John Warner shares about values, interdisciplinary knowledge, and pedagogy on episode 172 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I realized I could make choices consistent with what I think is important.
—John Warner

What we think is best is highly dependent on our values.
—John Warner

Attention by itself is not a function of learning.
—John Warner

The classroom belongs to the student as much as the instructor.
—John Warner

Resources Mentioned

• Chicago Tribune’s Biblioracle
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• My “Last” Class by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• I Miss Teaching by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• Moving Students Away From Their Phones by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• The False God of Attention by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• Considering Student Silences by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• Teaching Sentences, Not “Grammar” by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
• The Invitation by Bonni Stachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other* by Sherry Turkle

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Cathy Davidson shares about her book, A New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux on episode 169 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We’ve divided things up into very strange and restrictive categories in a world where those categories are completely merged and mixed and changing every minute.
—Cathy N. Davidson

Every generation has some new technology which we’re convinced is going to destroy us.
—Cathy N. Davidson

I believe in being skeptical about technology and therefore learning how to use it well.
—Cathy N. Davidson

Resources

• The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson*
• How a Class Becomes a Community: Theory, Method, Examples (Cathy shares about class constitutions)
• Quizlet
• More or Less Technology in the Classroom? We're Asking the Wrong Question, by Cathy Davidson in FastCompany
• Revolutionizing the University for the Digital Era, by Michael Roth in The Washington Post
• An Educator Makes the Case that Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up, by Craig Calhoun
• Design Learning Outcomes to Change the World, by Cathy N. Davidson
• American Colleges Will Fail Kids Without These Five Crucial Upgrades, by Pamela Swyn Kripke

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