Teaching in Higher Ed – Details, episodes & analysis

Josh Eyler shares even more problems with grades on episode 533 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Being a dad who is an educator takes things from the academic and intellectual and brings them immediately to the surface, to the real world and to the real consequences for students and families.
-Josh Eyler

The conflict between what we think and what we value and what we want for our kids and what the world and our school systems say are important can sometimes be almost irreconcilable.
-Josh Eyler

We need to create environments that will cultivate intrinsic motivation.
-Josh Eyler

In situations where grades are given, students tend to be more fearful of making mistakes. They produce more behaviors of trying to get the grade rather than learning.
-Josh Eyler

Grades are not objective accurate measurements of learning according to this research.
-Josh Eyler

If grades don’t measure what they’re supposed to measure, why are we using them, and why are we putting so much pressure on them?
-Josh Eyler

• Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It, by Josh Eyler
• How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler
• Kariann Fuqua
• Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, by Sara Rose Cavanaugh
• Coaching for Leaders Episode 310: How to Reduce Drama With Kids, with Tina Payne Bryson
• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Revised), by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen*
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne*
• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’S, Praise, and Other Bribes, by Alfie Kohn*
• A meta-analysis on the impact of grades and comments on academic motivation and achievement: A case for written feedback, by Alison Koenka, et al.
• A Century of Grading Research: Meaning and Value in the Most Common Educational Measure, by Susan M. Brookhart, Thomas R. Guskey, et al.
• The Math Wars: Timed Tests, Math Anxiety, and the Battle Over How We Teach Our Kids, by Joshua Eyler for The Saturday Evening Post
• Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (But Don’t Have To) , by Jack Schneider & Ethan L. Hutt *
• The Test , by Anya Kamenetz 
• Lower Ed, by Tressie McMillan Cottom*

Mylien Duong discusses strategies for facilitating contentious conversations in your classroom on episode 532 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We were never really trained to have these difficult conversations. We were not really trained as instructors to facilitate these conversations.
-Mylien Duong

It is not realistic to not prepare our students to be civically engaged and be able to engage and work with people who are different from them who don’t share the same beliefs that they do.
-Mylien Duong

My goal is to help students to fully understand students, to help them clarify their own thinking, and to ensure and to help them communicate that to the rest of the class.
-Mylien Duong

• Constructive Dialog Institute
• Foundations in Facilitating Dialog Course
• Maintaining Campus Community During the 2024 Election: A Guide for Leaders, Faculty, and Staff, by Mary Aviles & Mylien Duong, PhD
• Successful classroom discussions begin long before anyone speaks for Times Higher Education, by Mylien Duong and Jacob Fay
• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, by Stephen D. Brookfield
• Use Perplexity AI to Evaluate Health Information
• Cyclic sighing

Judith Dutill talks about communication literacy in the age of AI on episode 523 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

In the college classroom, we don’t often emphasize that type of communication as a skill that’s worth teaching, talking about, assessing, and we focus instead on more formal types of communication.
-Judith Dutill

Communication is a very subjective thing, but I think there is a common definition that we could all agree on that effective communication is creating meaning and being understood.
-Judith Dutill

As we develop in higher education, many of us believe in multiple literacies.
-Judith Dutill

If your discipline involves speaking and listening, communication is at the center of it.
-Judith Dutill

• National Communication Association
• Communication Learning Outcomes
• Watergate
• Karen Costa
• Emergent Strategy, by adriene maree brown
• Take an improv class

Cathy Davidson + Christina Katopodis talk about their new book, The New College Classroom, on episode 433 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Active learning is about structuring class so that students have more autonomy and control of their learning.
-Christina Katopodis

It takes time to unlearn traditional structures that have been ingrained in us.
-Christina Katopodis

• The New College Classroom, by Cathy N. Davidson & Christina Katopodis*
• Cathy Davidson Named Senior Adviser on Transformation to CUNY Chancellor
• Video: The Backwards Bicycle
• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), by Susan D. Blum*
• Charles William Eliot
• Sarah J. Schendel
• Audre Lorde quote about aphids

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about our top tools for learning votes on episode 432 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Each year, I look forward to reviewing the results of Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning and to submitting my votes for a personal Top Tools for Learning list.

