Explore every episode of the podcast S.A.F.E. Topics
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| Sean Goes to a Punk Show | 22 May 2023 | 00:45:16 | |
Sean and curry take a break from talking about books to explore the learning (and moshpits) modeled at punk rock festivals. | |||
| Prepping for the Punk Rock Show | 11 May 2023 | 00:29:38 | |
Sean and curry talk about NoFX's "180 Degrees" song to prepare to attend a punk rock show. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| Critical Comforts in the Land of Digital Pedagogy | 04 May 2023 | 01:06:03 | |
Sean teases curry's lack of stimulating course design as they discuss ”Digital Critical Pedagogy" from An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| WritingwithMachines: Valuing Biliterate Brains | 01 May 2023 | 00:54:11 | |
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition.
In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I reflect on the literacy skills and reading processes we teach in our composition classes. To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/ | |||
| Inclusive? Mechanized? Teaching. Our part 2 response to ”Not Enough Voices” | 20 Apr 2023 | 00:56:21 | |
Sean and curry take a second attempt to discuss Sean Michael Morris' ”Not Enough Voices," in An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| WritingwithMachines: Reading, Attention, and Thinking-about-Thinking | 17 Apr 2023 | 00:57:17 | |
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition.
In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore how our experiences reading in different modalities form our thinking, writing, and metacognition. To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/ | |||
| WritingwithMachines: Voice, Bias, and Templates | 10 Apr 2023 | 00:58:07 | |
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore the writer’s voice, technique, and materials that encode values, and ask: what shapes human expression? To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/ | |||
| Not Enough Time for ”Not Enough Voices” | 06 Apr 2023 | 00:24:32 | |
Sean and curry discuss Sean Michael Morris' ”Not Enough Voices," in An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| WritingwithMachines: Surfaces, Tools, and Affordances | 03 Apr 2023 | 00:55:27 | |
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore technologies in history that have shifted the way writers process and produce texts. To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/ | |||
| WritingwithMachines: BYO Article on ChatGPT | 30 Mar 2023 | 00:58:27 | |
Hey Safe Topics listeners. This episode is a crossover with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. Our content needs a new home, and Sean and I feel the issues and pedagogies we talk about in WritingwithMachines fits well here in SAFE Topics. Hope you like enjoy :-) In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore articles, podcasts, or other sources that help us think about generative AI tools To explore more, check out our blog post for this episode and others at https://wordpress.miracosta.edu/writingwithmachines/ | |||
| curry Goes to Jiu Jitsu | 16 Mar 2023 | 00:36:59 | |
Sean and curry take a brief break from talking about books to explore the teaching and learning (and choke-holds) modeled in Jiu Jitsu training. | |||
| Classrooms of Possibilities, our concluding response to Teaching to Transgress | 02 Mar 2023 | 00:56:29 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Confronting Class," "Eros, Eroticism..." and "Ecstacy" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| We Have Bodies; We Work in the Classroom, our Part 2 response to ”Building a Teaching Community” | 25 Feb 2023 | 00:44:45 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Building a Teaching Community" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| A Project We Work On Together, our Part 1 response to ”Building a Teaching Community” | 17 Feb 2023 | 00:42:29 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Building a Teaching Community" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| Languages We Use, our response to bell hooks’chapters 9 and 11 | 09 Feb 2023 | 00:52:59 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Feminist Scholarship” and "Language" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| The Voices and How We Listen, our response to bell hooks’chapters 7 and 8 | 05 Jan 2023 | 00:54:31 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter ”Holding My Sister's Hand” and "Feminist Thinking" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| Layers, our response to bell hooks’ ”Essentialism and Experience” | 23 Dec 2022 | 01:08:01 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter ”Essentialism and Experience” in Teaching to Transgress.
Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| There’s No Place Like Theory, our response to bell hooks’ ”Theory as Liberatory Practice” | 16 Dec 2022 | 00:37:04 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter "Theory as Liberatory Practice" in Teaching to Transgress.
Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| Tapestry Thinking, our response to bell hooks’ ”Paulo Freire” | 08 Dec 2022 | 00:52:51 | |
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter "Paulo Freire" in Teaching to Transgress.
Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com | |||
| Why Go to College? | 01 Dec 2022 | 00:35:36 | |
In this episode, Sean and curry share their stories about going to college and discuss how their experiences may be similar and different for people thinking about college in a post-pandemic era. We will return to our conversation on bell hook's Teaching to Trangsress soon. Next chapter, "Paulo Freire"! Can't wait! | |||
| Values and Change, Our Ongoing Convo about bell hook’s Teaching to Transgress | 24 Nov 2022 | 00:53:18 | |
Sean and curry finish discussing bell hook's "A Revolution of Values" and "Embracing Change," Teaching to Transgress.
Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com
Thanks for listening! | |||
| Vulnerability and Self-actualization, Our Part 2 Response to bell hook’s ”Engaged Pedagogy” | 18 Nov 2022 | 00:48:55 | |
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's "Engaged Teaching," Teaching to Transgress. Sean and curry finish discussing the chapter as they strive to know and think about how to apply hook's call to vulnerability and self-actualization. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com Thanks for listening! | |||
| ”Teaching as a Practice of Freedom,” Our Part 1 Response to bell hook’s ”Engaged Pedagogy” | 11 Nov 2022 | 00:48:34 | |
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's "Engaged Teaching," Teaching to Transgress. Sean and curry can barely make it through a few pages as they grapple with hook's call to "teaching as a practice of freedom." Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com Thanks for listening!
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| A Pedagogy of Being and Becoming from bell hook’s ”Introduction,” Teaching to Transgress | 03 Nov 2022 | 01:02:44 | |
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's Teaching to Transgress, starting with her "Introduction." Sean and curry reflect on what it means to be and become engaged in the classroom. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email safetopics@gmail.com Thanks for listening!
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| A.I. is(n’t) a Cheating, Writing Tool | 28 Oct 2022 | 00:36:09 | |
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about an NYT article by Kevin Roose titled, "We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting," because websites that write papers for students is alarming and because websites that write papers for students is amazing. Read Roose's article (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/ai-technology-progress.html) Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/safetopics Finally, here's some more cool, nerdy teacher stuff written after Sean and curry recorded this episode: AI-Generated Essays Are Nothing to Worry About (https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/10/24/ai-generated-essays-are-nothing-worry-about-opinion)
Machines Can Craft Essays. How Should Writing Be Taught Now? (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/10/26/machines-can-craft-essays-how-should-writing-be-taught-now)
Thanks for listening!
