest From Nature

  Karen Costa describes learning to teach, design, and rest on episode 578 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Gardening is something I've tried and failed at many times. I don't know if it's something you can win or fail at. -Karen Costa There's a ton of research on our mental health and well being and what green spaces can do for us. -Karen Costa The mindset is learning from nature rather than learning about nature. -Karen Costa Nature is really, really good at resting. -Karen Costa Resilience is born of rest, of hibernating, of knowing that we've got to kind of go down into the ground, into the earth, in those seasons of quiet and peace in order to begin again and rejuvenate. -Karen Costa Diversity is the foundation of life. Diversity is strength. -Karen Costa Resources Biomimicry Checklist Karen’s Final Biomimicry Presentation Biomimicry Life’s Principles The Native Plant Trust Kerry Mandalak on Teaching in Higher Ed Biomimicry – Janine Benyus Learn Biomimicry Rest Is Resistance Lead Through Strengths The Residence  acoustic-ish: an album…ish Yes to religion freedom; No to Christian nationalism, by Jeff Hittenberger The OpEd Project

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• 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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