Teaching in Higher Ed

It is going to take creative collaboration to better equip college students to develop 21st century skills. My guest, Jeff Hittenberger, has worked in higher ed, K-12; in the U.S. and abroad; and as a teacher and as an administrator. His unique perspective helps us think about how to prepare our students in higher ed for tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities.

Learned from experiences growing up in Haiti.

What does higher education have to learn from what’s happening in K-12, as we all work to develop 21st century skills?

Disconnect between higher ed and K-12

Communication that one might anticipate happening between these educational bodies doesn’t happen. Can lead to gaps in students’ educational experiences. 21st century skills gives us one way to talk about what we have in common.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Resources for educators

4 competency areas, referred to as the 4Cs

PIMCO partnership

Carnegie hour

Lipscombe – competency-based higher education

Important for faculty to discover where there are differences in how they gauge critical thinking and develop ways to assess it in similar ways

SmartBoards being used to teach physics

“He who opens a school door closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo

The maker movement

TED Talk: Thomas Suarez – 12-year-old app developer

How can we tap into the passions of our students and engage them?

Why Do Americans Stink At Math by Elizabeth Green in the New York Times

How the increase in technological capabilities is changing our ability to collaborate

As parents of a college-age daughter, Jeff and his wife care more about who their daughter becomes as a person, in terms of her character, than they do about the knowledge she is gaining. Answering: “Who am I? Who am I becoming? What am I contributing to the world?”

Cheating Lessons, by James Lang (Bonni)

21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times, by Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel (Jeff)

Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century, by The Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills (Jeff)

Librarians can be such a wonderful resource to us as faculty. Today’s guests are Georgia Tech Academic Librarians: Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro. They  have been a tremendous help to me – and I’ve never even met them in person. Call it a testament to the power of academic personal knowledge management…

These are the notes from our dialog together about academic personal knowledge management for academic researchers and librarians.

Crystal Renfro

Mary Axford

The comments made by Crystal and Mary during the podcast are their own opinions and do not represent those of Georgia Tech.

How the databases have kept up, as well as how the researchers have kept up with the new features (Crystal)

It’s very individual. What works for one person may not work for someone else.

Be sure that you don’t let the ‘doing the tool’ well become more the goal versus achieving your purpose with the tool. (Crystal)

ProfHacker  |  GradHacker  |  Catherine Pope’s The Digital Researcher  (Mary)

Tweet about the random sandwich generator from Dan Szymborski (Bonni)

This is why I really need adult supervision: I made a random sandwich generator based on my available cold cuts. pic.twitter.com/dnwyWFXpR1

— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) August 6, 2014

ScoopIt : Robin Good’s Scoop.it sites on content curation (Crystal)

Enough with the hypothetical. Now we share what tools we use in our personal knowledge management systems.

This episode walks through each of the phases of a personal knowledge management system and the tools we each use for each step.

Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.

“Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud.” – Harold Jarche

Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche

Bonni’s online PKM modules

Bonni and Dave describe what tools we use in each of the stages of personal knowledge management.

Feedly

Newsify

Mr. Reader

Unread

Follow Dave on Twitter

Follow Bonni on Twitter

Subscribe to Bonni’s Twitter lists

RSS

NextDraft: The day’s most fascinating news

Audible

Drafts

Dave’s Pinboard

Bonni’s Delicious

Evernote

WordPress.com – free blog, good place to get started, but for most customization, you will want a self-hosted WordPress site

20 minute tutorial by Michael Hyatt on how to start your own self-hosted WordPress blog / website

Twitter

LinkedIn

Facebook

TextExpander (Dave)

Breevy (Bonni)

On this episode: https://teachinginhighered.com/8

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Personal knowledge management and mastery. How to capture information, curate it, and create new knowledge from it. It can be so challenging to keep up with everything we have on our plates, let alone to what’s happening in the world and in areas that are most important to us.

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

This episode introduces the terms personal knowledge mastery and management.

Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.

“Personal mastery is a discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.” -Peter Senge

Harold Jarche’s PKM resources

Harold Jarche’s introductory video

Skills for 2020

StorkStand

Potato salad

Seek – capture

Sense – curate

Share – create

“Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud.” – Harold Jarche

Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche

Bonni’s online PKM modules: 

1. Introduction to PKM

2. PKM demo (the actual tools I use in my PKM process)

3. PKM for academics

Practical Typography by Butterick (Dave)

Dave Pell’s NextDraft – The day’s most fascinating news (Bonni)

On this episode: https://teachinginhighered.com/7

Comments, questions, or feedback:  https://teachinginhighered.com/feedback

How can we use silence to condition our students to answer the questions we pose?

It is counter-intuitive. We want students to engage with us, so we pose questions. Then, they just look at us, or down at their desks, with a pained or bored expression. We decide this whole question-asking thing is for the birds… or, at least, for a different kind of class/discipline than the one in which we teach.

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

How we condition ourselves not to ask questions and condition our students not to answer them.

We try to get our students to engage by asking a question. They stare back at us, blankly. It’s awkward.

Thinking in terms of what to cover in class, versus where the needs actually are.

The 8 second rule takes this time I to account. It used the power of silence to pressure students to take to risk of engaging.

Broadening the definition of EdTech for the purpose of sharing a couple things that have captured our attention:

Evernote water bottle (Bonni) After recording the show, I saw that not only is this a great water bottle, but it is also associated with a great cause: WaterAid.

Turning off email on phone (Dave); Essentialism book