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| HyFlexing - WTF was HyFlex? Students Speak! | 31 Dec 2021 | 00:51:00 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking with Sean's students about their experiences and ideas about teaching and learning in flexible, hybrid modalities. | |||
| HyFlexing: Approaching Finals | 10 Dec 2021 | 00:38:17 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about lessons learned in content delivery and building community in parallel modalities. | |||
| HyFlexing: Midsemester | 03 Dec 2021 | 00:33:28 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about the student experiences with content and the teacher experiences with assessment at the midsemester moment. | |||
| HyFlexing: The First Few Weeks | 26 Nov 2021 | 00:35:28 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about what class community looks like and what role assessment plays when you teach this shit for the first time. | |||
| HyFlexing: Assessing Assessment | 19 Nov 2021 | 00:30:50 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about contract grading, rubrics, and the roles teachers play as coaches and building inspectors. | |||
| Unlearn Grading to Ungrade Learning: Part 1 | 16 Nov 2021 | 01:03:52 | |
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team had a conversation with faculty members on the topic of ungrading. We explore ideas like deconstructing traditional grading, assessment being a conversation, meeting resistance, and self reflections. Join hosts Sean and curry alongside Joe Salamon (Physical Science), Chad Tsuyuki (English), Virginia “Gin” Schwarz (English & Literature), and James Garcia (Sociology) as we talk about the world of ungrading. This episode is one for the books! Keep an eye out for Part 2 coming in the Spring ‘22 semester! | |||
| HyFlexing: Cultivating Community | 12 Nov 2021 | 00:28:40 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about how to tend community-spaces in synchronous and asynchronous activities. | |||
| HyFlexing: Creating Content | 05 Nov 2021 | 00:20:33 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about instruction, media, and student generated content they have planned for their fall courses. | |||
| Down with Spring Break | 02 Nov 2021 | 00:48:06 | |
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team host a debate among with MiraCosta students and faculty over spring break. We ask why about the value of breaks and the costs of interruptions. We share the realities of workloads carried into breaks. And question what exactly it is we need a break from in the first place. Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with Daniel Ante-Contreras (English), Carson Arias (mechanical engineering major), and Kayla Kamani (psychology & film major) in an argument over keeping or abandoning spring break! | |||
| HyFlexing: What‘s Sean Gonna Teach? | 29 Oct 2021 | 00:24:48 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about what tools, methods, and creative solutions seem doable this first go-around. | |||
| HyFlexing: WTF is HyFlex?! | 22 Oct 2021 | 00:25:43 | |
…and how do you spell it? Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about research, common practices, and what seems worth trying. | |||
| Why Ethnic Studies? | 19 Oct 2021 | 01:01:25 | |
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team has a conversation with faculty leaders at MiraCosta who are charged with developing an Ethnic Studies program. We ask why about the political context, the timing, and the salient characteristics of Ethnic Studies, and how an Ethnic Studies department will benefit students and faculty campus-wide. Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with Maria Figueroa (English), JahB Prescott (English), Tyrone Nagai (English), Alicia Lopez (Sociology), and Steven Moreno-Terrill (Sociology) as we get into this topic! | |||
| Hyflexing: The COR of Your Class | 15 Oct 2021 | 00:31:43 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about the course outline of the record. | |||
| HyFlexing: Designing a New Course | 08 Oct 2021 | 00:29:28 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by thinking first about the awesome learning moments we design for (in any course we teach). | |||
| A New Mini-Series: HyFlexing | 08 Oct 2021 | 00:03:55 | |
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing, starting with how to make a podcast about our process. | |||
| Back to Campus! Kinda... | 06 Oct 2021 | 01:07:25 | |
The SAFE Topics team is back! We are kicking off season 3 with a series of interviews with some folks around the MiraCosta College campus. The team interviewed students, staff and faculty about their experiences about what’s making them happy to be on campus and some of the realities we’re still dealing with. Join hosts Sean, curry and Mana in our season 3 premiere episode! | |||
| Student Voices with Mana and Kayla | 02 Jun 2021 | 00:28:09 | |
