Teaching in Higher Ed

Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms

with James Lang

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James Lang reads his piece, Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms, on episode 529 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

In the meantime, the gardens need tending. If you continue to believe in the value of the plants that have always flourished in your garden, keep growing them.

He quits worrying about whether Pangloss or Martin are correct, decides that he and his companions should turn their attention to the immediate work demanded by their current circumstances.
-James Lang

Writing is, number 1, a form of thinking, number 2, that produces learning, and 3, generates new ideas. That was true in 2000, and it's true in 2024.
-James Lang

In the meantime, the gardens need tending. If you continue to believe in the value of the plants that have always flourished in your garden, keep growing them.
-James Lang

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Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

with Jason Lodge

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Jason Lodge discusses assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence on episode 528 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Where does the capability of AI end and where does the impact of the teacher start?

Where does the capability of AI end and where does the impact of the teacher start?
-Jason Lodge

Our tendencies as teachers and the way that we wanted to teach was clashing with the way that the lesson plan had been structured by Chat GPT.
-Jason Lodge

We don't know where we're headed, but at least we can have a sense of what the direction might be.
-Jason Lodge

We have to get to the point where we stop looking for evidence that students are using these tools to cheat and shift our emphasis to looking for evidence that learning has occurred.
-Jason Lodge

It's less about the technology and more about the human, how we learn and how we understand ourselves.
-Jason Lodge

Small things can add up to make a huge difference.
-Jason Lodge

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Beyond Dichotomous Thinking: Strategies to Enhance Teaching and Learning

with Alexis Peirce Caudell

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Alexis Peirce Caudell shares ways we cen go beyond dichtomous thinking: strategies to enhance teaching and learning on episode 527 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It's about being able to sort of think across or beyond those boxes that we normally operate on every day.

It's about being able to sort of think across or beyond those boxes that we normally operate on every day.
-Alexis Peirce Caudell

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Accessible and Affordable Learning Through Open Educational Resources

with Ann Taylor

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Ann Taylor shares ways to offer accessible and affordable learning through open educational resources (OERs) on episode 526 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It's the instructor that's making the difference, that's making the content come alive.

I have been surprised at how some of us don't think about the cost of what we're requiring our students to use.
-Ann Taylor

It's the instructor that's making the difference, that's making the content come alive.
-Ann Taylor

If you're boring face to face and monotone or you just kinda mumble and separate, you're probably not gonna come across great recorded either.
-Ann Taylor

Text first, not video first.
-Ann Taylor

We start with the written word, and then we make sure that anywhere it's gonna make a difference or it's gonna engage the students, we incorporate multimedia pictures and graphics and interactive tools and video and so forth.
-Ann Taylor

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Four Common Arguments Against DEI and How to Dismantle Them

with Amira Barger

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Amira Barger shares four common arguments against DEI and how to dismantle them on episode 525 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

What are you creating so that others can see themselves represented in the spaces they're in with you?

Many people who are at the margins often know from lived experience that the playing field is not level, and that there are biases that leaders and individuals across any and every institution have to mitigate.
-Amira Barger

Many people tend to view the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion as this sort of a 0 sum game. That idea of we're lifting someone else up means you have to push or bring someone else down. And that's not at all what we're trying to do this work.
-Amira Barger

It really is about leveling the playing field. It's not about taking things away, but it's about understanding.
-Amira Barger

What are you creating so that others can see themselves represented in the spaces they're in with you?
-Amira Barger

I try to very intentionally surround myself with people who believe and think differently than I do so that I can understand where they are coming from.
-Amira Barger

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