-Bonni Stachowiak

• Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning
• Mike Taylor’s 2022 Top Tools for Learning votes.
• Zoom
• speaking engagements
• How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary and a sample summary from an AAEEBL Meetup
• Personal knowledge mastery system
• Overcast received a major design overhaul in March of 2022
• Unread
• Inoreader
• Mela
• Twitter – tv/movie recommendations, or learning from those in the disability community
• Raindrop– How Bonni uses Raindrop – Dave’s shared Raindrop.io digital bookmarks
• Hypothes.is
• PollEverywhere
• Karen E. Caldwell’s Learning Out Loud TEDx Talk
• Karen E. Caldwell’s Learning Out Loud Workshop
• Padlet
• Loom – verify your Loom account as an educator
• Canva
• WordPress
• Naomi Kasa – the page she created with all my upcoming and past speaking engagements – my resources page for a recent speaking engagement
• Blubrry

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”

Maha Bali, Mia Zamora, and Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh share lessong about community and joy from MYFest on episode 431 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

What educators need most right now is to come together as a community and learn in ways that are different than we ever have before.
-Maha Bali

If we don’t take the time to process and reflect upon the things that have happened to us we lose them.
-Mia Zamora

• Online Does Not Mean Isolated, by Maha Bali, George Station, and Mia Zamora for Inside Higher Ed
• MYFest 2022 via Equity Unbound
• FOMO
• Padlet
• Jamboard
• Karen Costa
• Ungrading track
• Digital literacies pathway
• Daily Create
• Equity Unbound
• Community building resources

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”

Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas for how to grade creative assignments on episode 430 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Alternative assignments can often be messy, but the rewards for students and teachers can be transformative.
-Bonni Stachowiak

• How Do You Grade A Creative Assignment, by Bonni Stachowiak for EdSurge
• Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do with Ken Bain
• What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain
• Tweet thread from Corinne Gressang, assistant professor of history at Erskine College about her Holocaust course
• Episode 401: The Problem with Grades, by Josh Eyler
• You Don’t Have to Wait for the Clock to Strike to Start Teaching, by Peter Newbury
• How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler
• AAC&U VALUE initiative and rubrics
• Harvard’s Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Project
• CAST’s UDL Action and Expression Guidelines
• Harvard’s Alternative Assignments: Creative and Digital Resource

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”

John Allen Paulos shares about his new book, Who’s Counting, on episode 429 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We do speak in probabilities our whole lives. Most of us speak it badly, but we do speak it.
-John Allen Paulos

• Who’s Counting? Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More, by John Allen Paulos
• Mathematics cartoon
• Pun
• Bayes theorem

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”

Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas and inspiration for the start of the academic year on episode 428 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

If we don’t start small, we can become stuck wherever we are.
-Bonni Stachowiak

• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, by James Lang
• Small Teaching flashcards on Quizlet
• Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
• Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class, by James Lang
• Who’s in Class? Form: A Tool for Fostering Inclusion – Tracie Addy
• Episode 101: Public Sphere Pedagogy with Thia Wolf from Chico State

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”

Dave Cormier talks about his work in helping students learn in uncertainty on episode 427 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

It is not about it being right or wrong, it’s about looking at the implications.
-Dave Cormier

We aren’t trying to solve the problem, we are trying to understand the issues we have a little bit deeper.
-Dave Cormier

Find ways to make small, productive change.
-Dave Cormier

We are not solving the problem, we are making it a little better where we can.
-Dave Cormier

• Future Challenges Initiative
• SSHRC Future Challenges
• Futures Activity – ebook written by University of Windsor’s coop students
• Saltaire
• Expert Chess Memory: Revisiting the Chunking Hypothesis, by Gobet and Simon
• Future of Education Speaker Series Episode 1 – Students Thinking About Future Skills
• Teaching for Uncertainty vs Teaching the Basics
• Billion Oyster Project

Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”