Intentional Teaching
Derek Bruff
Intentional Teaching is a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. Hosted by educator and author Derek Bruff, the podcast features interviews with educators throughout higher ed.
Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
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AI's Impact on Learning with Marc Watkins
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06/04/24 • 39 min
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Worried about your students asking ChatGPT to write their essays for them? That's so 2023. Generative AI technology is changing fast, and now these tools have the potential to disrupt many different aspects of learning, from reading to notetaking to feedback.
To help us explore those changes, this episode features a conversation with Marc Watkins, lecturer in writing and rhetoric and academic innovation fellow at the University of Mississippi. Marc's blog, Rhetorica, is a must read, and his workshops on teaching and AI for UM faculty have been incredibly helpful.
Marc has a new series on his blog called “Beyond ChatGPT” that explores the many ways that generative AI is affecting learning—far beyond the now-typical use of having ChatGPT write an essay on behalf of a student—and we talked about those changes to the learning landscape.
Episode Resources
Rhetorica, Marc Watkins’ blog, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Marc Watkins’ website, https://marcwatkins.org/
ChatGPT 4o demo reels, https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI, https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her
Explainpaper, https://www.explainpaper.com/
Student Notetaking for Recall and Understanding, https://derekbruff.org/?p=2848
Why Use Sketchnotes in the Classroom?, https://derekbruff.org/?p=2902
Mike Sharples’ May 2022 essay on AI in teaching and learning, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/17/new-ai-tools-that-can-write-student-essays-require-educators-to-rethink-teaching-and-assessment/
AnswersAi, “School on Easy Mode,” https://answersai.com/
DevinAI, “The First AI Software Engineer,” https://www.cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin
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🔒 Broadening Access to Undergraduate Research with Kristine Johnson and Michael Rifenburg (Bonus)
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03/25/25 • 7 min
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I recently talked with Kristine Johnson and Michael Rifenburg, authors of the new book A Long View of Undergraduate Research: Alumni Perspectives on Inquiry, Belonging, and Vocation. In these bonus clips, they share a bit more about what they learned from talking with alumni who had engaged in undergrad research, specifically about broadening access to these opportunities and about practicing good mentoring.
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Intentional Teaching
10/21/22 • 2 min
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Welcome to the Intentional Teaching, a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. I’m your host, Derek Bruff.
I directed the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University for over a decade, and I’ve worked with faculty and other instructors at dozens of colleges and universities, helping them to become more intentional and effective teachers. I’ve written two books on teaching in higher education: Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments and Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. It’s that second book, which came out in 2019, that has inspired the title of this podcast and the companion newsletter I send out most Thursdays. I’m using “Intentional Teaching” to indicate that we should be intentional not only in how we teach, but also how we develop as teachers over time. I hope this podcast, featuring interviews with educators and researchers from across higher education, will be a valuable part of your professional development as an educator.
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Music: “Dreamcatcher,” https://www.purple-planet.com/.
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Active Learning with Melinda Owens
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11/30/22 • 34 min
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Wouldn't it be interesting to see an analysis of how much time you spent on active learning, right after class ended? DART is a tool created by a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team of education researchers. DART stands for Decibel Analysis for Research in Teaching. All you have to do is record your class session with your phone and upload the recording to the DART website. DART’s machine learning algorithms will then analyze that audio and let you know how much of your class time was spent on lecturing versus active learning.
I first heard about DART a few years ago, and I’ve been wanting to learn more about it ever since. I reached out to Melinda Owens, assistant teaching professor in neurobiology at the University of California San Diego and one of the lead developers for DART, and she was excited to talk with me about DART. Melinda shares a bit about her journey into education research, the origins of DART, and how college faculty can use DART to better understand and improve their own teaching.
Episode Resources:
Melinda Owens’ faculty page, https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/mtowens.html
DART website, https://sepaldart.herokuapp.com/
“Classroom sound be used to classify teaching practices in college science courses,” Melinda Owens et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114:12, https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1618693114
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"The Weekend" by chillmore, via Pixabay
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Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
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AI Writing with Robert Cummings
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11/15/22 • 34 min
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A few years ago you could assume that if a student submitted an essay in your class, some human wrote that essay, hopefully the student in question. That’s no longer true, however, as AI-powered writing generators get better and better at producing intelligible text. What are we to do, whether we’re teaching writing or having students use writing to represent their learning?
On today’s episode of Intentional Teaching, I talk with Robert Cummings, associate professor of writing and rhetoric and executive director of academic innovation at the University of Mississippi. Bob has spent his career exploring what’s coming in terms of teaching and technology, particularly in the field of writing instruction. These days, Bob is collaborating with computer scientists to figure out what role AI technologies might have in writing instruction.
I reached out to Bob to talk with me about the state of affairs in AI and writing, and we had a wide-ranging conversation that I’m excited to share here on the podcast.