In this finale episode, we end the season with student voices discussing the good and bad of the distant learning experience during the past year. Our host Mana is joined by an Associated Student Government (ASG) colleague, Kayla, to talk about online learning in the past year and the challenges that students had to overcome to become successful. At the end of this episode, our hosts have a special message for all of our listeners. Join us in our season two finale episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, and thank you all for your ongoing support! | |||
| Linguistic Bias - Part 2 | 20 May 2021 | 00:33:13 | |
On this episode, the SAFE Topics team continues its conversation with faculty on the topic of linguistic bias! The question we started with was: how do we welcome diverse voices and prevent privileging one dialect over the other? Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with Maria Figueroa (English), Denise Stephenson (Director of Writing Center), Eric Robertson (Communication Studies), and Andrea Petri (International Languages) as we go into part two of this great episode! | |||
| Linguistic Bias - Part 1 | 15 May 2021 | 00:57:47 | |
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team has a conversation with faculty on the topic of linguistic bias! The question we ask is how do we welcome diverse voices and prevent privileging one dialect over the other? Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with Maria Figueroa (English), Denise Stephenson (Director of Writing Center), Eric Robertson (Communication Studies), and Andrea Petri (International Languages) as we go into part one of this great episode! | |||
| Live Show with ASE Leaders | 07 May 2021 | 00:52:32 | |
In this episode, the SAFE Topics Podcast team went live during the Equity Online day put on by the C3 Teaching and Learning Center and Online Education and were joined by leaders from the Academic Success and Equity (ASE) program to talk about their experiences and adjustments over the last year. Join hosts Sean, curry and Mana and special guests Don Love (Coordinator and Counselor of Umoja), Coach Keli Ross-Ma’u (Coordinator and Counselor of Mana; Coach of Rugby Team), and Cindy Arce (Interim Student Services Coordinator for ASE) as we go over the hardships, challenges and positives of the past year. | |||
| All the Cs - A Visit From the Cultural Curriculum Collective, Part 2 | 30 Apr 2021 | 00:40:53 | |
In part two of this episode, “All the C’s - A Visit from the Cultural Curriculum Collective,” the SAFE Topics Podcast team continues the one word conversation about classrooms. Join our hosts Sean, curry and Mana as they get into the topic of classrooms with Shawntae Mitchum (Sociology), JahB Prescott (Letters), and Angela Senigaglia (AHS English)! | |||
| All the Cs - A Visit From the Cultural Curriculum Collective, Part 1 | 24 Apr 2021 | 00:48:19 | |
In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, we are joined by faculty members from MiraCosta’s Cultural Curriculum Collective (CCC) to have a one word conversation about classrooms. Join our hosts Sean, curry and Mana as they get into the topic of classrooms with Shawntae Mitchum (Sociology), JahB Prescott (Letters), and Angela Senigaglia (AHS English)! Listen in to part one of this two part episode! | |||
| Space for ASE Students to Set the Pace: Creating Culture in the Classroom, Part 2 | 17 Apr 2021 | 00:29:54 | |
Part two is here! Our latest episode with students was so good that once again we had to split it into two parts. Continuing on in this episode, we are joined by students from various Academic Success and Equity (ASE) Programs to talk about creating culture in the classroom! Our hosts Sean, curry and Mana are joined by several students including Helen Leinani Highland-Coslow (Mana, English/Literature), Dannia Saldivar (Mana, Liberal Arts: Math and Science), Jose Luis Mendez (UPRISE, Film/Theater), Jocelyn Rogers (RAFFY, Communication), Natalie Salgado (PUENTE, Sociology), Ian Clark (Umoja, Spanish), and Campbell Reyes (Mana, Art History). Join us in listening to part two! | |||
| Space for ASE Students to Set the Pace: Creating Culture in the Classroom, Part 1 | 09 Apr 2021 | 01:00:10 | |
The student voices are back! In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, we are joined by students from various Academic Success and Equity (ASE) Programs to talk about creating culture in the classroom! Our hosts Sean, curry and Mana are joined by several students including Helen Leinani Highland-Coslow (MANA, English/Literature), Dannia Saldivar (MANA, Liberal Arts: Math and Science), Jose Luis Mendez (UPRISE, Film/Theater), Jocelyn Rogers (RAFFY, Communication), Natalie Salgado (PUENTE, Sociology), Ian Clark (UMOJA, Spanish), and Campbell Reyes (MANA, Art History). Let’s listen and learn from these students. | |||
| Cameras On vs. Cameras Off: Blank Boxes & Framing Faces | 02 Apr 2021 | 01:05:24 | |
In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, the team goes into the topic of anonymity in the classroom. Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with our special guests, Tyrone Nagai (Letters and Pre-Transfer), Krista Byrd (Psychology), and David Bonds (Mathematics) as they get into the topic of having cameras on vs. having cameras off. | |||