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Thank you for checking out the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
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José Bowen shares about the second edition of Teaching with AI on episode 605 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I do think that we are going to have to figure out how to focus on student learning in an era where students have this new technology that will short-circuit the learning we want.
-José Bowen
My advice to people is that I know we’re overwhelmed, so don’t ask AI to do something you love. Ask AI to do something that you hate.
-José Bowen
The real problem with AI privacy is that now we have a tool that can mine all that, right? I’m more worried about AI as a tool for analysis and observation, and how that’s going to change the world in which we live.
-José Bowen
I think the potential is, you’re probably going to get more bias because people are going to use AI poorly. And so bias and privacy are two categories of ugly that are pretty big.
-José Bowen
Resources
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, second edition, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
We Teach with AI Website
Brilliant (courses Bonni mentioned that she is taking)
José Bowen on LinkedIn
Bonni Stachowiak on LinkedIn
Shell Game Podcast
Boodlebox
Ethan Mollick on LinkedIn
Anna Mills on LinkedIn
Sarah Elaine Eaton on LinkedIn
Krys Boyd on NPR’s Think
Bryan Alexander shares about Peak Higher Ed on episode 604 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
“It’s another form of thinking, it’s another form of organizing information and that we have to treat it seriously as such. The computer scientist actually recommends that we think about generative AI as children. These are AIs that have some degree of autonomy and they’re also not very wise in the world yet, and we have to train and rear them up.”
– Bryan Alexander
“So if AI is bubble, if it turns out to be a bubble and it pops, this might be bad news for the entire economy.”
– Bryan Alexander
“The problem of how do we actually figure out what people are doing with AI within post secondary education? That’s a really great challenge because if you polled people, they have all kinds of great incentives to not respond accurately.”
– Bryan Alexander
Resources
Peak Higher Ed, by Bryan Alexander: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis, by Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander’s Website
Maha Bali’s Blog
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜, by Emily M. Bender et al
Helen Beetham’s Newsletter: Imperfect Offerings
Pluralistic: Daily Links from Cory Doctorow
Faraday Cage
Georgetown University: Learning, Design, and Technology
John Warner
John Warner’s Newsletter
GTD – Workflow diagram
Todd’s AI Playground
Todd’s AI Songs About His Course Evaluations
Adam Tooze
Chartbook
Matthew Mahavongtrakul shares about active learning that engages all learners on episode 603 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You don’t need to change your entire course tomorrow. What is one simple thing that you can do that will push you on the path?
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul
“The number one kind of piece of pushback that I get from faculty is I just simply cannot cover everything.”
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul
“I think at the crux of it, it is the shift in mentality between us as being, as we say, the sage on the stage to being a facilitator in the classroom.”
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul
Resources
UC Irvine Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation’s Active Learning Institute
Stephen Brookfield
Todd Zakrajsek
You Care About It, Do It in Class: Why faculty members need to shift the balance of class time from first exposure to skills practice
Why Students Resist Learning with Anton Tolman on Episode 171
Notsu Notes
Lily Abadal’s workbook, outlining her process of having students write a research paper throughout her entire class
Bluesky post of Andrea Kaston Tange sharing about her reading scenario experimentation
POD Network Conference
C. Edward Watson shares about navigating AI’s rapid transformation in higher ed on episode 602 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I never include AI in the beginning of my processes.
-C. Edward Watson
There’s a lot of incremental shifts, but the increments are quite large.
-C. Edward Watson
I would argue that maybe this is the first time in the history of higher education that we have learning outcomes that are at war with one another.
-C. Edward Watson
We’ve never built a curriculum for something that’s changing so quickly. We’re being asked to keep up with this rate of change in a meaningful way that actually serves our students well.
-C. Edward Watson
Resources
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
Teaching with AI Website (Including Free Resources)
AAC&U Artificial Intelligence Resources
AAC&U Teaching with AI Workshops
AAC&U Report: The Agility Imperative: How Employers View Preparation for an Uncertain Future
Wharton School of Business Survey: How Are Companies Using Gen AI in 2025?
Shell Game Season Two
Caraway Cookware
Christopher Ostro discusses the AI grief cycle on episode 601 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The fact is there are things we’re grieving. Our job has profoundly changed in huge ways in a very short period of time.
-Christopher Ostro
Our traditional assessments suddenly are not working effectively like we used to think that they did.
-Christopher Ostro
I want my students to view me as a resource and as someone that they can trust.
