Teaching in Higher Ed

Clint Smith warns us of the danger of silence on episode 141 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I was failing to speak up on behalf of issues that didn’t directly affect me, and that caused me a deep amount of shame.

What does it look like to be more proactive in being the sort of person that I’m asking my students to be?

What is the role and responsibility of someone given access to a platform of potential power and influence?

There’s a difference between a sort of silence of complicity and a silence of listening. I think it’s important that we differentiate and disentangle the two.

We need to think about the ways in which our identities shape whether or not we should be speaking or listening.

The act of empathy and the act of listening … is going to be more important now than ever.

I believe deeply in the fact that I am a partner in my students’ academic journey.

The Four Principles:

Steven Michels helps us think outside the LMS on episode 140 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Every technology suggests how it should be used.

The hub of any class should be the discussion board.

Teaching should be learner-driven, not tool-driven.

Technology is better at bringing the world into the classroom than it is in taking the classroom out into the world.

Anything we can do as faculty members and professors to harness this natural love of learning that our students have … I think is a good thing.

Stephanie Lancaster shares ways to effectively debrief with our students on episode 139 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

The role of any educator is to be there for their students: someone to talk to and lean on, or just to be with in times of need.

I learned the power of reflection in teaching and learning.

Debriefing is the process of strategically examining and analyzing what happened after the completion of an event or activity, within the context of learning.

What’s your big takeaway, and how does that connect to what you’re going to be doing in the real world?

The biggest challenge is that my students tend to want to talk just to me … really what I want them to do is to talk to each other.

Mike Caulfield prescribes a new digital literacy on episode #138 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

C. Edward Watson joins me to talk about Teaching Naked Techniques on episode #137 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Jose Bowen reveals Teaching Naked Techniques on episode #136 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Good teaching always starts with what matters to your students.

What I really want is for my students to all find their own voice.

This is going to be challenging … and I know you can do it.

Students learn more when they believe the teacher cares about learning.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion* on episode #135 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Hoda Mostafa discusses teaching creativity on episode 134 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Relevance and meaning are so important for the students I teach.

I had to figure out ways to learn things without relying too much on memorization.

You have to guide students through the process of learning how to think.

Students get engaged when it’s meaningful to them.

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Bonni Stachowiak reveals what’s on her someday/maybe tech list on episode 133 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Saundra Y. McGuire discusses how to teach students how to learn on episode 132 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Learning is a process, not an activity.

Physical activity is really important to having the brain operate at peak efficiency.

Pretending that you’re teaching information is a great way to practice retrieval of that information.

Students who may be failing our courses miserably are not failing because they are not capable; they are failing because they don’t have strategies to successfully manage the information.

When we believe it’s possible, then we can help students believe it’s possible.

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