Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed

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  • One in a Million, with Dave Stachowiak

    Bonni and Dave Stachowiak and guests celebrate a million downloads of Teaching in Higher Ed on episode 250 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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    Quotes from the episode

    If I want my students to take risks and not be afraid to fail, then I need to take risks and not be afraid to fail.

    —Kevin Gannon

    We need people like us, and people not like us, and we need access to them lots of the time.

    —Peter Newbury

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    Resources Mentioned
    • Linda Oakleaf’s one in a million – Episode 183 with Robin DeRosa
    • An episode that changed your mind about something? Episode 81 with Stephanie Vie
    • Christina Moore’s one in a million – Episode 209 with Asao Inoue
    • An episode that made you laugh? Episode 138 with Mike Caulfield  and any episode featuring Todd Zakrajsek
    • An episode you learned a lot from? Episode 130 with Chris Gilliard
    • An embarrassing moment from the podcast? Episode 36 with Ken Bain (see also Episode 100 – the Failure Episode)
    • Ian Wolf’s one in a million – Episode 112 – A Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto with Kevin Gannon
    • An episode that changed how you approach your own learning? Episode 53 with Peter Newbury
    • Erin Whitteck’s one in a million – Episode 94 with Pooja Agarwal
    • Isabeau Iqbal’s one in a million – Episode 94 with Pooja Agarwal
    • An episode that made you cry? Episode 165 on course evaluations
    • Josh Eyler’s one in a million – Episode 230 – Teaching with Compassion with Peter Kaufman
    • Episode 9 with Crystal Renfro and Mary Axford
    • Crystal Renfro on Twitter
    • Academic PKM – Chrystal Renfro
    • Favorite moment from an episode? Episode 141 with Clint Smith III
    • A repeating guest who has had a profound impact on your teaching? Stephen Brookfield
    • The Skillful Teacher, by Stephen Brookfield*
    • A repeating guest who has had a profound impact on your life? James Lang
    • Jeff Young – one in a million – Episode 217 with Jesse Stommel on ungrading
    • An episode that continues to inspire you? Episode 215 with Bryan Dewsbury
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    • Mindset, Metacognition, and Math, with Silvia Heubach

      Silvia Heubach discusses mindset, metacognition, and math on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

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      Quotes from the episode

      The more you can make stories and connections and reasons, the better it allows the student to learn.

      —Silvia Heubach

      Learning happens when students do work.

      —Silvia Heubach

      When you try a new methodology … you have to sell it to the students.

      —Silvia Heubach

      The teacher is a coach that can help you, but you need to do the practice.

      —Silvia Heubach

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      Resources Mentioned
      • The Impact of Faculty Attitudes About Intelligence
      • CSLA Math Professor Receives CSU Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award
      • First in the World program
      • Silvia Heubach’s website
      • Teach Students How to Learn, by Saundra McGuire*
      • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck*
      • Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide, by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent*
      • Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty, by Robert Talbert*
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        31 min
      • Surveying Social and Open Learning, with Debbie Baff

        Debbie Baff talks about surveying social and open learning on episode 248 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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        Quotes from the episode

        All of the different things I’ve done have led me to this place now.

        —Debbie Baff

        The value of an open digital badge is not the badge itself — it’s the learning behind it.

        —Debbie Baff

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        Resources Mentioned
        • OER Wales Cymru
        • OER15
        • Catherine Cronin on Episode 152
        • #LTHEchat
        • Association of Learning Technology
        • Virtually Connecting 
        • Mozilla backpack
        • Sue Beckingham
        • Chrissi Nerantzi
        • Eleanor Beer
        • Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam\*
        • https://bryanmmathers.com/
        • https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/
        • The Sketchnote Army
        • The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking, by Mike Rohde \*
        • Paper Fiftythree
        • Procreate
        • Adobe Sketch
        • Sheila MacNeill
        • Sue Beckingham reflects on #SocMedHE18
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          46 min
        • Reclaiming the Narrative on the Value of Higher Education, with C. Edward Watson

          Eddie Watson talks about reclaiming the narrative on the value of higher education on episode 247 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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          Quotes from the episode

          We have a unique opportunity to … reclaim the narrative on the value of higher education.

          —C. Edward Watson

          You learn things in the classroom — can you make those things work in a real-world setting?

          —C. Edward Watson

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          Resources Mentioned
          • AAC&U Report – Fulfilling the American Dream: Liberal Education and the Future of Work
          • How the Great Recession changed the job market forever for college grads in The Washington Post 
          • Falling Confidence in Higher Ed, by Scott Jaschik
          • The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy, by Lisa B. Kahn
          • Underemployment: Research on the Long-Term Impact on Careers
          • Handshake’s Annual Report | 2018 – Campus to Career
          • AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
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            38 min
          • Teaching STEM for Social Impact

            Erik Helgren and Karina Garbesi share about teaching STEM for social impact on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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            Quotes from the episode

            Everybody has this hidden desire to want to do something meaningful in the world.

            —Karina Garbesi

            People want to help you when you’re doing something for somebody else.

            —Karina Garbesi

            Follow your passions.

