Teaching in Higher Ed

Myths and Metaphors in the Age of Generative AI

with Leon Furze

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Leon Furze shares about myths and metaphors in the age of generative AI on episode 572 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students, then we have a responsibility to engage with the technology on some level. In order to do that, we need to be using it and and experimenting with it because otherwise, we're relying on third party information, conjecture, and opinions rather than direct experience.

In higher education there is a need to temper the resistance and refusal of the technology with the understanding that students are using it anyway.
-Leon Furze

We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students, then we have a responsibility to engage with the technology on some level. In order to do that, we need to be using it and and experimenting with it because otherwise, we're relying on third party information, conjecture, and opinions rather than direct experience.
-Leon Furze

My use of the technology has really shifted over the last few years the more I think about it as a technology and not as a vehicle for language.
-Leon Furze

Let the English teachers who love English, teach English. Let the mathematics teachers who love math, teach math. Let the science teachers teach science. And where appropriate, bring these technologies in.
-Leon Furze

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Through Joyful Curiosity

with Jackie Shay

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Jackie Shay Shares about overcoming imposter syndrome through joyful curiosity on episode 571 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Why can't we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence?

Sometimes I get in my head about imposter syndrome about being joyful.
-Jackie Shay

Why can't we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence?
-Jackie Shay

It's about supporting the learning by doing meaningful, challenging work that promotes growth, that allows us to find joy in the discomfort that comes from the vulnerability of pushing your mind to its boundaries and beyond.
-Jackie Shay

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How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline

with Laura Gibbs

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Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Meaninglessness in education won't work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful.

I think what happens with a lot of people's efforts to tell stories is that they're staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don't have a form that they're filling up.
-Laura Gibbss

Everybody was thriving with these hundred word stories.
-Laura Gibbss

Meaninglessness in education won't work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful.
-Laura Gibbss

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A Practical Framework for Ethical AI Integration in Assessment

with Mike Perkins & Jasper Roe

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Mike Perkins and Jasper Roe share a practical framework for ethical AI integration in assessment on episode 569 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Criticality and pessimism aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models.


We wanted to be flexible and have some opportunities for students and faculty to really have open conversations about how AI might be suitably used given the individual circumstances and the cultural context.
-Mike Perkins

One of the things that is happening that we can't deny is that the rate of hallucinations is going down. The capabilities are getting better and better.
-Jasper Roe

Criticality and pessimism aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models.
-Jasper Roe

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Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI

with Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger

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Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger discuss The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI on episode 568 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You can treat people with dignity and respect even as you’re calling out their mistake. You can challenge them while being respectful.

It is true that people cheat, and that's the reason we have rules in the first place in our lives.
-David Rettinger

There are always going to be social, personal, and individual pressures on us that cause us to do things that either we didn't realize were wrong, or that we perfectly well know that are wrong, but that in that moment seem like a reasonable trade off to our behavior.
-David Rettinger

Take care of yourself first, whatever that looks like. You're never going to help somebody else if you're not on firm ground yourself.
-David Rettinger

You can treat people with dignity and respect even as you’re calling out their mistake. You can challenge them while being respectful.
-Tricia Bertram Gallant

It is important for us to remember to give grace to ourselves.
-Tricia Bertram Gallant

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