Teaching in Higher Ed

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December 04, 2014Make large classes interactive, with Chrissy Spencer
It seems that the larger classes get, the more distant our students can seem. On today’s episode, Dr. Chrissy Spencer helps us discover how to make large classes interactive.
Even if you teach classes of 20, the resources she uses in her classes as large as 200+ will be of benefit.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Chrissy Spencer, teaches at Georgia Tech
Ph.D., Genetics, University of Georgia
Active learning video: Turning students into chili peppers
The interactive classroom
Learning Catalytics
Prepared in advance a few slides that help clarify commonly misunderstood concepts
Allowing students to fail or struggle with an answer
Interrupted case studies
Traditionally a set of materials where there are specific stopping points built in
Powerful, because students need to have their progress monitored and milestones achieved
Bonni’s case studies rubric
Forming groups
Catme team maker
Team-based, low stakes assessments
Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning workshop on team based learning
Don’t try team based learning half way
Start small
Switching from clickers to Learning Catalytics
Pearson’s Learning Catalytics
Strength in the types of questions that can be asked
Bonni uses PollEverywhere
Flipped classroom
Khan Academy
Reinforce that reading ahead and reading in a particular way is important to making the class time in interesting ways
Process called team based learning
Lesson learned/ ignored: “start small and do things in a small and measured way”
Evernote
TopHat audience response system
Service learning
The way that students could apply learning from a content area in the real world and also give back to the community in some way (Chrissy)
Identified project partners that met certain criteria
Outside in the field
CATME tool helped to determine who had cars
Recommendations
The Dip (Bonni)
Find something that you love and bring it in to the classroom (Chrissy)
Closing Credits
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38 min
December 04, 2014 Make large classes interactive
It seems that the larger classes get, the more distant our students can seem. On today’s episode, Dr. Chrissy Spencer helps us discover how to make large classes interactive. Even if you teach classes of 20, the resources she uses in her classes as large as 200+ will be of benefit. Podcast notes Guest: Dr. […]
38 min
November 20, 2014Cultivate creative assignments, with Cameron Hunt McNabb
When we get creative with what we assign students, we open up a whole new set of possibilities for student engagement and learning. On today’s episode, Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb helps us discover how to craft creative assignments that facilitate learning well.
Podcast Notes
Guest
Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb
Her bio and university web page
Recommended as a guest by past Teaching in Higher Ed guest: Dr. Josh Eyler
Cameron’s students contributed to the Medieval Disability Glossary by including their research on the word ‘lame‘
Teaching philosophy
…to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar…
The truth about internet slang; it goes way back (in Salon Magazine)
Cameron’s teaching philosophy from her website
Creative assignments
Must meet a specific goal and be measurable
Backwards design
Understanding by Design
Identify goals first
What evidence would exhibit those goals
Explore options for assignments that would provide that evidence
** Write a paragraph in “future English”
Authentic pedagogy
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B.F. Skinner, The New Scientist, May 21, 1964
About authentic pedagogy
Places an emphasis on learning that is a construction of prior knowledge and a high value on knowledge that extends beyond the classroom.
** “Real world” is not just vocational, but for every aspect of life…
Active learning
About active learning
** Intro to Shakespeare class; hired actors to come in and had students come with annotated script and then were asked to co-direct the scenes
A veteran teacher takes on the role of a student (from Wiggins’ blog)
Other ideas for creative assignments
Undergraduate research: Morgan Library in New York
Louis C.K.’s Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy routine
The role of education: equipping us to think
Arthur Holmes, The Idea of a Christian College
Recommendations
Bonni recommends Lines from The Princess Bride that could double as comments on Freshmen composition papers via McSweeney’s.net
Episode 3: Lessons in Teaching from The Princess Bride
Cameron recommends that we follow Tina Fey’s advice to “Say yes” (in her memoir Bossy Pants)
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35 min
November 20, 2014 Cultivate creative assignments
When we get creative with what we assign students, we open up a whole new set of possibilities for student engagement and learning. On today’s episode, Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb helps us discover how to craft creative assignments that facilitate learning well. Podcast Notes Guest Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb Her bio and university web page […]
35 min
November 13, 2014How to engage students in the classroom and online, with Jay Howard
It is such a crucial part of what we do as professors… Getting students involved in discussions and helping to facilitate their learning.
Dr. Jay Howard joins me on this episode to talk about how to engage students in the classroom and online.
Podcast Notes
Guest
Dr. Jay Howard
Engaging Your Students Face-to-Face and Online (July 2015) (Jossey-Bass)
Garner multiple intelligences theory
Sociologogical approach to observing the classroom
Norms
The real norm is not that students have to pay attention. It’s that they have to pay civil attention.