            —Erik Helgren

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            Resources Mentioned
            • We Care Solar
            • Derek Bruff on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 71
            • A Time for Telling, by Daniel L. Schwartz and John D. Bransford
            • Energy Sticks
            • YouTube video on the Social Impact Solar Program’s Hoopa Native American Solar Suitcase Workshop, Summer 2018
            • YouTube video interviewing Helgren and Garbesi after the first pilot year in 2015-16
            • The True Cost
            • We Share Solar Program 
            • Transformative sustainability learning: a united pedagogy of head, hands and heart
            • Sunrise Movement
            • Articles on the Social Impact Solar Program:

              • Dossetti, Krista, Light After Dark, East Bay Today, Article, September 1, 2016.
              • Bloom, Jonathan, Hayward students ‘invention’ will help power schools in Africa, ABC 7 news article and video: February 10, 2017.
              • Fuelner, Natalie, Rising in the East, East Bay Today, Article, pg. 28 – 33, Fall 2016.
              • Moriki, Darin, Hayward: Lighting up the night one solar suitcase at a time, Mercury News, Feb 24, 2017.
              • Fuelner, Natalie, Solar Warriors: Cal State East Bay Solar Suitcase Program partners with Native American tribes, organizations nationwide, East Bay Today.
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                39 min
              • The Fullness of our Humanity as Teacher and Student, with Terri Jett

                Dr. Terri Jett discusses the fullness of our humanity as a teacher and student on episode 245 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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                Quotes from the episode

                I’m trying to understand what the students are seeking themselves.

                —Terri Jett

                What I was learning was so deeply personal.

                —Terri Jett

                Make a statement, even if it’s small.

                —Terri Jett

                Don’t just sit there and take it — do something about it.

                —Terri Jett

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                Resources Mentioned
                • Student course evaluations
                • Have someone come observe your classes
                • The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics, by Schubert, Dye, and Zeigler*
                • The Gist Podcast: Stop Going Nuclear
                • Episode #217 with Jesse Stommel: How to Ungrade
                • Alice Walker
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                  40 min
                • Create Online Mashups that Ignite Curiosity, with Michael Britt

                  Michael Britt describes how to create online mashups that ignite curiosity on episode 244 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

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                  Quotes from the episode

                  What do I want my students to see first?

                  —Michael Britt

                  First I want to hear what the students think.

                  —Michael Britt

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                  Resources Mentioned
                  • Michael’s podcast
                  • IFTTT
                  • Zapier
                  • Microsoft Flow 
                  • What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain\*
                  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout
                  • Small Teaching, by James Lang\*
                  • ThingLink
                  • Customize Youtube Video Start time End Time 
                  • PollEverywhere
                  • A critical thinking exercise with Koko the Gorilla (uses Wakelet, embedded video and Google Forms)
                  • Rubber (tire movie)
                  • Google Forms
                  • Padlet
                  • Wakelet
                  • H5P.org
                  • CrazyTalk
                  • Wordle
                  • Visme
                  • An online exercise to help students improve their study skills (uses Google Forms, Slides, and Spreadsheets)
                  • What did B.F. Skinner Think about Parenting? (A combination of Thinglink, SoundCloud and Wordle)
                  • Mental Illness or Demonic Possession? (a mashup of Visme, Vimeo and Google Forms)
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                    31 min
                  • The Writer’s Practice, with John Warner

                    John Warner shares about his new book, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing on episode 243 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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                    Quotes from the episode

                    Students came with so many preconceived notions of what an essay was.

                    —John Warner

                    The definition of a writer is simply somebody who writes.

                    —John Warner

                    There’s no reason not to trust students and their own experience of the world.

                    —John Warner

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                    Resources Mentioned
                    • The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, by John Warner*
                    • Episode 172: Values, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Pedagogy
                    • Episode 233: Why They Can’t Write
                    • Marlene M. Preston at Virginia Tech
                    • Clint Smith’s tweet about used books
                    • Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, by John Warner*
                    • ‘Dreyer’s English’ Is for Everybody, by John Warner on Inside Higher Ed*
                    • The author you need to read now: Tressie McMillan Cottom, by John Warner
                    • Abebooks – used books
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                      36 min
                    • Using Virtual Labs and Immersive Reality to Enhance Student Learning, with Kambiz Hmadani

                      Kambiz Hamadani discusses using virtual labs and immersive reality to enhance student learning on episode 242 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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                      Quotes from the episode

                      Faculty have many more communication lines open to them, and why not use them?

                      —Kambiz Hamadani

                      One of the challenges I think we all face … is finding ways to deal with that diversity of background.

                      —Kambiz Hamadani

                      You have to very slowly wade into the pool of course redesign.

                      —Kambiz Hamadani

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                      Resources Mentioned
                      • E-portfolio 2016-2017 Course Redesign with Technology for General Biochemistry lecture course using and assessing the impact of Virtual Biochemistry Labs
                      • E-portfolio 2017-2018 Course Redesign with Technology for General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry Lecture/Lab course where Dr. Hamadani developed, used, and assessed the impact of combining virtual labs and customized take-home lab kits
                      • Recent Nature Outlooks article highlighting use and assessment of virtual biochemistry labs for teaching
                      • VoiceThread
                      • Webinar put together by Labster, Inc. on usage of their virtual lab tools
                      • Video Summary of course redesign of General Biochemistry course using Labster, Inc. Virtual Labs
                      • Labster Blog on Hamadani’s use of their virtual lab tools
                      • ACS presentation slides detailing my course redesigns
                      • Article detailing the remaining divisions between physical and virtual lab technologies and ways to make the best of all possible worlds
                      • Bonni’s 2017 Tech Someday/Maybe List
                      • Getting Things Done by David Allen
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                        34 min
                      • Inclusive Pedagogy, with Sylvia Kane

                        Sylvia Kane shares about inclusive pedagogy on episode 241 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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                        Quotes from the episode

                        We need to start examining our own unconscious biases.

                        —Sylvia Kane

                        You have to start taking risks.

                        —Sylvia Kane

                        We are not teaching content — we are teaching students.

                        —Sylvia Kane

                        It’s a process — we are always learning.

                        —Sylvia Kane

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                        Resources Mentioned
                        • Excelencia in Education
                        • Episode #199 with Sierra Smith
                        • Banking model of education
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                          26 min

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