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Personal knowledge management revisited

with Dave Stachowiak

| September 24, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni and Dave Stachowiak revisit the topic of personal knowledge management and discuss how our processes have evolved.

Personal knowledge management

Podcast notes

Personal knowledge management revisited

James Lang's article in The Chronicle about Teaching in Higher Ed

Harold Jarche

PKM is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively, and contribute to society. PKM means taking control of your professional development, and staying connected in the network era, whether you are an employee, self-employed, or between jobs.

Seek

  • Twitter
  • Peter Newbury on episode #053
  • Still Feedly and Newsify

Sense

  • Pinboard
  • Newsify to Pinboard
    Email to Pinboard
  • PushPin app
  • Evernote lists (list of potential podcast guests, blog topics, conferences, journals)
  • Getting real about Pocket
  • Instapaper

Share

  • BufferApp
  • Canva
  • Deposit photos
  • Copyright video

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

  • Mid-exam stretch break

Dave recommends:

  • TimeTrade

Closing notes

  1. Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show.
  2. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests.
  3. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Tagged With: pkm, podcast, seek, sense, share

Making challenging subjects fun

with Ainissa Ramirez

| September 17, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Ainissa Ramirez shares about how and why to make challenging subjects fun.

Making challenging subjects fun

Guest: Dr. Ainissa Ramirez

http://www.ainissaramirez.com/bio.html

“I learned that this thing of investigating and being curious around the world was the thing that people called science.” -Ainissa Ramirez

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Early influences

  • The television show 321 contact

 

“By seeing my reflection in this young [African American] lady on television doing science, it gave me permission to say, ‘maybe I should be doing this.’”. -Ainissa Ramirez

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  • Teachers as a big influence

Making learning fun

“When it comes to teaching, I try to come across as approachable.” – Ainissa Ramirez

“I don't think I have the luxury to come off as extremely heady, because there's so much stuff that's going to prevent communication from [happening].” – Ainissa Ramirez

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Service-oriented teaching approach

“I feel like it's my job to get you there. I can't get you there completely, but I can at least figure out where the gaps are and tell you where to head.” – Ainissa Ramirez

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More approaches for making learning fun

  • The importance of a hook
  • Experimentation vs memorization
  • Failure as data collection

“If we think of failures as data collection, they lose their sting.” – Ainissa Ramirez

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Materials research society

DemoWorks (a cook book for materials science experimentation with items you can buy at a local hardware store)

“It's the messy stuff where you learn.” – Ainissa Ramirez

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A call to get musicians involved in the call to make science fun

Adventures in giving a TED talk

Ainissa's TED talk

STEM education advocate via TED blog

“It's vulnerability that people really resonate with… If you're willing to be vulnerable, it is a position of power, because you'll connect with many more people.” – Ainissa Ramirez

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Great videos of Ainissa in action, getting people excited about science

Gina Barnett – Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success  (helps you get out of your way)

Importance of having passion in our teaching

“Get back in touch with that thing that made you excited and then share that with other people. Be a beacon for that.” – Ainissa Ramirez

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Recommendations:

Bonni recommends:

Making invitations to learn (my experimentation with extending Remind this semester)…

Ainissa recommends:

Learn from Einstein – “If you can’t explain it to your Grandmother, you don't understand it.”

Tagged With: fun, passion, podcast, teaching

Teaching lessons from Pixar

with Josh Eyler

| September 9, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Josh Eyler, and Bonni Stachowiak talk about lessons in teaching from Pixar.

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PODCAST NOTES

#065: Teaching lessons from Pixar

Guest:

Dr. Joshua Eyler, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University

  • Former guest on episode #016, Biology, the Brain, and Learning
  • Josh Eyler's Blog
  • Josh Eyler on Twitter

Josh’s Pixar course

  • The hero's journey
  • Loss in children’s media
  • WallE – environmental messages, religious messages/themes

Student-taught teaching, supported by Rice’s Center for Teaching Excellence

Heard on Twitter: Pixar favorites

Brian Croxall – Toy Story 2

@bonni208 @joshua_r_eyler My favorite is probably Toy Story 2.

— Brian Croxall (@briancroxall) September 8, 2015

Shyama – Finding Nemo and The Incredibles

@bonni208 @joshua_r_eyler "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles" are probably my favorites.

— Dr. Shyama R (@MedievalPhDemon) September 8, 2015

Edna Mode

@joshua_r_eyler @bonni208 Edna Mode is my favorite hahaha.

