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Jan 19, 2017 • 40min

Teaching Naked Techniques

Jose Bowen reveals Teaching Naked Techniques on episode #136 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Good teaching always starts with what matters to your students. —Jose Bowen What I really want is for my students to all find their own voice. —Jose Bowen This is going to be challenging … and I know you can do it. —Jose Bowen Students learn more when they believe the teacher cares about learning. —Jose Bowen Resources Mentioned Episode #030 with Jose Bowen on Teaching Naked Teaching Naked Techniques* by Jose Bowen and C. Edward Watson Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning* by Jose Bowen and C. Edward Watson The New Science of Learning: How to Live in Harmony with Your Brain* by Terry Doyle, Todd Zakrajsek, and Jeannie H. Loeb S.W.E.E.T (sleep, water, eating, exercise, and time) Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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Jan 12, 2017 • 33min

The Spark of Learning

Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion* on episode #135 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned Caring isn’t Coddling by Sarah Rose Cavanagh VALUE rubrics from the Association of American Colleges and Universities Planet Money Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark C. Carnes Episode 21: Minds on Fire with Marc Carnes Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning* by James Lang
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Jan 5, 2017 • 32min

Teaching Creativity

Hoda Mostafa discusses teaching creativity on episode 134 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Relevance and meaning are so important for the students I teach. —Hoda Mostafa I had to figure out ways to learn things without relying too much on memorization. —Hoda Mostafa You have to guide students through the process of learning how to think. —Hoda Mostafa Students get engaged when it’s meaningful to them. —Hoda Mostafa Resources Mentioned TIHE Episode 132: Teach Students How to Learn Edward de Bono’s work on Thinking Tools Creative Problem Solving Tim Brown on creative confidence TED Talk: On Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz Syllabus: Scientific Thinking Course Syllabus: Creative Cairo: Human Centered Design (co-taught with Maha Bali) Slide:ology* by Nancy Duarte Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions* by Stephen Brookfield Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (Volume 2) 5th Edition* by Diane Halpem Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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Dec 29, 2016 • 25min

My 2017 Someday-Maybe Tech List

Bonni Stachowiak reveals what’s on her someday/maybe tech list on episode 133 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned TIHE Episode #120 with Robert Talbert about Getting Things Done Sanebox Amphetamine (Mac) / Windows alternatives Harvard’s H20 Mother blogs YouCanBook.Me Planboard Kahoot team mode Backdraft for Tweets during presentation IFTTT Expert Level Text Expander Snippets Moom (Mac) Better touch Tool (Mac) Just Dance Now Apple TV game (recommended by Doug McKee) Collaborative Annotating Omnifocus Hotspot for Grading (Mac) Activity (iOS and Apple Watch)
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Dec 22, 2016 • 38min

Teach Students How to Learn

Saundra Y. McGuire discusses how to teach students how to learn on episode 132 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Learning is a process, not an activity. –Saundra Y. McGuire Physical activity is really important to having the brain operate at peak efficiency. –Saundra Y. McGuire Pretending that you’re teaching information is a great way to practice retrieval of that information. –Saundra Y. McGuire Students who may be failing our courses miserably are not failing because they are not capable; they are failing because they don’t have strategies to successfully manage the information. –Saundra Y. McGuire When we believe it’s possible, then we can help students believe it’s possible. –Saundra Y. McGuire Resources Mentioned Teach Students How to Learn* by Saundra Y. McGuire Louisiana State University’s Center for Academic Success Mindset: The New Psychology of Success* by Carol Dweck Bloom’s taxonomy Earnest Everest Just ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices 150 ways to increase intrinsic motivation in the classrooms* by James P. Raffini Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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Dec 15, 2016 • 34min

Peer Review of Teaching

Isabeau Iqbal shares about the peer review of teaching on episode #131 of Teaching in Higher Ed. Quotes from the episode Formative peer reviews of teaching offer the opportunity for growth for both the reviewer and the reviewee. –Isabeau Iqbal Despite the fact that you might have decades of experience and high student evaluations of teaching, it’s still nerve-wracking. –Isabeau Iqbal There are best practices in peer review, but often those don’t get followed. –Isabeau Iqbal Resources Mentioned UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s Formative Peer Review of Teaching Resources Isabeau Iqbal’s Publications on Peer Review of Teaching and Dissertation Josh Eyler and others tweet about Faculty Owl Days at Rice University On Being Observed by David Gooblar Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching’s Peer Review of Teaching Post Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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Dec 8, 2016 • 36min

Digital Redlining and Privacy

Chris Gilliard talks about digital redlining and privacy on episode 130 of Teaching in Higher Ed. Quotes from the episode Unless you have a really keen understanding of how filtering works, you often don’t know what you’re not getting. –Chris Gilliard Both with faculty and students, the awareness of how closely we’re watched when we’re on networks is not high. –Chris Gilliard Digital redlining is tech policies, practices, pedagogy, and investment decisions that reinforce class and race boundaries. –Chris Gilliard Resources Mentioned Black Box Society* by Frank Pasquale Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy Gross Pointe Blank 8 Mile The Case for Reparations by Ta Nehasi Coates TIHE 130: Undercover Professor Episode (Mike Cross) Sarah Goldrick-Rab Tresse McMillian Cottom Joe Murphy recommended we watch Chris’ talk at Boston University
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Dec 1, 2016 • 37min

The Shared Journey

Bill Dogterom shares about mentoring and the shared journey on episode #129 of Teaching in Higher Ed. Quotes from the episode If they know that you really do have their best interests at heart, they’ll teach you how to teach them. –Bill Dogterom What I like to do most is to walk with people and to learn from them as much as they learn from me. –Bill Dogterom For me, it’s more of a shared journey than a pure mentor relationship. –Bill Dogterom If they know that you’re actually listening to them, they will let you into their story. –Bill Dogterom Resources Mentioned “People are not problems to solve, but mysteries to explore.” -Eugene Peterson The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth* by Gerald G. May Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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Nov 23, 2016 • 29min

Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference Recap

Bonni Stachowiak shares about her experience at the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Conference on episode #128 of Teaching in Higher Ed. Resources Mentioned OLC Accelerate 2016 Conference Research in Action podcast Periscope HigherEdScope Learning Lab Show Podcast Recommendations from the #podpanel TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast Women Who Wine in Education DACA Bonni’s OLC Conference Session Materials Minerva Schools Slideology* by Nancy Duarte OpenEd 2016 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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Nov 17, 2016 • 22min

Retrieval Practice Tools

Bonni Stachowiak shares about retrieval practice tools on episode #127 of Teaching in Higher Ed. Quotes from the episode When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into our students’ heads. What if instead we focus on getting information out of our students’ heads? —Pooja Agarwal Forgetting is the friend of learning. —Robert Bjork As we use our memories, the things that we recall become more recallable. —Robert Bjork Resources Mentioned Episode 194: Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal Episode 072: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning with Robert Bjork Remind Poll Everywhere Slido Kahoot OLC Conference Session Website and Materials Retrieval Practice website Humorous note from Andrew, our podcast editor, to Bonni, that was too good not to share here: “That ‘get back up again’ song has got nothing on the original inspirational song“

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