Teaching in Higher Ed

Talking to students about vocation

with Tim Clydesdale

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Talking to Students about Vocation

Tim Clydesdale talks about how we can all better support our students in navigating college and beyond by talking about vocation.

Quotes

[Vocation] is about the type of life you want to lead and the type of person you want to be.
—Tim Clydesdale

It may be that the broader sense of who you are isn’t being fully expressed in your work but it’s being expressed in many other places: in your volunteer work, or your care for a family member.
—Tim Clydesdale

Vocation is a much better way to talk to students [than career] because it captures much more of the breadth of life as it’s really lived.
—Tim Clydesdale

Resources

What are some of the mistakes universities make when attempting to develop effective programs to facilitate more conversation about vocation?

  1. Design a program that wasn’t organic to the campus
  2. Hiring people who didn’t have a high emotional intelligence

Recommendations

Bonni:

  • Keep a list of ideas for each class you have been scheduled to teach.

Tim:

  • Good food helps with conversation. Use a slow cooker (Crock-Pot) with a manual switch. This allows you to cook but also be engaged in conversation.

Practical program development

with Doug Grove

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Practical Program Development

Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students.

Quotes

We see a lot of benefits of synchronous class sessions, but we’re not sure every student wants that. There’s a tradeoff with flexibility.
-Doug Grove

One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all students.
-Doug Grove

Every program is a little different. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made was we just took our existing structure and placed it on any new program.
-Doug Grove

Education Technology Tools

Recommendations

Bonni:

  • Batch processing on the computer. Do “like work” all at one time.

Doug:

The ethics of plagiarism detection

with Stephanie Vie

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Stephanie Vie discusses the ethical considerations of using Turnitin and other automatic plagiarism checkers.

Ethical Considerations of Using Turnitin

Guest: Stephanie Vie

twitter: @digiret
email: Stephanie.Vie@ucf.edu
Academia: https://ucf.academia.edu/StephanieVie

Stephanie Vie researches the construction of digital identities in social media spaces  as well as critical approaches to composing technologies such as plagiarism detection services. Her research has appeared in First Monday; Computers and Composition; Computers and Composition Online; Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; and The Community Literacy Journal.

She is a Reviews Section Co-editor with Kairos; a Project Director with the Computers and Composition Digital Press; and an editorial board member of the undergraduate research journal Young Scholars in Writing.

Her doctorate from the University of Arizona (2007) is in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, and her dissertation, “Engaging Others in Online Social Networking Sites: Rhetorical Practices in MySpace and Facebook,” examined the use of privacy settings in these sites within a Foucauldian framework. More

Quote

The more moments you can take from an active, engaged classroom and bring them into your assignments, that’s going to significantly help reduce plagiarism.
-Stephanie Vie

Recommendations

Bonni:

  • Go for a walk. It’s easy to forget how great it feels walk.

Stephanie:

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International Higher Education in the 21st Century

with Mary Gene Saudelli

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International Higher Education in the 21st Century

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli about developing curriculum for international higher education in the 21st Century.

Guest: Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli

Author, The Balancing Act:  International Higher Education in the 21st Century*

LinkedIn
Book on Amazon*

Mary Gene is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary in Quatar. More

Quote:

I create a situation where I ask my students to think about things from multiple perspectives, but also allow their voices to be honored.
–Mary Gene Saudelli

How Dubai has Changed

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Recommendations

Bonni:
Book: Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes* by William Bridges
Book: The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments* by William Bridges

Mary Gene:
In difficult circumstances, stop to consider your own thoughts: When you have extreme positions, does that extreme thought mirror who you want to be as a person and what you want to believe?

The potential impact of stereotype threat

with Robin Paige

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On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Robin Paige about the potential impact of stereotype threat inside and outside of our classrooms.

Stereotype Threat

Quote

When dealing with stereotypes, one of the things we can do on our campuses or in our classrooms is create a space of accountability but without saying “You’re a bad person for thinking that.”
—Robin Paige

Resources

Academic Paper by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson: Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans

Recommendations

Bonni:
Podcast: This American Life episode 573: Status Update
Book: Between the World and Me* by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Course: 5 days to your best year ever course with Michael Hyatt*

Robin:
Book: Whistling Vivaldi* by Claude Steele
Blog: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
Tip: Use food to create a stereotype-safe environment because it becomes a thing people have in common.