Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni Stachowiak shares how to keep your Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) real simple with RSS on episode 614 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it’s going to be to keep up, I don’t have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication.

-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they’ve subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.

-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information,  we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we’ve piqued their curiosity.

-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources

Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, by Bonni Stachowiak

Real Simple Syndication, by Harold Jarche

Inoreader

Unread App

The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, by Alan Levine (aka CogDog)

RSS in Plain English, by Common Craft

MiniRoll

This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder

The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing

NASA Image of the Day

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Poll Everywhere

Marc Watkins shares about cultivating skepticism and curiosity in an age of AI on Episode 613 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I do think online education is going to be the focal point for this next year, and how it can survive with an agentic AI. My feeling is, we need to be offering students more embodied experiences and disembodied spaces.

-Marc Watkins

Every technology has its affordances and the things that are negative about it too; your cell phone, the computer, the fact we’re talking about this right now on the systems that we are using, cloud computing, that all has a cost.

-Marc Watkins

For an incoming freshman student in college to take 4 or 5 classes and have 4 or 5 very different AI policies, 4 or 5 very different understandings of what AI is, it is incredibly confusing.

-Marc Watkins

Resources

Sesame Street: One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others)

What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide: Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not, by Marc Watkins

Working with AI is more Mindset than Skill, by Marc Watkins

Civics of Technology’s Privacy Week Resources

The Opposite of Cheating

The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing, by Anna Mills, Jon Ippolito, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Annette Vee, Marc Watkins

Lynn Meade uncovers how to make learning visible with portfolios on episode 612 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

An ePortfolio is basically a curated collection of student work. It includes reflection, and it’s usually across the college experience.

-Lynn Meade

Anytime I teach portfolios, it’s really big that we talk about audience and purpose. Who is your audience and what is your purpose?

-Lynn Meade

There’s something particularly lovely about seeing student or faculty members’ written comments about my work. Both the critiques and those comments that build me up, and how very powerful they are, and how much they mean to me.

-Lynn Meade

It’s not about the tech. The most important thing is, am I writing? Am I able to think about myself? Am I able to reflect about myself?

-Lynn Meade

Resources

Building a Professional Portfolio (OER Book) by Lynn Meade

University of Arkansas Student Portfolios (portfolio.uark.edu)

Award-Winning ePortfolios Highlight Student Talent and Career Readiness

Fulbright College Team Outlines ePortfolio Initiative

Multiple New U of A ePortfolio Resources Available for Students and Faculty

Beyond a Resume, Part One: ePortfolios in Higher Ed (podcast)

Beyond a Resume, Part Two: ePortfolios in Higher Ed (podcast)

ePortfolios Overview (AAC&U ePortfolios Topic Page)

Poll Everywhere

Reese W. is Here to Boost My Writing Career, by John Warner

The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns

Nancy Duarte on LinkedIn

Video on Box Breathing

Danny Mann shares about fostering peace, joy, and community in teaching and leading on episode 611 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Great teaching, and I think great life, is this adaptive, responsive thing, pulling out the bugs or getting things back in balance.

-Danny Mann

Peace and joy are really interrelated, and I gravitated a lot towards these, as I spent time studying and practicing mindfulness practices.

-Danny Mann

If you discover your why, you could basically feel much more energized and joyful about what you do, if you align your life with that.

-Danny Mann

Giving students space to speak and share ups and downs. So the ironic leading by listening.

-Danny Mann

Resources

University of California Irvine’s Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation

Find Your Why, by Simon Sinek

How to Debug Your Life, by JA Westenberg

Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Pedagogical Wellness | UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz

How to Debug Your Life, by JA Westenberg

Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Mike Cross shares about his experiments (big and small) in teaching and learning on episode 610 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The reason I did it is because I just wanted to better understand what my students were going through.

-Mike Cross

I love that, that idea of tiny experiments. I think that that is absolutely critical because we’re all so busy.

-Mike Cross

Anytime you can put yourself in someone else’s shoes, it makes you a better person, right? Whether that’s a better teacher, a better spouse, a better friend, a better citizen, anything.

-Mike Cross

Resources

Episode 106: Undercover Professor with Mike Cross

Snow College

Coaching for Leaders Episode 747: How to Get Out of a Rut, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff

What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me About Learning, created by Mike Wesch

Francesca and the Genie of Science, by Mike Cross

Living with Grief: A Poem for Those Who Are Grieving, by Christy Albright

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley

The Midnight