Teaching in Higher Ed

From Awareness to Action: Interrupting Bias in the Classroom

with Norma Montague

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Norma Montague shares of her experiences going from awareness to action, interrupting bias in the classroom on episode 618 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

When students feel safe in the classroom, then they're going to contribute, invest. That's when I find that I can really increase their rigor and challenge them more.

One thing that my work on inclusive teaching focuses on, is really being able to understand your learner's motivations.
-Norma Montague

One of the ideas that I learned from a colleague who had recommended a book was the idea of rebranding office hours as student hours.
-Norma Montague

I think it's important to help students understand what those student hours are for and how they can get the most out of them.
-Norma Montague

When students feel safe in the classroom, then they're going to contribute, invest. That's when I find that I can really increase their rigor and challenge them more.
-Norma Montague

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How Today’s Agentic AI Changes What and How We Teach with Teddy Svoronos

with Teddy Svoronos

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Teddy Svoronos describes how today’s agentic AI changes what and how we teach on episode 617 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think there's an analogy with these tools that I've been thinking of as cognitive debt, which is that as you offload to them, there are things that they'll do that you won't quite understand.

An AI agent is an LLM that runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal.
-Teddy quoting Simon Willison's definition

The process of having a task, write a report, use a tool, web search, and do it over and over again until you feel like you've gotten the full sort of spectrum of things—that I think is what an agent really is.
-Teddy Svoronos

These LLMs are now becoming like this intermediary between me and the actual content. And so I'm optimizing in a different way than I used to.
-Teddy Svoronos

I think there's an analogy with these tools that I've been thinking of as cognitive debt, which is that as you offload to them, there are things that they'll do that you won't quite understand.
-Teddy Svoronos

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(Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

with Nancy Chick, Katarina Mårtensson & Peter Felten

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Nancy Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson share about The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on episode 616 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.

We see SOTL as simply inquiry into teaching and learning for the purposes of improving teaching and learning in context and then contributing to what we know about teaching and learning in support of the broader aims of higher education.
-Nancy Chick

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.
-Katarina Mårtensson

I can't go through this book and say who wrote this sentence or this section or whose idea this part was, because it really is a product of the three of us.
-Peter Felten

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Being Kind to Our Future Selves with Matthew Mahavongtrakul

with Matthew Mahavongtrakul

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Matthew Mahavongtrakul and Bonni Stachowiak have a conversation about being kind to our future selves on episode 615 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention.

Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention.
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Once you are comfortable with your system and you're iterating, it actually starts to become second nature, not only to professional life, but to personal life as well.
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

An exercise that I did with my supervisor once was to actually go through each of these tasks and to see what I thought was high priority, was it actually high priority for the job that I was in?
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

 

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Keeping Your PKM Real Simple with RSS

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Bonni Stachowiak shares how to keep your Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) real simple with RSS on episode 614 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It's pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they've subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.

Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it's going to be to keep up, I don't have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It's pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they've subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It's amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information,  we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we've piqued their curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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