Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni Stachowiak shares some of her fears about teaching and ways that she often attempts to resolve them.

The Skillful Teacher, by Stephen Brookfield

Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, by Greg McKeown

Tommy Emmanuel’s Tall Fidler

Mark Hofer shares how he implements Universal Design for Learning in his teaching, so that all students have the opportunity to learn.

Student, Tony, who helped Mark identify the need for Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

…gives all individuals equal opportunities to learn. – National Center on Universal Design for Learning

If you think about [the UDL] components as you’re designing your course, you’re going to wind up with better learning experiences for all your students. – Mark Hofer

We inadvertently put up barriers for our students in their learning.

Mark’s compare and contrast example

It does take students some time to get used to the idea that there may be more than one way to [accomplish] something. – Mark Hofer

…goal is to try to make the learning as relevant and interesting to the learning, not just initially, but to sustain their interest in the learning… – Mark Hofer

While it is more [work] to select the various kinds of resources, it’s paid back when in class the students are more prepared and we can go into further depth. -Mark Hofer

Don’t try to do [UDL] for every lesson, every day; it’s a recipe for burnout. – Mark Hofer

If you apply good accessibility practices to [course content], it will really benefit multiple learners in the process. – Mark Hofer

Jesse Stommel, shares about how he enhances his teaching with Twitter.

When I grew up, I always wanted to have my own school… [Hybrid Pedagogy] is not really as much a repository for articles, but a space for community and for engaging. – Jesse Stommel

Was recently in Canada for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, where he broke his ankle

Kindness is what drives my pedagogy. It’s about seeing people for who they really are and engaging with their full selves. – Jesse Stommel

Part of [kindness] is also about bringing your full self to the relationship you have with your coworkers, your students, and [other collaborators] that you use as a guiding ethic. – Jesse Stommel

The constraints of Twitter are also its affordances. Being asked to take an idea and put it in this constrained linguistic space of 140 characters forces us to think about and question our thinking in ways we wouldn’t otherwise. – Jesse Stommel

Twitter allows for improvisation within a framework

Twitter lets us play out our ideas

Twitter is a space for trying out ideas. It encourages us to iterate… – Jesse Stommel

[Twitter] is like a tool in the way that a pencil is a tool. A tool that lots of people can use for lots of different reasons. It becomes this platform that you can use in different ways and environments. – Jesse Stommel

Conversation with Steve Wheeler re: digital natives on episode 38

Each person has to find a different relationship to these tools and build their own self inside of the network. – Jesse Stommel

Anyone who imagines that they can become private just with the flip of a switch is not really understanding how these networks work. – Jesse Stommel

Reflections on Teaching in Higher Ed episode 31 on the social network Yik Yak

Some things need to be public. – Jesse Stommel

Canvassers study in episode #555 of This American Life has been retracted

He was peer-reviewing my tweets before I sent each one out [at our wedding]… – Jesse Stommel

Today I’m live-tweeting my wedding to Joshua Lee. Because some things need to be public.

— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) June 13, 2014

I want my students to know someone in a place that is so different than the place that they are in. – Jesse Stommel

Managing email using the Inbox Zero approach.

Bonni recommends:

Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk calendar management.

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

Dave shared about his “Wayne’s World” moment, coming back as a guest on the show.

Chart on Twitter about service hours invested by gender/race:

hrs/wk assoc. profs spend on service by race/gender pic.twitter.com/vf4EA7xL6L

— Tressie Mc (@tressiemcphd) June 28, 2015

Exceptions to only having items calendared that have to happen at a particular time