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The Problem with Grades

with Josh Eyler

| February 17, 2022 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Josh Eyler discusses the problem with grades on episode 401 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.

The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.
-Josh Eyler

The grades are not the end of the story. They are not even the bulk of your story. They are a chapter of your story.
-Josh Eyler

Resources

  • Episode 65 with Josh Eyler: Teaching Lessons from Pixar
  • Episode 231 with Josh Eyler: How Humans Learn
  • How Humans Learn, by Josh Eyler
  • The New Education, by Cathy Davidson
  • David Buck on Twitter
  • Ungrading, an Introduction, by Jesse Stommel
  • Evergreen State College Evaluation

The Heart of a Teacher

with Jeff Hittenberger

| February 10, 2022 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Jeff Hittenberger helps Bonni culminate her 400th episode by talking about the heart of a teacher on episode 400 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together.

I had some assumptions coming into teaching
-Bonni Stachowiak

I never knew how much my textbooks cost.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I care about other people and that I like to make meaningful progress towards a goal, I try to celebrate those parts of me.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I think we are all just continually trying to figure stuff out. Nobody really has it all together.
-Bonni Stachowiak

An episode has aired every single week since June of 2014. That is a kind of discipline I feel grateful for.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources

  • Coaching for Leaders (Dave Stachowiak’s podcast)
  • Episode 230 with Peter Kaufman – Teaching with Compassion
  • Rachel Held Evans
  • Podcast page where you can browse by category
  • Episode 208 – The 208 Backstory (more on Bonni’s journey into teaching)
  • Katie Linder

Satire from McSweeney’s

| February 3, 2022 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni Stachowiak shares some satire from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency on episode 399 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many.

I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources Mentioned

  • How We Will Separate You From Any Lingering Hope and Other Important Topics of Today’s Faculty Meeting, by Julie Cadman-Kim: Shared with permission by McSweeney’s and the author Julie Cadman-Kim
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Daily Humor Almost Every Day Since 1998
  • Prof Michelle Ryan’s tweet re: tl;dr papers website
  • Intramolecular interactions play key role in stabilization of pHLIP at acidic conditions, by Nicolas Frazee and Blake Mertz
  • “Scientists do experiments which are hard to do in real life, but easy to do in a computer. They use a computer program to make the experiment happen inside the computer. Scientists use this process to understand how things work. They use this process to understand how biology works, and how things that we use work.” – the tl/dr version

Pedagogy of the Depressed

with Christopher Schaberg

| January 27, 2022 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Christopher Schaberg talks about his book, Pedagogy of the Depressed, on episode 398 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Just talking to students once or twice a week is so important.

Just talking to students once or twice a week is so important.
-Christopher Schaberg

Resources

  • Satsuma mandarins
  • Pedagogy of the Depressed
  • @ass_deans on Twitter
  • Robin DeRosa’s website
  • The attention economy, by Jenny O’Dell
  • The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay
  • The Hundreds, by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart

Teaching Machines

with Audrey Watters

| January 20, 2022 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Audrey Watters shares about her book, Teaching Machines, on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If we have a better understanding of the history of educational technology, there is hope.

When people try to erase history, they do that to foreclose hope.
-Audrey Watters

If we have a better understanding of the history of educational technology, there is hope.
-Audrey Watters

I do not think that the future is already written.
-Audrey Watters

Resources

  • Teaching Machines, by Audrey Waters
  • B. F. Skinner
  • The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade, by Audrey Watters
  • Edward Thorndike
  • Sal Khan
  • Behaviorism
  • The Teacher Wars, by Dana Goldstein
  • Photo of a Teaching Machine from TMI

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