Teaching in Higher Ed

How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline

with Laura Gibbs

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Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Meaninglessness in education won't work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful.

I think what happens with a lot of people's efforts to tell stories is that they're staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don't have a form that they're filling up.
-Laura Gibbss

Everybody was thriving with these hundred word stories.
-Laura Gibbss

Meaninglessness in education won't work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful.
-Laura Gibbss

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A Practical Framework for Ethical AI Integration in Assessment

with Mike Perkins & Jasper Roe

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Mike Perkins and Jasper Roe share a practical framework for ethical AI integration in assessment on episode 569 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Criticality and pessimism aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models.


We wanted to be flexible and have some opportunities for students and faculty to really have open conversations about how AI might be suitably used given the individual circumstances and the cultural context.
-Mike Perkins

One of the things that is happening that we can't deny is that the rate of hallucinations is going down. The capabilities are getting better and better.
-Jasper Roe

Criticality and pessimism aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models.
-Jasper Roe

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Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI

with Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger

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Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger discuss The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI on episode 568 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You can treat people with dignity and respect even as you’re calling out their mistake. You can challenge them while being respectful.

It is true that people cheat, and that's the reason we have rules in the first place in our lives.
-David Rettinger

There are always going to be social, personal, and individual pressures on us that cause us to do things that either we didn't realize were wrong, or that we perfectly well know that are wrong, but that in that moment seem like a reasonable trade off to our behavior.
-David Rettinger

Take care of yourself first, whatever that looks like. You're never going to help somebody else if you're not on firm ground yourself.
-David Rettinger

You can treat people with dignity and respect even as you’re calling out their mistake. You can challenge them while being respectful.
-Tricia Bertram Gallant

It is important for us to remember to give grace to ourselves.
-Tricia Bertram Gallant

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How to Keep Our Brains Sharp

with Therese Huston

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Therese Huston shares about Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science on episode 567 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you're having to pay attention to and you're switching between each one.

As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you're having to pay attention to and you're switching between each one.
-Therese Huston

The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine in your ventral striatum, so you feel a sense of reward.
-Therese Huston

Visualizing the process actually increases productivity. The neuroscience shows that you see five times more brain areas activated when you picture the process than when you picture a glorious outcome.
-Therese Huston

If you do just a 5 minute meditation right before you need to recall something, you can get up to a 75% improvement in your recall.
-Therese Huston

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Joy-Centered Pedagogy

with Eileen Camfield

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Eileen Camfield shares about Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 566 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Joy is a renewable resource because it does not get depleted.

I want to encourage folks to think about how vigor can go alongside rigor.
-Eileen Camfield

We really feel healed. We really feel like our suffering does not have to define us anymore.
-Eileen Camfield

Joy is a renewable resource because it does not get depleted.
-Eileen Camfield

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