Teaching in Higher Ed

Anton Tolman shares about his book Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling on episode 171 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Everybody who has taught has run into student resistance in one form or another.

We need to start seeing student resistance as a signal.

When they’re resisting, they’re telling me something.

A common error … is to believe that a lot of student resistance is because of the students themselves.

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Cathy O’Neil shares about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, on episode 170 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

This has very little to do with technical knowledge and everything to do with power.

They think that because something is mathematical … it’s inherently more fair than a human process.

There’s absolutely no reason to think that algorithms are inherently fair.

It doesn’t make sense for all colleges to be measured by the same yardstick.

There are ethical choices in every single algorithm we build.

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Cathy Davidson shares about her book, A New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux on episode 169 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We’ve divided things up into very strange and restrictive categories in a world where those categories are completely merged and mixed and changing every minute.

Every generation has some new technology which we’re convinced is going to destroy us.

I believe in being skeptical about technology and therefore learning how to use it well.

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Teddy Svoronos talks about how to effectively use presentation tools in our teaching on episode 168 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

A real tech win to me is a device that both enhances the student experience and also reduces friction.

—Teddy Svoronos

Think very carefully about what will enhance the learning of the people watching the presentation.

—Teddy Svoronos

When we adopt technology, there are are two considerations: how valuable it is and how much friction is it going to introduce.

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Maria and Ben share about educational technology across the disciplines on episode 167 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

There’s really no end to the ways screencasting can be used.

Don’t try to go it alone, because there’s such a great community out there that wants to help.

What’s often driving these really unique, innovative uses of technology is a desire to connect with students.

—Maria Erb

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Bruce Hoskins and I attempt to model how to have healing conversations about racial identity on episode 166 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

People are not necessarily the problem, it’s what people are taught that is the problem.

If we want to create different behavior, we have to change the behavior at the institutional level rather than on the individual level.

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Dave Stachowiak and I talk about teaching lessons from my course evaluations on episode 165 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I hope students realize that I’m learning too, and I’m willing to grow and change and adapt.

Is there anything worthwhile you can glean from this [evaluation] that can make you a better teacher?

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Joe Hoyle shares his expertise from 46 years of teaching and reflects on how to set students up for success from the start on episode 164 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

If you want to become a better teacher, start writing about it.

You have to start by knowing what you yourself want to accomplish.

There has to be a way to communicate to the students — they can’t read your mind.

Be sure that you communicate openly, honestly, and fairly frequently.

What I would hope my students write on my tombstone is, “He cared enough about us that he pushed us to be great.”

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Stacy Jacob talks about her experience incorporating games in her classes on episode 163 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

You really have to be willing to fail.

Learn something new every year.

They need to trust me; I know where we’re going.

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Kris Shaffer shares what we should know about APIs on episode 162 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

APIs are how computers talk to each other.

APIs are the bones of the internet.

It’s interesting to see how different services offer different levels of openness.

You can’t blame the computers, because the computers are programmed by people too.

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