-Christopher Ostro
When something makes me uncomfortable, I want to lean in and understand it better.
-Christopher Ostro
Resources
AI Grief Cycle Talk for CU, by Christoper Ostro
Slides for Chris’ AI Grief Cycle Talk
Mosaic Approach Docs from Christopher Ostro
Swiss Cheese (or Roumy Cheese) Model for Assessment/Assignments
Swiss Cheese Analogy for COVID-19 – Rumi Cheese Analogy for Inclusive Education, by Maha Bali
Daniel Stanford’s LinkedIn Post
Kristen Howerton
Bonni’s Go Somewhere AI Resources and Episodes
Chris’ AI Literacy Assignments
Goblin.Tools
Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet – The End of the World as We Know It
What AI Companions Are Missing, by Adam Grant
Chris’ CU AI Reading Group Reading List
Dave Stachowiak joins Bonni to explore 6 pedagogical practices from 600 episodes on episode 600 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When we stop aiming for perfection, we allow ourselves to then be fully present for others.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Practice 1: Start and end small.
Practice 2: Build courses around curiosity, not coverage.
Practice 3: Prioritize presence over perfection.
Practice 4: Focus on relationships.
Practice 5: Remember what is yours to do and what is not yours to do.
Practice 6: Focus on becoming.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Episodes with James Lang
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, 2nd Edition, by James M. Lang
Episodes with Tracie Addy
Who’s in Class Form
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
Episodes with Tolu Noah
Episode 404 – Annotation Is with Remi Kalir
Episodes with Mia Zamora and Alan Levine
Episode 577 – Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong with Jessamyn Neuhaus
Episodes with Jesse Stommel
Robert Talbert’s Intentional Academia
Episode 529 – Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms with James Lang
Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College, by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
Episode 331 – Relationship-Rich Education with Peter Felten and Leo Lambert
Episode 551 – Relationship-Rich Education at Scale with Peter Felten and Kassidy Puckett
Episodes with Karen Costa
Episode 454 – Mental Health and Well Being with Zainab Okolo
Episode 563 – Defy – The Power of Saying No in a World That Demands Yes with Sunita Suh
Episodes with Stephen Brookfield
Episodes with Kevin Gannon
Tripsy
Unsplash Wallpapers
Festivas
https://readwise.io/read
David Gooblar shares how better teaching can make college more equitable on episode 599 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Most of our scars are hidden. I think most of the time people don’t see the scars that we carry.
-David Gooblar
We get such a small window into our students lives.
-David Gooblar
The imaginary idea of the college student in America is of a privileged student. And that’s just not the case when we talk about American college students today.
-David Gooblar
We need to work to earn their trust, to convince our students that we’re working for them, that our job is to help them develop, learn, and grow.
-David Gooblar
Resources
One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable, by David Gooblar
Pedagogy Unbound: Weekly Thoughts on College Teaching from David Gooblar
Stereotype Threat
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Formation
Episode 585: Toward Socially Just Teaching with Bryan Dewsbury
The Mentor’s Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide, by Geoffrey L. Cohen, Claude M. Steele, & Lee D. Ross
Kagi Search
Clip from Decoder Episode with Cory Doctorow on Mastodon
The Verge: How Silicon Valley Enshittified the Internet with Cory Doctorow
Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms
Jeff Young shares clips from his Learning Curve Podcast regarding AI in higher education on episode 598 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is crazy to think of how much we’ve all learned about generative AI just in the last couple years.
-Jeff Young
I’ve been really interested in how students are thinking through AI and where their perspectives are. There is not one student view. You can find students that think all kinds of things.
-Jeff Young
Students are very aware of AI and they’re also very aware of how it’s changing the job market that they might enter.
-Jeff Young
One danger of these tools is that they give you such instant gratification. There’s a hit of dopamine.
-Jeff Young
Students are using AI tools, not just for academics. They’re experimenting with AI.
-Jeff Young
Resources
Learning Curve Podcast
Paul LeBlanc
Maha Bali
Students ‘will spend 25 years on their mobiles’ in The Times, by Mark Sellman
Google NotebookLM
Supporting Student Learning and Metacognition
Shell Game Podcast
Phonograph Podcast
Bonni Stachowiak shares about her card game, Go Somewhere: A game of metaphors, AI, and what comes next on episode 597 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of you have been asking me about this game that I’ve played now and facilitated at over 10 universities and conferences called Go Somewhere.
