Teaching in Higher Ed

When Things Will Just Have to Do

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just have to do

Bonni Stachowiak shares about when things will just have to do on episode 145 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Digital Literacy – Then and Now

with Bryan Alexander

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Digital Literacy

Bryan Alexander shares about digital literacy – then and now – on episode 144 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Most of us were not trained in participatory media, and we haven’t really integrated that into our teaching.
—Bryan Alexanderhttps://teachinginhighered.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=e0b1dd6dc9

A key part of digital literacy in the social age is that it is productive. We make stuff.
—Bryan Alexander

Technical skills are an unavoidable part of digital literacy.
—Bryan Alexander

The way we’ve constructed the mobile experience is often apart from the web.
—Bryan Alexander

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Keeping Evergreen As Professors and Educators

with Teresa Sörö

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professors

Teresa Soro provides ideas on how we can keep evergreen as professors and educators on episode 143 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

No brain is very smart alone.
–Teresa Soro

You go from being the expert to being the one facilitating the learning.
–Teresa Soro

We need to let go of control — it’s their learning.
–Teresa Soro

I can have great thoughts on my own, but they always get better with others.
–Teresa Soro

I think it’s important to be able to allow a little bit more room for mistakes and creativity.
–Teresa Soro

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Rethinking Assessment (and other reflections on the Lilly Conference)

with Dave Stachowiak

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assessment and agency

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about rethinking assessment and other reflections on the Lilly Conference on episode 142 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Curiosity is one of our most deeply rooted mechanisms by which we learn.
–Josh Eyler

These experiences give people a different view of themselves.
–Thia Wolf

We don’t give students opportunities to experience and reflect on how the curriculum is part of them and how they are affecting it.
–Thia Wolf

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The Danger of Silence

with Clint Smith

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The Danger of Silence

Clint Smith warns us of the danger of silence on episode 141 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I was failing to speak up on behalf of issues that didn’t directly affect me, and that caused me a deep amount of shame.
–Clint Smith

What does it look like to be more proactive in being the sort of person that I’m asking my students to be?
–Clint Smith

What is the role and responsibility of someone given access to a platform of potential power and influence?
–Clint Smith

There’s a difference between a sort of silence of complicity and a silence of listening. I think it’s important that we differentiate and disentangle the two.
–Clint Smith

We need to think about the ways in which our identities shape whether or not we should be speaking or listening.
–Clint Smith

The act of empathy and the act of listening … is going to be more important now than ever.
–Clint Smith

I believe deeply in the fact that I am a partner in my students’ academic journey.
–Clint Smith

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The Four Principles:

  • read critically
  • write consciously
  • speak clearly
  • tell your truth

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