Elevator norms
David Karp and William Yoels from Boston College
Episode on learning names
When students feel you value them enough to try to learn their names, they’ll be much more forgiving of mistakes.
Two classroom norms that do not foster discussion
Civil attention, create the appearance of paying attention
Consolidation of responsibility for student participation
Attendance 2 app
Regardless of class size, there will be around five students who will become your dominant talkers who will account for 75-95% of student comments in the typical college class.
Online discussion forums
Waiting until the deadline
Two deadlines
Break students into groups
Netiquette examples
Engage Students
You can change norms. They are not fixed.
Shifting the workload toward the students.
This helps them learn more.
Recommendations
Bonni recommends: Michael hyatt’s ideal week blog post and template
Jay, author of Apostles of Rock, recommends: The Lost Dogs
Closing credits
Review on iTunes or stitcher to help others discover the show
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37 min
November 13, 2014 How to engage students in the classroom and online
It is such a crucial part of what we do as professors… Getting students involved in discussions and helping to facilitate their learning. Dr. Jay Howard joins me on this episode to talk about how to engage students in the classroom and online. Podcast Notes Guest Dr. Jay Howard Engaging Your Students Face-to-Face and Online […]
37 min
November 06, 2014Using iPads in the higher ed classroom, with Guy Trainin
Dr. Guy Trainin joins me for episode 22 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about using iPads and tablets in the classroom.
Podcast Notes
Guest
Dr. Guy Trainin
Bio
Blog
On Twitter
TechEdge on Pinterest
TechEdge on YouTube: iPads in the Classroom
Life in the classroom before the iPad
iPad integration in a higher ed classroom
Padlet
Exit Ticket
Socrative
When the professor has invested, but the institution has not
Educreations
Explain Everything
Touchcast (requires new iPad)
PollEverywhere
Supporting students with disabilities
Visual thesaurus
Visual thesaurus on the iPad
Dictionary.com iPad app
Virtual keyboard as a built in feature to support students
Anne Lamott emphasizes having “shitty first drafts” in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing, by Peter Elbows
The “haves” and “have nots”
Collaborative learning assignments
Augmented reality book report covers
Twitter tutorial – collaborative project with kids (imagine what is then possible with higher ed students)
Recommendations
Mine craft (Guy)
Minecraft.edu component
Feedly (Bonni)
Closing credits
Review on iTunes or stitcher to help others discover the show
Weekly update /subscribe
Feedback /feedback
36 min
November 06, 2014 Using iPads in the higher ed classroom
Dr. Guy Trainin joins me for episode 22 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about using iPads and tablets in the classroom. Podcast Notes Guest Dr. Guy Trainin Bio Blog On Twitter TechEdge on Pinterest TechEdge on YouTube: iPads in the Classroom Life in the classroom before the iPad iPad integration in a […]
36 min
October 30, 2014Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom, with Mark Carnes
Students voting to extend the class time? Professors reporting that students are doing the reading for the course without threats or other forms of coercion? Today, in episode 21, Dr. Mark Carnes joins me to talk role immersion games in the higher ed classroom.
Podcast notes
Dr. Mark C. Carnes, Professor of History, Barnard College
Author of Minds on fire how role immersion games transform college, published by Harvard University Press
The classroom struggle before Reacting to the Past
Your class was less boring than most.
Role immersion games
Reacting to the Past
Audio from Faculty Perspectives video (through the 2 minute mark)
Transcending disciplinary structures.
Origins of the title of Minds on Fire
What we give up as professors to make role immersion games work
Contributions from other academic disciplines to Reacting to the Past
Scalability
Aspects of playing the games
Competition
Imagining what it’s like to be someone else
“Teaching” civil disobedience
You give up the control of knowing what the classroom is going to be like. Instead, you get the drama and, often, these moments of extraordinary student performances and transformations that leave you amazed.
Queen’s College class did the India Reacting class. High attendance. All focused on it.
While some skepticism is appropriate, our tried and true methods aren’t that fail safe.
Structure is different, because the “slacker’s” peers are counting on him/her.
They can’t hide out like they can in other classes.
Becoming someone different from who you are
Recommendations
Serial podcast (Bonni)
Google “Reacting to the Past” videos (Mark)
Reacting to the Past website
Reacting to the Past consortium
Closing Credits
Review on iTunes or stitcher to help others discover the show
Weekly update /subscribe
Feedback
34 min
October 30, 2014 Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom
Students voting to extend the class time? Professors reporting that students are doing the reading for the course without threats or other forms of coercion? Today, in episode 21, Dr. Mark Carnes joins me to talk role immersion games in the higher ed classroom. Podcast notes Dr. Mark C. Carnes, Professor of History, Barnard College Author […]
34 min

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