-Bonni Stachowiak
What the game allows people to do is to be a little bit playful, laugh, and smile as we explore very serious things.
-Bonni Stachowiak
It can be helpful to have a map when we think about all of the different ways that artificial intelligence might impact our teaching.
-Bonni Stachowiak
The other issue that comes up a lot as we start talking about artificial intelligence is how often it bumps up against our sense of identity.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Continue to learn, reflect, and keep moving. Go somewhere.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies, by Anuj Gupta, Yasser Atef, Anna Mills, & Maha Bali
Teaching in Higher Ed AI Resources and Episodes
All Aboard – Digital Skills Map (Ireland)
Where are the crescents in AI? by Maha Bali
Different Critiques of AI in Education, by Maha Bali
Critical AI Literacy is Not Enough: Introducing Care Literacy, Equity Literacy & Teaching Philosophies, by Maha Bali
Teaching AI Ethics, by Leon Furze
Scooby-Doo
AI Metaphors We Live By: The Language of Artificial Intelligence, by Leon Furze
Her (2013)
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots, by Bender, Gebru, et al.
Episode 576: The AI Con with Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna
The Princess Bride (1987)
Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations, by Anna Mills & Nate Angell
ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG, by Ted Chiang
Permission Slip, by Bryan Mathers from Visual Thinkery
How Will AI Impact Gen Z?
Christy Albright + Clarissa Sorensen Unruh share about teaching, learning, and the lessons of grief on episode 596 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Take two deep breaths.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh
None of the books that I researched on grief actually defined grief. It’s like they just assumed you knew what it was because it’s such a universal experience, but it’s not universally experienced by everybody in the same way.
-Christy Albright
Anticipatory grief is when you know something is coming and you’re already grieving that situation.
-Christy Albright
People assume that grief gets smaller, and actually we grow around it.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh
The big griefs in my life stay forever.
-Christy Albright
Resources
Bonni fact checks her anecdote about birds
Fractals: Is Hasan Smarter than a 13-year-old Math Genius
Peter Felten: Can We Teach Curiosity?
Resources for Grieving (Christy’s website)
Capsule
Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds
The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds
The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, by Karen Costa
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, by Karen Costa
Roberta Hawkins + Leslie Kern share about their book, Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University on episode 595 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We advise lots of different ways of rethinking our relationship with work in the book.
-Roberta Hawkins
You can’t solve institutional problems with individual sacrifices.
-Leslie Kern
We are not cogs in an institutional machine.
-Roberta Hawkins
One of the challenges, is the idea that our work is kind of a calling. It’s a passion project. The institution knows that we love our work and that we are passionate about our students and that we care about bringing great ideas to fruition in the world, so it will extract every little drop of that from you in terms of your time and energy.
-Leslie Kern
Invisibilized labor is an equity issue as well as a workload issue.
-Roberta Hawkins
Resources
Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make It Better for Others, and Transform the University, by Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern
What you didn’t learn in class: Revealing the hidden curriculum, by Lindsay Vreeland, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Northern Illinois University
Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose, by Martha Beck
Dave Stachowiak joins Bonni in remembering Ken Bain on episode 594 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Ken Bain was such good company to me and to countless people from around the world.
-Bonni Stachowiak
While I didn’t ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I’m so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he’s inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversation that was really needed.
-Dave Stachowiak
Resources
Post: James Lang Shares About Ken Bain’s Passing
Obituary of Kenneth R. Bain
Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do with Ken Bain
Episode 100: The Failure Episode
Episode 146: James Lang and Ken Bain on Motivation in the Classroom
Johannes Haushofer CV of Failures
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain
What the Best College Students Do, by Ken Bain
Carter Moulton shares about his Analog Inspiration (AI) card deck and human centered AI in the classroom on episode 593 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’m here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game.
-Carter Moulton
I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each other and wrestle with these moral and ethical questions.
-Carter Moulton
Those three questions underneath at the bottom of the card are really just trying to foster that critical thinking with students about what it is they’re making and what it is they’re doing and how they’re engaging with AI.
-Carter Moulton
I hope we don’t abandon the decades of research that has shown the benefits of peer learning, of caring, belonging, and relationships in the classroom.
