Erin Whitteck and Douglas Fritz share efforts toward more equitable assessment on episode 370 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


First impressions with students are extremely important.
-Erin Whitteck

High stakes assessments create such a risk averse environment where there is no room to fail.
-Douglas Fritz


Resources

 	Bonni explains the significance of her favorite number (208) and how it is associated with her teaching during Episode 208
 	Boxes (digital and/or analog) of encouragement
 	Relationship-Rich Education, by Peter Felton and Leo Lambert
 	Peter Felton and Leo Lambert talk about Relationship-Rich Education on Episode 331 of Teaching in Higher Ed
 	Robert Talbert describes his 3-dimensional view of assessment in his post: Building Calculus Assessments (not just related to calculus, by the way)
 	Retrieval Practice
 	Erin likes how Rissa Sorensen-Unruh talks about the word ‘rigor’ in being used to support high-stakes exams

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Dave Stachowiak interviews Bonni about Bird Brains on episode 520 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


Good curators are valued members of knowledge networks.
-Bonni Stachowiak

For those of us that teach in a higher education context, there are so many different classroom observation tools that are far more grounded in research.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Let's celebrate it for the whole 10th year. We are going to be launching an opportunity where we can surface and share our stories and our experiences together.
-Bonni Stachowiak


Resources

 	Cornell Lab of Ornithology
 	Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab
 	The Genius of Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman
 	Fold the Cheese | Schitt's Creek
 	What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me About Learning | Mike Wesch
 	Enhancing Inclusive Instruction, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, and Khadijah A. Mitchell
 	Protocol for Advancing Inclusive Teaching Efforts (PAITE)
 	Episode 457: Metaphor as Conceptual Anchor with Kerry Mandulak
 	Episode 213: Personal Knowledge Mastery with Harold Jarche
 	Personal Knowledge Mastery, by Harold Jarche
 	The Canary Code, by Ludmila Praslova
 	Outside-In: Entangled Openness as Subversion Influencing Emergent Change, by Maha Bali
 	Wild Geese, written and read by Mary OIiver on On Being
 	Goosechase

Bird Brains: The Collective Practice of Getting Better at Teaching

Danielle De La Mare shares how to foster self compassion as a professor on episode 519 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


And I worked way, way, way, way, way harder than I should have because I thought that if I didn't work hard, people would see that I wasn't worthy of being their teacher.
-Danielle De La Mare

Let's just take a second and really feel all the pain that you've been feeling. And put your hands over your heart.
-Danielle De La Mare

Don't say yes if it's not something that really speaks to you, if it's not really a deeper sort of desire of yours.
-Danielle De La Mare

What is it like to be me? Do I even know right now?
-Danielle De La Mare


Resources

 	Self Compassion Breaks
 	Self Compassionate Professor Podcast
 	Facebook Group: Self Compassionate Professors
 	Kristen Neff: What is Self Compassion?
 	Link to a section of a Padlet board

How to Foster Self-Compassion as a Professor

José Bowen shares about Teaching with AI on episode 518 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


The technology changed the standard that we accept.
-José Bowen

There's a huge equity issue here, but there's also an opportunity to raise standards.
-José Bowen

There are different things that AI can do to help us with student learning.
-José Bowen

AI has the capability to increase our ability to have relationships with students by taking away some of the other kinds of tedious things.
-José Bowen

Integrity is a universal value.
-José Bowen


Resources

 	Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
 	The Case for Slow-Walking Our Use of Generative AI: Four principles to guide your thinking on the role of ChatGPT and other such tools in your teaching, by James M. Lang
 	How to Use GenAI to Prepare for Your Next Job Interview, by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Teaching with AI

C. Edward Watson talks about thinking with and about AI on episode 517 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


Where will things be 2 and a half years? And how do you prepare students for that world that's rapidly evolving?
-Eddie Watson

You must use AI as a starting point in the real world.
-Eddie Watson

Even the best tool on the market says that it gets it wrong one out of 20 times. You know, there's a false positive. It'll accuse a student of cheating who did not cheat with AI. And that's the best in show tool.
-Eddie Watson

There are so many ethical concerns within this space just around AI detection.
-Eddie Watson


Resources

 	Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
 	turbolearn ai
 	AI Tutor Pro
 	OpenStax
 	Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people’s character, employability, and criminality, by Valentin Hofmann , Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, Dan Jurafsky, Sharese King
 	The Myth of the AI First Draft, by Leon Furze
 	How To Teach with AI and Still Put People First, by Jon Ippolito
 	Whisper Memos
 	Lance Eaton
 	Michelle Miller
 	Anna Mills

Thinking with and About AI

Karen Robert + Aga Palalas share about their co-edited book, Presence in the Online World, a Contemplative Perspective and Practice for Educators, on episode 516 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


This practice really focuses on the beautiful part of us, which is compassion.
-Aga Palalas

What is my intention? Why am I here right now?
-Aga Palalas

Practices take practice.
-Karen Robert

Come back to yourself.
-Karen Robert


Resources

 	Presence in the Online World, a Contemplative Perspective and Practice for Educators, edited by Leslie Jeffrey; Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas; Karen Robert and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
 	Wild Geese
 	Contemplative Practices in Higher Education*
 	The 10% Happier Podcast, by Dan Harris
 	Insight Timer App
 	Greater Good in Education

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