Teaching in Higher Ed

How to Foster Self-Compassion as a Professor

with Danielle De La Mare

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Danielle De La Mare shares how to foster self compassion as a professor on episode 519 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Don't say yes if it's not something that really speaks to you, if it's not really a deeper sort of desire of yours.

And I worked way, way, way, way, way harder than I should have because I thought that if I didn't work hard, people would see that I wasn't worthy of being their teacher.
-Danielle De La Mare

Let's just take a second and really feel all the pain that you've been feeling. And put your hands over your heart.
-Danielle De La Mare

Don't say yes if it's not something that really speaks to you, if it's not really a deeper sort of desire of yours.
-Danielle De La Mare

What is it like to be me? Do I even know right now?
-Danielle De La Mare

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Teaching with AI

with Jose Bowen

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José Bowen shares about Teaching with AI on episode 518 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

There are different things that AI can do to help us with student learning.

The technology changed the standard that we accept.
-José Bowen

There's a huge equity issue here, but there's also an opportunity to raise standards.
-José Bowen

There are different things that AI can do to help us with student learning.
-José Bowen

AI has the capability to increase our ability to have relationships with students by taking away some of the other kinds of tedious things.
-José Bowen

Integrity is a universal value.
-José Bowen

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Thinking with and About AI

with C. Edward Watson

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C. Edward Watson talks about thinking with and about AI on episode 517 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Where will things be 2 and a half years? And how do you prepare students for that world that's rapidly evolving?

Where will things be 2 and a half years? And how do you prepare students for that world that's rapidly evolving?
-Eddie Watson

You must use AI as a starting point in the real world.
-Eddie Watson

Even the best tool on the market says that it gets it wrong one out of 20 times. You know, there's a false positive. It'll accuse a student of cheating who did not cheat with AI. And that's the best in show tool.
-Eddie Watson

There are so many ethical concerns within this space just around AI detection.
-Eddie Watson

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Presence in the Online World

with Karen Robert & Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas

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Karen Robert + Aga Palalas share about their co-edited book, Presence in the Online World, a Contemplative Perspective and Practice for Educators, on episode 516 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Practices take practice.

This practice really focuses on the beautiful part of us, which is compassion.
-Aga Palalas

What is my intention? Why am I here right now?
-Aga Palalas

Practices take practice.
-Karen Robert

Come back to yourself.
-Karen Robert

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Faculty’s Role in Student Success

with Jody Greene

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Jody Greene discusses faculty’s role in student success on episode 515 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

"We know that there are so many other important elements to students' success, their well-being, their thriving, their career pathways, their ability to pursue interests and curiosities, their engagement, their activism, and all of these multiple measures." ~ Jody Greene

The special power of literature comes from that capacity to have one foot in the factual or the real and one foot in the imagination or the fictional.
-Jody Greene

We know that there are so many other important elements to students' success, their well-being, their thriving, their career pathways, their ability to pursue interests and curiosities, their engagement, their activism, and all of these multiple measures.
-Jody Greene

I think people care about what the institution has told them they need to care about.
-Jody Greene

I don't think we should have expectations based on people's gender in a classroom.
-Jody Greene

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