What Learning Looks Like – Détails, épisodes et analyse

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and University Learning Center director Christopher Whitehead, who is Assistant Dean for Academic Support & Development in the College of Arts & Science. 

Show notes

• Chris’s Gen Chem 1 Vlog: ​​

• Kyla Scanlon, “The Most Valuable Quality in the World Is Friction” https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the 

• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014) 

• How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, Benedict Cary (20140.

• Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert Bjork https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/04/EBjork_RBjork_2011.pdf 

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Professor Eugene Plavskin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Biology. Eugene is course director for the Principles of Biology introductory course, which has more than 700 students each fall.

Show Notes

• "Enhancing Student Success:  Using Peer-Led Video Modules to Teach Metacognition & the Hidden Curriculum in a Large Enrollment Introductory Biology Course"

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Scott Palmer, Senior Coordinator for Digital Learning and Innovation at NYU’s La Pietra campus in Florence, Italy. Scott has been a professor and administrator at La Pietra for more than two decades. 

Show Notes

• Walker Percy, “The Loss of the Creature” https://archive.org/details/loss_creature/page/n3/mode/2up 

• Florence Underground, NYU Florence Student Radio Project https://www.novaradio.info/programmi/nyu-florence-radio/ Radio Assignment Rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNNj0ZLMXcuzlcPEzwc4KU0q7cve91lP5qJgdQNdCDE/edit?tab=t.0 

• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson (1983).

• “Political Objects: Blending Cultural Analysis and Artistic Production” by Scott Palmer, https://wp.nyu.edu/ls-thinkglobalteachlocal/2018/05/04/political-objects-blending-cultural-analysis-and-artistic-production/

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John O’Hara, Director of Faculty Engagement and Program Innovation in the College of Arts & Science’s Office of Academic Affairs. 

Show Notes

• American Association of Colleges & Universities: High Impact Practices 
• NYU College of Arts & Science First Year Seminar Program
• John Gardner, Launching the First Year Experience Movement  

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John Henssler, Clinical Professor and Director of Undergraduate Organic Teaching Laboratories in the NYU Chemistry Department.

Show Notes

• Learn more about Professor John Henssler

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Bridget McFarland, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Expository Writing Program at NYU, who has been using alternative or contract grading in her first year writing course for the past four years. 

Show Notes

• Mercer Street:  https://wp.nyu.edu/mercerstreet/
• EWP Course Objectives: https://cas.nyu.edu/ewp/ewp-courses.html
• Asao B. Inoue, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, 2nd Edition”
• DasBender, Gita, Mickelson, Nate, Souffrant, Leah. “Contract Grading and the Development of an Efficacious Writerly Habitus” (2023) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c4979b8

A conversation with Amanda Irvin, Executive Director of the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning.

Show Notes: 

• Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning podcast
• Mitchell J. Nathan, Kenneth R. Koedinger, and Martha W. Alibali, “Expert Blind Spot: When Content Knowledge Eclipses Pedagogical Content Knowledge”
• Joshua Eyler: https://olemiss.edu/profiles/jreyler.php
• Jesse Stommel: www.jessestommel.com/books/
• Todd Zakrajsek: https://www.toddzakrajsek.com/publications
• The Critical Thinking Institute at UC Berkeley
• Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
• Alfredo Spagna: https://podcast.show/dead-ideas/episode/94165225/ 
• Michelle Miller: https://www.michellemillerphd.com/books 
• Carl Weiman: https://profiles.stanford.edu/carl-wieman?tab=publications