Two Teachers Talking™

Two Teachers Talking™

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Two Teachers Talking™ episodes

  • 164. Shock and awe or the comfort of the familiar?

    Tony and Charles struggle with that question and discuss the best ways to reach our students. It’s not simple.

    Mentioned, previous episodes:

  • - 154 Desirable Difficulties - November 2022
  • - 130 Learning Styles - November 2020
  • - 118 Great Expectations Revisited - January 2020
  • - 60 Great Expectations - March 2015
    • 1 hr 6 min
  • 163. Diversity - Mixing it up

    We discuss the value of mixing it up - using diverse deliveries, approaches, methods, activities, tasks, media, teachers. See also: 154 Desirable Difficulties and 130 Learning Styles.

    1 hr 4 min
  • 161. Around the world with Rin

    While Charles recovers from his bout with COVID, Tony interviews one of his former Osaka University students, Rin Takahashi, in Querétaro, Mexico. What’s she doing there? Taking a year off and traveling around the world.

    1 hr 2 min
  • 160. This class is a DISASTER!

    We can confirm that, yes, there are classes that are just BAD. For most of us those are few and far between, but we’ve all had one - or will.What can you do when it’s your turn? There are things you can do, and there are elements beyond your control. We hash it out.

    1 hr 15 min
  • 159. Stand and Deliver

    We look at another teacher movie: Stand and Deliver (Ramón Menendez, 1988). Based on a true story of success at an inner-city Los Angeles high school.

    Related:

    - Episode 60 Great Expectations, March 2015

    - Episode 118, Great Expectations Revisited, January 2020

    - Jaime Escalante Forever https://youtu.be/mX0jKFd0KEk

    1 hr 3 min
  • 158. Dead Poets Society

    158. Dead Poets Society

    This month we are going to make some folks angry. We look at one of the landmark teaching/teacher movies and conclude…well…have a listen.
    If we shadows have offended,
    Think but this, and all is mended,
    That you have but slumbered here
    While these visions did appear.
    And this weak and idle theme,
    No more yielding but a dream,
    Gentles, do not reprehend:
    If you pardon, we will mend:
    And, as I am an honest Puck,
    If we have unearned luck
    Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
    We will make amends ere long;
    Else the Puck a liar call;
    So, good night unto you all.
    Give me your hands, if we be friends,
    And Robin shall restore amends.
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

    1 hr 2 min
  • 157. Depression

    Well, maybe it's the time of year

    Or maybe it's the time of man
    I don't know who l am
    But you know life is for learning
    Joni Mitchel, “Woodstock”

    The days are short, temps are cold, energy is low, tempers may be short…several icons to us older folk already have passed as the new year begins. And if you read the news…

    Oh, yeah, and that pandemic thing.

    Lots of us - teachers and students - are DOWN.

    Let’s just say the word. Depression. As a teacher, you’re more vulnerable than most. How does it hit us and what can we do about it when it does?

    Links:

  • Teachers - The forgotten frontline of the pandemic: https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/news/teachers-the-forgotten-frontline-of-the-pandemic/
  • Mental health of teachers, teens takes big COVID-19 hit: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mental-health-teachers-teens-takes-big-covid-19-hit
  • Japan - for you or someone you know
    • Tokyo English Lifeline - 03-5774-0992 - 9 AM to 11 PM JST every day
    Crisis Text Line - "HELLO" to 741741
    Online Chat - : https://telljp.com/lifeline/ (hours vary)
  • USA
    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
    Crisis Text Line - "HELLO" to 741741
    Online Chat - : https://988lifeline.org/chat/
  • Other Countries
    • International Suicide Prevention - : https://findahelpline.com/i/iasp
    1 hr 10 min
  • 156. ChatGPT

    The sky is falling!

    Or, so you’d think from the reaction to Open AI’s public release of its ChatGPT "thing.” Tony and Charles try to make sense of what it is and what it isn’t and how it will and won’t change what we do in our teaching and in our students’ learning. It’s our goodbye to 2022 and our hello to 2023. Pedals down.
    Happy new year! あけましておめでとう！今年もよろしく！
    Links:

  • What is ChatGPT?: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-chatgpt/473664/
  • Lemme look: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
  • Human this Christmas: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/opinion/chatgpt-writing-ai.html
  • The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/
  • Samples of ChatGTP Output: http://tony-silva.com/t3/miscfiles/chatgtpoutput.pdf
    • 1 hr 11 min
  • 155. Gifts for the Teacher

    It’s holiday time for lots of people, and for most of them/us, that means buying gifts…and hopefully receiving, some, as well. Here’s our brainstorm session of gifts for the teacher in your life. As for your favorite podcasters, cash will do nicely.

    1 hr 3 min

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