-Carter Moulton
Resources
Analog Inspiration Card Deck
How to Play
Free Google Sheet for Discussions
Buy – Analog Inspiration Card Deck
Analog Inspiration Project Overview
Bonni’s Analog Inspiration Unboxing Video (YouTube)
Bonni awkwardly tries to mention HAL 9000 and WarGames and just clearly wasn’t ready for the moment 🤦♀️
Episode 585: Toward Socially Just Teaching Across Disciplines with Bryan Dewsbury
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier by David Yeager
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick
Donna H. Hicks – Dignity Researcher
Anna Mills’ PAIRR Resources
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
Human in the Loop (Wikipedia)
Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Learning Curve Podcast: What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? Hosted by Jeff Young with guests Paul LeBlanc and Maha Bali
Tolu Noah
Custom Playing Cards
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day, by Dan Nott
TiHE Recommendations Page
Cooking with Vegetables by Jessie Jenkins
First Generation, by Frankie Gaw
Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people’s motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley
Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley
Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley
Resources
Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act
Sway.AI
Barbara Oakley – Coursera Instructor Profile
Learning How to Learn
Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models
Barbara Oakley’s Website
Barbara Oakley – Wikipedia
Academy of Ideas: The Hidden Neuroscience of Democracy
A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley
Retrieval Practice (retrievalpractice.org)
Obsidian
How and Why I Use Obsidian, by Robert Talbert
SmarterHumans.ai
Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There’s a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class.
-Danny Oppenheimer
You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they attend. But they also hate you, and they hate the subject and they hate everything to do with the class.
-Danny Oppenheimer
If you give people choices, sometimes they make bad choices. Scaffolding choices can help people make choices that actually align with their preferences more effectively.
-Danny Oppenheimer
Students love being treated like adults. They love having choice. Everybody loves having choice. People don’t like other people telling them what to do.
-Danny Oppenheimer
In some sense students have a preference to attend class. And in some sense they have a preference to not attend class. Those preferences can coexist in some way.
-Simon Cullen
Resources
Choosing to learn: The importance of student autonomy in higher education, by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer
Are we overlooking the power of autonomy when it comes to motivating students? by Danny Oppenheimer
Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly, by Daniel M. Oppenheimer
Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act
Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes, by Alfie Kohn
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution, by Richard Wrangham
Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality, by T.N. Eyer
Mike Caulfield shares about using AI as a co-reasoning partner and his Deep Background tool on episode 590 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems.
-Mike Caulfield
AI doesn’t naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It’s a little bit of a bolt on afterthought.
-Mike Caulfield
Searching for information is a journey. How can we get the benefits of AI but still preserve that feeling of a journey?
-Mike Caulfield
I’m working on this issue of follow ups with AI. It is magic to get students to think of these responses as not a single transaction. They’re coaching the AI through a process, not to get a specific answer that they want, but to look at the sorts of sources that matter for the question.
-Mike Caulfield
Resources
Deep Background: A “Superprompt” to change the way you use LLMs
Reading the Room with SIFT Toolbox
New SIFT Toolbox Release (Substack)
SIFT Method (The Four Moves)
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
Interview with Mike Caulfield on Deep Background (AACE Review)
Is the LLM Response Wrong, or Have You Just Failed to Iterate It, by Mike Caulfield
Episode 492: Verified with Mike Caulfield on Teaching in Higher Ed
Starlight Bowl in San Diego
Sound of Music
“Everything Could Have Been a Huge Disaster”: Nathan Fielder on Making ‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2
It Runs Through Me, Tom Misch (feat. De La Soul)
Tom Misch: Tiny Desk Concert
Me Myself and I, De La Soul (1989)
The Magic Number, De La Soul (1989)
Reasonable People with Tom Stafford
Pétanque
The Richness of Podcasting in Higher Education, with Dom Conroy and Warren Kidd.
Quotes from the episode
There’s so many different ways to capture people’s imagination through an audio feed.
-Dom Conroy
When we’re creating podcasts, we are putting ourselves on the line.
-Dom Conroy
Education is a relational experience.
-Warren Kidd
The act of teaching is reflective and reflexive.
-Warren Kidd
Resources
Using Podcasts to Cultivate Learner–Teacher Rapport in Higher Education Settings, by Dominic Conroy & Warren Kidd
Optimizing Practitioner-Delivered Podcasts as Learning and Teaching Tools in Higher Education: Learner and Teacher Viewpoints, by Dom Conroy and Warren Kidd
International Podcast Day
Planet Money Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
S-Town Podcast: Chapter 1
BBC Radio
Walkman
The Wild Podcast: In Search of Silence
Good Robot Podcast
RCA podcast: Creative education through uncertainty
Emily Pitts Donahoe shares what we can learn about grades from an “emerging failure” on episode 588 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
They introduced a framework that attempts to identify the common features of alternative grading for growth systems that are meant to prioritize student growth and student learning over just grades and performance.
