Teaching in Higher Ed

How to Keep Our Brains Sharp

with Therese Huston

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Therese Huston shares about Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science on episode 567 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you're having to pay attention to and you're switching between each one.

As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you're having to pay attention to and you're switching between each one.
-Therese Huston

The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine in your ventral striatum, so you feel a sense of reward.
-Therese Huston

Visualizing the process actually increases productivity. The neuroscience shows that you see five times more brain areas activated when you picture the process than when you picture a glorious outcome.
-Therese Huston

If you do just a 5 minute meditation right before you need to recall something, you can get up to a 75% improvement in your recall.
-Therese Huston

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Joy-Centered Pedagogy

with Eileen Camfield

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Eileen Camfield shares about Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 566 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Joy is a renewable resource because it does not get depleted.

I want to encourage folks to think about how vigor can go alongside rigor.
-Eileen Camfield

We really feel healed. We really feel like our suffering does not have to define us anymore.
-Eileen Camfield

Joy is a renewable resource because it does not get depleted.
-Eileen Camfield

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Embracing Anger to Find Joyful Agency

with Jamie Moore

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Jamie Moore shares about embracing anger to find joyful agency on episode 565 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Are you a living realization of your values and beliefs?

I was told that that if I showed emotion I would be seen as vulnerable, and my students would be ready to pounce on that vulnerability.
-Jamie Moore

Invisible agreements shadow our classroom interactions and curriculum, capping the potential for connection, feeling, and joy in community with each other.
-Jamie Moore

My favorite thing is learning with my students and humanizing myself.
-Jamie Moore

Are you a living realization of your values and beliefs?
-Jamie Moore

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How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

with John Warner

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John Warner shares about his latest book, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI on episode 564 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If we treat the output of large language models as writing, as opposed to syntax generation, which is how I characterize it, then we're allowing the meaning of writing and the experience of writing to be degraded for humans.

If we treat the output of large language models as writing, as opposed to syntax generation, which is how I characterize it, then we're allowing the meaning of writing and the experience of writing to be degraded for humans.
-John Warner

Clearly, this is not feedback that is unique to human beings and unique to how we read.
-John Warner

There is no pivot for humanity. We're going to be humans whether we like it or not, and we are going to live our life through a series of experiences which convey some manner of meaning to ourselves. We still have to live. We still have to have a day to day experience of the world. We still have to have access to our own minds. We still have to relate to other people. This is the stuff of being human.
-John Warner

Every human is a unique intelligence. Developing a unique intelligence is a work of teaching and learning. And honoring that is the highest calling of a teacher.
-John Warner

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Defy – The Power of Saying No in a World That Demands Yes

with Sunita Sah

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Dr. Sunita Sah discusses her book, Defy: The Power of Saying No in a World That Demands Yes on episode 563 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

To defy is simply to act in accordance with your true values when there's pressure to do otherwise.

Defiance is a practice, not a personality.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

Defiance is a skill that's available and necessary for all of us to use.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

For many of us, the distance between who we think we are and what we actually do is enormous.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

To defy is simply to act in accordance with your true values when there's pressure to do otherwise.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

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