Episode Resources:
Robert Cummings’ faculty page, https://english.olemiss.edu/robert-cummings/
OpenAI examples, https://beta.openai.com/examples
OpenAI Playground (account required), https://beta.openai.com/playground
Fermat Generative AI, https://fermat.ws/
Michael Wooldridge, professor of computer science, University of Oxford, https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/
Peter Elbow, emeritus professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, http://peterelbow.com/
Is There a Text in This Class? by Stanley Fish, https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674467262
Emad Mostaque on the Hard Fork podcast, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html
“Moore’s Law for Everything” by Sam Altman, https://moores.samaltman.com/
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans, https://amzn.to/3UNC1Ed
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"The Weekend" by chillmore, via
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Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
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See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
Embodied Learning with Susan Hrach
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11/01/22 • 37 min
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On today’s episode of Intentional Teaching, I bring you a fantastic interview with educator and author Susan Hrach. Susan is the director of the Faculty Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Columbus State University and the author of the 2021 book Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning. I knew of Susan’s work in embodied learning, and I discovered recently that we share an interest in active learning spaces and how they can be used to support and enhance teaching and learning. I reached out to Susan to see if she could help me better understand the connections between our bodies and our learning spaces, and she gladly agreed.
In the interview, Susan describes some of the ways we use our bodies for learning, and she shares practical advice for faculty teaching on-site or online for recognizing and fostering embodied learning.
Episode Resources:
Susan Hrach’s website: https://susanhrach.com/
Susan Hrach on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusanHrach
Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning: https://amzn.to/3TEsMFL
“What it’s like to teach in an active learning classroom,” by Robert Talbert: https://rtalbert.org/teaching-in-alc/
“More than mere handwaving: Gesture and embodiment in expert mathematical proof,” by Tyler Marghetis, Laurie D. Edwards, and Rafael Núñez, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AAUoDwAAQBAJ
"The push for more active learning spaces on campus," Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/16/push-more-active-learning-spaces-campus
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"The Weekend" by chillmore, via Pixabay
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Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
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See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
🔒 Agency, Counterfactuals, and Coffee with Greg Loring-Albright (Bonus)
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02/18/25 • 9 min
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I recently talked with Greg Loring-Albright, assistant professor of games, media, and culture at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and designer of the forthcoming storytelling game Keep the Faith. We covered a lot of ground in our conversation about game design and learning design, and I'm excited to share a bit more of that conversation here in this bonus episode.
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Responsible Pedagogy with Eric Detweiler
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02/28/23 • 44 min
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Eric Detweiler is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and the director of the public writing and rhetoric program at MTSU. When I saw that Eric had a new book out called Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education, I knew I wanted to talk with him here on the podcast.
In the interview, Eric shares the motivation for the book, the problems he sees with the notions of authority and mastery in higher education, and how not to teach about thesis statements. Oh, and we talk about ChatGPT, the AI text generator, because it’s unavoidable.
Episode Resources:
- Eric Detweiler’s website, https://rheteric.org/
- Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education, https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09343-7.html
- Rhetoricity, Eric’s podcast, https://rhetoricity.libsyn.com/
- @EricSDet on Twitter, https://twitter.com/EricSDet
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Generative AI in Computer Science with Brett Becker
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04/18/23 • 38 min
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Since November 2022, higher education has been trying to wrap its collective mind around the advent of AI text generators like ChatGPT. For those of us who teach courses where we might ask students to respond to a prompt by writing a short essay, ChatGPT and similar tools certainly seem to provide students a way out of doing that writing themselves.
However, our colleagues who teach computer science and computer programming often ask their students to write computer code in respond to a prompt. As it turns out, there are a number of generative AI tools that pre-date ChatGPT that can pretty much answer any coding question you might ask a student in a first- or second-semester programming class.
This means that computer science education has had a bit more time to figure out how to respond to new AI tools that can short circuit the learning process for their students. In this episode, I talk with Brett Becker, assistant professor at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science. He has co-authored at least two papers on the use of AI code generation tools in computer science education, and he is deep in these discussions in his field.
In our conversation, Brett explores how new AI tools are leading computer science educators to rethink their learning goals, their assessments, and how they teach their students the ethics of computer programming. There are a lot of lessons here for educators in other fields figuring out what to do with AI tools!
Episode Resources:
Brett Becker's website, https://www.brettbecker.com/
"Programming Is Hard--Or At Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities and Challenges of AI Code Generation," co-authored by Brett Becker, https://www.brettbecker.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/becker2023programming.pdf
"'It's Weird That It Knows What I Want': Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers," co-authored by Brett Becker, https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02491
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🔒 Telling ChatGPT How It Is with Neeza Singh and Christopher McVey (Bonus)
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04/01/25 • 5 min
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I recently talked with Christopher McVey, master lecturer in the writing program at Boston University, and Neeza Singh, a BU senior majoring in data science who served as an AI Affiliate in Christopher's writing course last year. In this bonus clip, Neeza teaches me something I didn't know about ChatGPT, and Christopher has some advice for fellow instructors about how students are thinking about AI.
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Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.
Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe
Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching
Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.
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How many episodes does Intentional Teaching have?
Intentional Teaching currently has 72 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, Podcasts and Education.
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The episode title 'AI's Impact on Learning with Marc Watkins' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Intentional Teaching is 38 minutes.
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