Higher Listenings

This episode's guest's latest book is selling light hot cakes—for good reason. It’s been called a “veritable lifeline” for any educator looking to wrap their heads around the potential of AI to enhance their teaching practice. Buckle up as we sit down with the tireless José Antonio Bowen, distinguished academic and the author of Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to A New Era of Human Learning, for some sage advice on what AI can and cannot do for you and your students.
00:00: Teaching With AI

11:21: Navigating AI in Higher Education

22:44: Teaching Integrity and Empathy With AI

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Post COVID trauma. Learning loss. A growing student mental health crisis. The past few years have left many faculty feeling burned out. Then some bright light in Silicon Valley thought, hey, now seems like the perfect time to add a little AI to the mix. It’s been a lot. So how can we recapture our joie de vivre? Dr. Brad Cohen discusses the power of play in taking on new challenges, upping our teaching game, and opening our minds to AI and ... you heard this right ... forest bathing.
0:00: Introducing Higher Listenings

8:58: Nurturing Evidence-Based Practice With Play

15:10: Embracing Play and Technology in Teaching

24:32: Exploring Traditional and Emerging Educational Practices

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At a time when AI offers students the easy button, how do we motivate them to do hard things? And how do we help students reclaim the sense of purpose, agency, and self-confidence vital to a meaningful, productive life. Who better to ask than Dr. Kevin Yee, Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Central Florida and a lead organizer of the university’s wildly successful Teaching with AI conference. Dr. Yee gives us his take on our promethean moment in a conversation equal parts practical and philosophical.

00:00: Navigating AI in Higher Education
09:09: Enhancing Evidence-Based Teaching With AI
22:01: Implications of AI on Assignments
25:24: Navigating the Future of Higher Ed
35:23: Revolutionizing Student Engagement With AI

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Is grading doing us or our students any favors? Or do grades short circuit the rich, messy human interactions that are so important to meaningful learning? For Jesse Stommel, author of Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade and How to Stop, breaking our addiction to grades may be easier than you think. Jesse shares why he’s never put a grade on student work and why ‘ungrading’ might be the just the thing we need to move beyond the transactional to get students invested in learning.
00:00: Rethinking Grades in Higher Education
10:35: Moving Towards Ungrading
19:25: The Impact of AI
23:56: Risks in Education Promotion
28:55: Transforming Assessments
40:29: Enhancing Student Engagement

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Belonging is like WI-FI: you don’t notice it until you don’t have it, and then nothing seems to work right. That’s especially true for student persistence in higher education. But it’s become such a buzzword, it begs the question, what does belonging really mean? How do you measure it? And, most importantly, how do you ensure students feel it? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, a leading authority on belonging, to understand what we can do to foster the human connection so vital to student success and wellbeing.
00:00: The Meaning and Impact of Belonging
09:05: Creating a Culture of Belonging
15:39: Enhancing Belonging in Education Settings
23:49: Fostering Belonging
38:05: Maximizing Interactive Learning With Top Hat

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