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Teaching STEM for Social Impact

with Karina Garbesi & Erik Helgren

| February 28, 2019 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Erik Helgren and Karina Garbesi share about teaching STEM for social impact on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Teaching STEM for Social ImpactEverybody has this hidden desire to want to do something meaningful in the world.
—Karina Garbesi

People want to help you when you’re doing something for somebody else.
—Karina Garbesi

Follow your passions.
—Erik Helgren

Resources Mentioned

  • We Care Solar
  • Derek Bruff on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 71
  • A Time for Telling, by Daniel L. Schwartz and John D. Bransford
  • Energy Sticks
  • YouTube video on the Social Impact Solar Program’s Hoopa Native American Solar Suitcase Workshop, Summer 2018
  • YouTube video interviewing Helgren and Garbesi after the first pilot year in 2015-16
  • The True Cost
  • We Share Solar Program 
  • Transformative sustainability learning: a united pedagogy of head, hands and heart
  • Sunrise Movement

Articles on the Social Impact Solar Program:

  • Dossetti, Krista, Light After Dark, East Bay Today, Article, September 1, 2016.
  • Bloom, Jonathan, Hayward students ‘invention’ will help power schools in Africa, ABC 7 news article and video: February 10, 2017.
  • Fuelner, Natalie, Rising in the East, East Bay Today, Article, pg. 28 – 33, Fall 2016.
  • Moriki, Darin, Hayward: Lighting up the night one solar suitcase at a time, Mercury News, Feb 24, 2017.
  • Fuelner, Natalie, Solar Warriors: Cal State East Bay Solar Suitcase Program partners with Native American tribes, organizations nationwide, East Bay Today.

The Fullness of our Humanity as Teacher and Student

with Terri Jett

| February 21, 2019 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Dr. Terri Jett discusses the fullness of our humanity as a teacher and student on episode 245 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Dr. Terri JettI’m trying to understand what the students are seeking themselves.
—Terri Jett

What I was learning was so deeply personal.
—Terri Jett

Make a statement, even if it’s small.
—Terri Jett

Don’t just sit there and take it — do something about it.
—Terri Jett

Resources Mentioned

  • Student course evaluations
  • Have someone come observe your classes
  • The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics, by Schubert, Dye, and Zeigler*
  • The Gist Podcast: Stop Going Nuclear
  • Episode #217 with Jesse Stommel: How to Ungrade
  • Alice Walker

Create Online Mashups that Ignite Curiosity

with Michael Britt

| February 14, 2019 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Michael Britt describes how to create online mashups that ignite curiosity on episode 244 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

Michael BrittWhat do I want my students to see first?
—Michael Britt

First I want to hear what the students think.
—Michael Britt

Resources Mentioned

  • Michael’s podcast
  • IFTTT
  • Zapier
  • Microsoft Flow 
  • What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain\*
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  • Small Teaching, by James Lang\*
  • ThingLink
  • Customize Youtube Video Start time End Time 
  • PollEverywhere
  • A critical thinking exercise with Koko the Gorilla (uses Wakelet, embedded video and Google Forms)
  • Rubber (tire movie)
  • Google Forms
  • Padlet
  • Wakelet
  • H5P.org
  • CrazyTalk
  • Wordle
  • Visme
  • An online exercise to help students improve their study skills (uses Google Forms, Slides, and Spreadsheets)
  • What did B.F. Skinner Think about Parenting? (A combination of Thinglink, SoundCloud and Wordle)
  • Mental Illness or Demonic Possession? (a mashup of Visme, Vimeo and Google Forms)

The Writer’s Practice

with John Warner

| February 7, 2019 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

John Warner shares about his new book, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing on episode 243 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The Writer’s PracticeStudents came with so many preconceived notions of what an essay was.
—John Warner

The definition of a writer is simply somebody who writes.
—John Warner

There’s no reason not to trust students and their own experience of the world.
—John Warner

Resources Mentioned

  • The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, by John Warner*
  • Episode 172: Values, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Pedagogy
  • Episode 233: Why They Can’t Write
  • Marlene M. Preston at Virginia Tech
  • Clint Smith’s tweet about used books
  • Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, by John Warner*
  • ‘Dreyer’s English’ Is for Everybody, by John Warner on Inside Higher Ed*
  • The author you need to read now: Tressie McMillan Cottom, by John Warner
  • Abebooks – used books

Using Virtual Labs and Immersive Reality to Enhance Student Learning

with Kambiz Hamadani

| January 31, 2019 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Kambiz Hamadani discusses using virtual labs and immersive reality to enhance student learning on episode 242 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Using Virtual Labs and Immersive Reality to Enhance Student LearningFaculty have many more communication lines open to them, and why not use them?
—Kambiz Hamadani

One of the challenges I think we all face … is finding ways to deal with that diversity of background.
—Kambiz Hamadani

You have to very slowly wade into the pool of course redesign.
—Kambiz Hamadani

Resources Mentioned

  • E-portfolio 2016-2017 Course Redesign with Technology for General Biochemistry lecture course using and assessing the impact of Virtual Biochemistry Labs
  • E-portfolio 2017-2018 Course Redesign with Technology for General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry Lecture/Lab course where Dr. Hamadani developed, used, and assessed the impact of combining virtual labs and customized take-home lab kits
  • Recent Nature Outlooks article highlighting use and assessment of virtual biochemistry labs for teaching
  • VoiceThread
  • Webinar put together by Labster, Inc. on usage of their virtual lab tools
  • Video Summary of course redesign of General Biochemistry course using Labster, Inc. Virtual Labs
  • Labster Blog on Hamadani’s use of their virtual lab tools
  • ACS presentation slides detailing my course redesigns
  • Article detailing the remaining divisions between physical and virtual lab technologies and ways to make the best of all possible worlds
  • Bonni’s 2017 Tech Someday/Maybe List
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen

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