— Dr. Shyama R (@MedievalPhDemon) September 8, 2015

Sandie Morgan

Monsters Inc.

@bonni208 @joshua_r_eyler Pixar FAV is Monsters Inc

— Sandie Morgan (@sandiemorgan) September 8, 2015

Cautionary note

Funny episode of Very Bad Wizards where they discuss the criticisms of the Inside Out movie, when it should have been clear to everyone that the movie wasn’t intended to actually represent how the brain works…

Opportunities to learn from our students are abundant

Finding Nemo

“If we only focus on [our role of imparting wisdom], we miss out on those moments when students can share something with us that opens our eyes to the material in a way we have never seen it before.” – Josh Eyler

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Bonni shared about making assumptions on episode 63

Great teaching begins with a boundless passion for our subject

Ratatouille

Great teaching begins with a boundless passion for our subject

“Passion is sometimes an underrated part of what we do as teachers that can be really effective in reaching our students.” – Josh Eyler

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Gradually reducing coaching helps students learn

Finding Nemo

David Merrill’s advice on instructional design: Instructional guidance should be gradually reduced

“In order to learn anything, we need to confront the failure of faulty knowledge, of faulty mental models. Students aren’t given enough opportunity to do that and when they are, the stakes are way too high for them.” – Josh Eyler

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Mindset matters and so does proximal development

Toy Story

  • Mindset on episode #062 with Rebecca Campbell
  • James Lang on Mindset in The Chronicle
  • More than mindset: Josh’s writing on Vygotsky

“Understanding our intellectual development in more complex terms can help students wrap their minds around the learning process.” – Josh Eyler

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The pursuit of knowledge can be heightened through curiosity

Constructivism

“Curiosity is one of our most deeply rooted mechanisms by which human beings learn.” – Josh Eyler

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“It’s that curiosity – that desire to know – that we need to be cultivating in our classrooms.” Josh Eyler

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The knife that solves the butter problem

spreadthelove

Learning happens everywhere

Up

“The reality is that learning is a very big idea and it happens everywhere.” – Josh Eyler

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“My wife has been very sick for the last year and I’ve learned quite a bit about courage from her. I learn so much from my three year-old daughter about how to tackle life with a toddler’s zeal.” – Josh Eyler

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Bonni recommends:

Josh’s essays:

  • The Grief of Pain (mentioned on Vulnerability in Our Teaching)
  • Just Keep Swimming: A Semester of Teaching Pixar

Josh recommends:

  • The Pixar Theory
  • The Pixar Theory book

Closing notes

  1. Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show.
  2. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests.
  3. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Tagged With: mindset, podcast, teaching

The weekly review

| September 2, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni Stachowiak shares how she improves her productivity through a structured, weekly review.

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Podcast notes

The Weekly Review

Getting Things Done, by David Allen

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. – David Allen

  • Having a system you trust
  • GTD Methodology Guides
  • LifeHacker's guide to the weekly review

GET CLEAR

  • Scannable
  • Inbox zero for all inboxes (physical and electronic)
  • Drafts app
  • Brain dump / sweep

GET CURRENT

  • Review task manager (I use OmniFocus)
  • Review calendar (last week, next 2 weeks)
  • Review Waiting
  • Review Project Lists
  • Review Checklists

GET CREATIVE

  • Review someday/Maybe List
  • Add new projects
  • Refine system

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

Give a weekly review a try for one month… and share how it goes…

Closing notes

  1. Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show.
  2. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests.
  3. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Tagged With: gtd, podcast

Triumphs and failures – Day 1

| August 27, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni Stachowiak shares about the triumphs and failures in her first day of teaching this semester.

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Podcast notes

Triumphs and failures of day 1

  • Thanks for the encouragement on the Terrors of Teaching episode #059
  • Mac Power Users episode on emergency preparedness
  • Content warnings
  • Rick rolls
  • You are an idiot

Failures

Treyvon trip up

  • Race is on my mind
  • Stephen Brookfield – The Skillful Teacher – micro-agressions
  • Peter Newbury on episode #053

Forgotten supplies

  • Planbook

Triumphs

  • Mostly kept pace between three sections of the same class
  • Kept my stuff together – cords, etc. Grid it system worked like a champ
  • Experience what my teaching is like, versus me talking about it (while still explaining while we go)
  • Continually working on just-in-time learning/demonstrations, when possible (tapes, SnagIt)

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

[reminder] Share your own failures and triumphs [/reminder]

Closing notes

  1. Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show.
  2. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests.
  3. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

 

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