John Warner explores stressing pedagogical principles over AI promises on episode 536 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Once they've done the writing or as even as they're doing the writing, they're reflecting on their own metacognitive understanding of their own practices.
-John Warner
While you are in the act of writing, you are processing your own idea.
-John Warner
Andrew Cross and Alyshahn Kara-Virani share about creating interactive experiences and shaping the future of teaching on episode 535 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of play science comes down to being a safe space to learn from each other, to see how people respond to what you put out there in the world without it being this critical life or death situation.
-Andrew Cross
People disproportionately remember experiences based on both the peaks and the valleys, and then also the ending experience.
-Andrew Cross
Encourage students to freely explore the content on their own. Sometimes that's content, sometimes it's a physical space. Turn them loose to go off and find something that they find interesting, a little bit of free choice learning.
-Andrew Cross
Josh Eyler helps us cultivate hope and action beyond grades on episode 534 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting.
-Josh Eyler
We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to really dig in and find ways that the content becomes meaningful to who they are as people.
-Josh Eyler
We're in another period of significant grading reform right now, fueled, I believe, by mass communication and social media. People are now able to connect in ways that in previous eras of grading reform, they were not able to.
-Josh Eyler
Josh Eyler shares even more problems with grades on episode 533 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Being a dad who is an educator takes things from the academic and intellectual and brings them immediately to the surface, to the real world and to the real consequences for students and families.
-Josh Eyler
The conflict between what we think and what we value and what we want for our kids and what the world and our school systems say are important can sometimes be almost irreconcilable.
-Josh Eyler
We need to create environments that will cultivate intrinsic motivation.
-Josh Eyler
In situations where grades are given, students tend to be more fearful of making mistakes. They produce more behaviors of trying to get the grade rather than learning.
-Josh Eyler
Grades are not objective accurate measurements of learning according to this research.
-Josh Eyler
If grades don't measure what they're supposed to measure, why are we using them, and why are we putting so much pressure on them?
-Josh Eyler
Mylien Duong discusses strategies for facilitating contentious conversations in your classroom on episode 532 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We were never really trained to have these difficult conversations. We were not really trained as instructors to facilitate these conversations.
-Mylien Duong
It is not realistic to not prepare our students to be civically engaged and be able to engage and work with people who are different from them who don't share the same beliefs that they do.
-Mylien Duong
My goal is to help students to fully understand students, to help them clarify their own thinking, and to ensure and to help them communicate that to the rest of the class.
-Mylien Duong