Teaching in Higher Ed

• May Contain Lies: Stories, Stats, and Bias

  Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually. -Alex Edmans What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where something could be 100% accurate, but the inferences that we draw from them might be misleading. -Alex Edmans It's not that they're bad people, it's that they're people, they're humans. And if we're a person, we have biases. -Alex Edmans What I'm trying to highlight is the importance of being discerning. We want to have healthy skepticism, but we want to have the same healthy skepticism to something that we do like as something that we don't. -Alex Edmans Resources May Contain Lies: How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases — and what we can do about it, by Alex Edmans Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell Cookie Monster Practices Self-Regulation | Life Kit Parenting | NPR Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics Taking A Mosaic Approach to AI in the Writing Classroom, presented by Chris Ostro All Else Equal Podcast A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

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• How to Facilitate Enriching Learning Experiences

  Tolu Noah shares about her new book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, on episode 573 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Whenever I'm planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience. -Tolu Noah I don't think there's necessarily one right way to approach planning. -Tolu Noah A really important aspect of facilitation is that yes, you have a plan, but you also need to be flexible with that plan and be willing to take a rest stop or a detour if needed. -Tolu Noah Timing is probably one of the most important aspects of facilitation. -Tolu Noah Resources Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A Guide to Crafting Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education, by Tolulope Noah Yoruba The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker Richard E. Mayer Padlet Breakout Rooms Padlet Sandbox Bryan Mathers Permission Slip Headliner App Butter Scenes SessionLab Facilitating On Purpose

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• Myths and Metaphors in the Age of Generative AI

  Leon Furze shares about myths and metaphors in the age of generative AI on episode 572 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode In higher education there is a need to temper the resistance and refusal of the technology with the understanding that students are using it anyway. -Leon Furze We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students, then we have a responsibility to engage with the technology on some level. In order to do that, we need to be using it and and experimenting with it because otherwise, we're relying on third party information, conjecture, and opinions rather than direct experience. -Leon Furze My use of the technology has really shifted over the last few years the more I think about it as a technology and not as a vehicle for language. -Leon Furze Let the English teachers who love English, teach English. Let the mathematics teachers who love math, teach math. Let the science teachers teach science. And where appropriate, bring these technologies in. -Leon Furze Resources Myths, Magic, and Metaphors: The Language of Generative AI (Leon Furze) Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law (Wikipedia) Vincent Mosco – The Digital Sublime MagicSchool AI OECD’s Definition of AI Literacy PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) NAPLAN (Australia’s National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning? by Miriam Reynoldson ChatGPT (OpenAI) CoPilot (Microsoft) Who Cares to Chat, by Audrey Watters (About Clippy) Clippy (Microsoft Office Assistant – Wikipedia) Gemini (Google AI) Be My Eyes Accessibility with GPT-4o Be My Eyes (Assistive Technology) Teaching AI Ethics – Leon Furze Black Box (Artificial Intelligence – Wikipedia) Snagit (TechSmith) Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

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• Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Through Joyful Curiosity

  Jackie Shay Shares about overcoming imposter syndrome through joyful curiosity on episode 571 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Sometimes I get in my head about imposter syndrome about being joyful. -Jackie Shay Why can't we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence? -Jackie Shay It's about supporting the learning by doing meaningful, challenging work that promotes growth, that allows us to find joy in the discomfort that comes from the vulnerability of pushing your mind to its boundaries and beyond. -Jackie Shay Resources Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield Emotional Intelligence Video about neuroplasticity Making Challenging Subjects Fun: Episode 66 with Anissa Ramirez Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, by Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert Bjork Beyond Dichotomous Thinking: Episode 527 with Alexis Peirce Caudell What Baby George (and Handstands) Taught me About Learning from Mike Wesch Radical hope: A teaching manifesto, by Kevin Gannon Fred Wolf Awe: The new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life, by Dacher Keltner Coaching for Leaders Episode 254: Use Power for Good and Not Evil, with Dacher Keltner Tennis ball massage  Relaxed Cozy House Mix in a New York Loft | Tinzo

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• How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline

  Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think what happens with a lot of people's efforts to tell stories is that they're staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don't have a form that they're filling up. -Laura Gibbss Everybody was thriving with these hundred word stories. -Laura Gibbss Meaninglessness in education won't work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful. -Laura Gibbss Resources Laura Gibb’s Website and Blog Laura Gibb’s Aesop Survivor and Other Games Improvised Shakespeare Company TV Tropes George Station The Mouse Bride Mike Caulfield MYFest Nursery Rhyme Maze Game LinkedIn Post: Go Somewhere + Games, in General Laura’s Ungrading Padlet Who Cares to Chat? by Audrey Watters Audrey Watters’ 2nd Breakfast Newsletter Readers Theater, by Laura Gibbs & Heather Kretschmer Zine Construction video with Dawn Stahura Dawn Stahura’s Zine-Making Resources 100-Word Stories from Laura Gibbs (and her students) Tiny Writing Workshop Padlet, including 6-Word Stories Keeping ScOR from John Biewen Write Your Own Book List, by Laura Gibbs Ungrading Chapbook, by Martha Burtis Bonus Video After Pod Party with Laura Gibbs

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