-Emily Donahoe
Those four pillars are marks that indicate progress, reattempts without penalty, clearly defined standards, and helpful feedback.
-Emily Donahoe
One of the most important functions of grades or marks given on individual assignments is to communicate to students about how they’re progressing in a certain subject. Traditional grades don’t serve this communicative function very well.
-Emily Donahoe
Resources
Unmaking the Grade, Emily Pitts Donahoe’s blog and reflective journal chronicling one educator’s experiences with ungrading and other progressive teaching practices
Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices That Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education, by Robert Talbert & David Clark
Grading for Growth
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, By Joshua R. Eyler
Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It, by Joshua R. Eyler
Harry Potter Wizards of Baking
Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Japanese restaurant at Irvine Spectrum all four of the Stachowiak family members like: Robata Wasa
Wicked
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, by Adam Becker
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
M. C. Flux uncovers lessons for video creation from what he calls layered learning on episode 587 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’ve also started creating these little quiz questions in them, but they’re not hard. They’re just to keep their attention going.
-M. C. Flux
Many students seem to enjoy this and actually learn well from it, so I keep doing it.
-M. C. Flux
I think these students struggle so much with attention that bringing them back with a really simple question just helps.
-M. C. Flux
The fact that students have shorter attention spans is still something we need to pay attention to. I don’t think it’s as bad as people say, but it is actually still a big piece of how I design instruction.
-M. C. Flux
A lot of students are used to rewatching things that they enjoy.
-M. C. Flux
Resources
Video: Education as Content, by Dr. Flux
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, by Priya Parker
Preferences vs. What Works, by Robert Talbert
Song: Leave it Like it Is, by David Wilcox
Episode 555: A Big Picture Look at AI Detection Tools with Chris Ostro
LinkedIn: Christopher Ostro
LinkedIn: Dr. MC Flux
Netflix Special: Bo Burnham Inside
DJI Osmo Mobile 7P
Insta360 Flow Pro
HollyLand Lark Microphones
Games: Agency as Art, by C Thi Nguyen
Seth Offenbach shares about his article, Kindness and Community in an Online Asynchronous Classroom, on episode 586 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I had to recognize the reality that my classroom was never going to be the number one priority for people during the pandemic.
-Seth Offenbach
When we teach, why not be kind?
-Seth Offenbach
My goal is to challenge my students intellectually. My goal is not to stress them out.
-Seth Offenbach
We all miss deadlines.
-Seth Offenbach
In order to truly be kind, you have to create a safe space for the students where they feel that they can come to you, talk to you and learn with you.
-Seth Offenbach
Resources
Kindness and Community in an Online Asynchronous Classroom, by Seth Offenbach
Currents in Teaching and Learning – January 2025 edition
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, by Kevin M. Gannon
The Social Justice Syllabus Design Tool: A First Step in Doing Social Justice Pedagogy, by Sherria D. Taylor and Maria J. Veri
Feeling Better: A Year without Deadlines, by Doreen Thierauf
A Pedagogy of Kindness, by Catherine Denial
Cultivating Compassionate Community to Foster Academic Integrity?, by Maha Bali and Yasser Tammer
An Equity Syllabus
Liquid Syllabus, by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Jesse Stommel
The Practice of Ungrading, by Jesse Stommel
Remi Kalir’s Annotated Syllabus
Go Ahead and Ask for More Time on That Deadline, by Ashley Whillans
A Pedagogy of Kindness: The Cornerstone for Student Learning and Wellness, by Fiona Rawle
Effect of Syllabus Tone: Students’ Perceptions of Instructor and Course, by Harnish & Bridges
Replacing Power with Flexible Structure: Implementing Flexible Deadlines to Improve Student Learning Experiences, by Hills & Peacock
Enhancing Social Presence in Online Learning, by Joyce & Brown
The 1:1 method, by Seth Godin
Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo




great points made😍 Enjoyed it. thank you
that was great! thank you both
I love the idea that to ignite learning start with application or real life problems and then learners will be keen to master the theory that supports the interesting problem they've been presented with