After a hiatus of 6 months, we are returning with new episodes for our third season of Edumeasure.  In this introduction, we discuss the reason for our pause in new episodes, and what we are planning for this season.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode we consider the ground rules for dealing with AI in our classrooms.  What constitutes a responsible, creative response to the challenge of AI for teachers, students, and parents?  We discuss the essential role that human agency should play in any successful engagement with AI --using it rather than it using you.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

What should teachers and students do about our society's sudden obsession with Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, we revisit our previous season's podcast on the topic, reflecting on the role that recent generative AI technologies (LLMs, ChatGPT, and related programs) should play in contemporary education. The speed and intensity with which AI technology has been inserted into our daily lives requires a thoughtful response from both teachers and students, if we are to use the technology rather than have the technology use us. The episode looks at why the current AI debate is so confusing.  How we can rethink or reframe this issue to shape an intelligent response to its implicit challenges?  This episode is the first of a two-part series.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode, I follow up on my thoughts from the previous episode, Mistakes and Values.  I explore how to implement creative learning in the transformative classroom with the explicit use of mistakes analysis, sharing how I applied the insights of writers Neil Postman and Kathryn Schulz for the benefit of both teachers and learners.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode we examine the obstacles to creative engagement with the learning potential of mistakes in the classroom, focusing on the challenges for teachers as professionals.  We use the experiences of the host to illustrate some of these challenges. Part One of a two-part episode on Mistakes and Values.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

We start off our new season with an interview -- a conversation with an emeritus professor of literature, Dr. Robert Seufert, who reflects on his decades of experience in the classroom teaching English.  His experiments in the creation of transformational experiences for students are applicable to a wide variety of teaching environments and situations.  I think you'll find his reflections thought-provoking; he has taken the time since his retirement to draw remarkable insights into what teaching and learning can achieve in the classroom.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

As we begin the second season of Edumeasure, we thought we would give our listeners some idea of what we learned from the first season, and where we plan to go now.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

What should an extraordinary education look like from the perspective of a college president? Dr Jeff Abernathy, President of Alma College, offers his vision of what a liberal arts education can and should do to to transform student learning, relying on his experience as a Professor, a Dean, a Provost. and a College President over a 40-year career in higher education.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode's interview, we listen to three recent college graduates reflect on their educations -- about what was meaningful about the college experience itself, and what those experiences mean to them today.  These students provide us with a fascinating perspective on our students' understanding of the goals and ideals of the liberal arts.  This episode is Part One of a two-part series. 

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education