Teaching in Higher Ed

Back to school prep

with Sandie Morgan

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It can be stressful to head back into another year of teaching in higher ed. However, there certainly are actions we can take to make our experience more peaceful and be more present for our students as we get our new academic year underway.

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Our foci for the Fall

Sandie and I share about where we are focused for the start to our academic year. We both have very different roles at the university, but share a desire for continually wanting to improve our students' learning experiences in our classes. We talk about the technology tools we will be using to support our work this year, along with other ways we will seek to facilitate learning more effectively.

Updates to classes

Technology-using professors on LinkedIn

Cheating Lessons, by James Lang

Attendance 2 iPhone app

Remind

Check list for class planning

Grant Wiggin's checklist resources

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Asana

Recommendations

Camscanner app, which connects with Evernote (Sandie)

Evernote‘s use in giving students feedback on their resumes (Bonni)

The End

Ending Human Trafficking podcast

Free ebook: Educational Technology Essentials

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Developing 21st Century skills

with Jeff Hittenberger

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It is going to take creative collaboration to better equip college students to develop 21st century skills. My guest, Jeff Hittenberger, has worked in higher ed, K-12; in the U.S. and abroad; and as a teacher and as an administrator. His unique perspective helps us think about how to prepare our students in higher ed for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities.

Inspiration from childhood in Haiti

Learned from experiences growing up in Haiti.
Most common response to the question: “What's up?”
“I'm on fire.”
Regardless of what kind of adversity you are facing, you are alive, and you have something to say.

21st Century Skills

What does higher education have to learn from what's happening in K-12, as we all work to develop 21st century skills?

Disconnect between higher ed and K-12

Communication that one might anticipate happening between these educational bodies doesn't happen. Can lead to gaps in students' educational experiences. 21st century skills gives us one way to talk about what we have in common.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Resources for educators

4 competency areas, referred to as the 4Cs

PIMCO partnership

Carnegie hour

Lipscombe – competency-based higher education

Critical thinking and problem solving

Important for faculty to discover where there are differences in how they gauge critical thinking and develop ways to assess it in similar ways

Creativity

SmartBoards being used to teach physics

“He who opens a school door closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo

The maker movement

TED Talk: Thomas Suarez – 12-year-old app developer

Communication

How can we tap into the passions of our students and engage them?

Why Do Americans Stink At Math by Elizabeth Green in the New York Times

Collaboration

How the increase in technological capabilities is changing our ability to collaborate

Character

As parents of a college-age daughter, Jeff and his wife care more about who their daughter becomes as a person, in terms of her character, than they do about the knowledge she is gaining. Answering: “Who am I? Who am I becoming? What am I contributing to the world?”

Recommendations

Cheating Lessons, by James Lang (Bonni)

21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times, by Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel (Jeff)

Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century, by The Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills (Jeff)

Academic personal knowledge management workflow

with Crystal Renfro

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Librarians can be such a wonderful resource to us as faculty. Today's guests are Georgia Tech Academic Librarians: Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro. They  have been a tremendous help to me – and I've never even met them in person. Call it a testament to the power of academic personal knowledge management…

Episode 9: Academic personal knowledge management

These are the notes from our dialog together about academic personal knowledge management for academic researchers and librarians.

Podcast notes

Guests

Crystal Renfro

Mary Axford

The comments made by Crystal and Mary during the podcast are their own opinions and do not represent those of Georgia Tech.

Academic personal knowledge management

Our recent PKM discoveries

PKM Foundations

  • Compares it to a Trapper Keeper folder; Ways of organizing information (Crystal)
  • First discovery of PKM was from a colleague at Georgia Tech, Elizabeth Shields (Mary)
  • Loves using Evernote: Helped her accomplish a move a few years back in a very short time (Mary)

Academic databases and PKM

How the databases have kept up, as well as how the researchers have kept up with the new features (Crystal)

It's very individual. What works for one person may not work for someone else.

Be sure that you don't let the ‘doing the tool' well become more the goal versus achieving your purpose with the tool. (Crystal)

Recommendations

ProfHacker  |  GradHacker  |  Catherine Pope's The Digital Researcher  (Mary)

Tweet about the random sandwich generator from Dan Szymborski (Bonni)

ScoopIt : Robin Good's Scoop.it sites on content curation (Crystal)

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Workflow show – Personal knowledge management tools

with Dave Stachowiak

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Enough with the hypothetical. Now we share what tools we use in our personal knowledge management systems.

Podcast notes

This episode walks through each of the phases of a personal knowledge management system and the tools we each use for each step.

Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.

 

 

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Personal knowledge management definition

“Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud.” – Harold Jarche

Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche

Bonni's online PKM modules

Framework

Bonni and Dave describe what tools we use in each of the stages of personal knowledge management.

Seek – capture

Feedly

Newsify

Mr. Reader

Unread

Podcasts

Follow Dave on Twitter

Follow Bonni on Twitter

Subscribe to Bonni's Twitter lists

RSS

NextDraft: The day's most fascinating news

Audible

Drafts

Sense – curate

Dave's Pinboard

Bonni's Delicious

Evernote

Share – create

WordPress.com – free blog, good place to get started, but for most customization, you will want a self-hosted WordPress site

20 minute tutorial by Michael Hyatt on how to start your own self-hosted WordPress blog / website

Twitter

LinkedIn

Facebook

Recommendations

TextExpander (Dave)

Breevy (Bonni)

Feedback

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Personal knowledge mastery

with Dave Stachowiak

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Personal knowledge management and mastery. How to capture information, curate it, and create new knowledge from it. It can be so challenging to keep up with everything we have on our plates, let alone to what's happening in the world and in areas that are most important to us.

Podcast notes

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

This episode introduces the terms personal knowledge mastery and management.

Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.

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Personal mastery

“Personal mastery is a discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.” -Peter Senge

Personal knowledge management

Harold Jarche's PKM resources

Harold Jarche's introductory video

Personal knowledge mastery

Skills for 2020

KickStarter campaigns

StorkStand

Potato salad

Framework

Seek – capture

Sense – curate

Share – create

Definition

“Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud.” – Harold Jarche

Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche

Bonni's online PKM modules: 

1. Introduction to PKM

2. PKM demo (the actual tools I use in my PKM process)

3. PKM for academics

Recommendations

Practical Typography by Butterick (Dave)

Dave Pell's NextDraft – The day's most fascinating news (Bonni)

Feedback

On this episode: https://teachinginhighered.com/7

Comments, questions, or feedback:  https://teachinginhighered.com/feedback