
Building Community in the College Classroom
06/15/23 • 43 min
Rob Eaton and Bonnie Moon share about building community in the college classroom on episode 470 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The better I understand students back stories, the more empathy and compassion I have for them.
-Rob Eaton
Resources
- Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, by Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
- The Influence of Teaching: Beyond Standardized Test Scores – Engagement, Mindset, and Agency; by Ronald F. Ferguson, et al
- BYU-Idaho’s THRIVE program
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.”
Rob Eaton and Bonnie Moon share about building community in the college classroom on episode 470 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The better I understand students back stories, the more empathy and compassion I have for them.
-Rob Eaton
Resources
- Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, by Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
- The Influence of Teaching: Beyond Standardized Test Scores – Engagement, Mindset, and Agency; by Ronald F. Ferguson, et al
- BYU-Idaho’s THRIVE program
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.”
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Designing Courses in an Age of AI
Maria Andersen shares about designing courses in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 469 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Student’s natural world is the technological world.
-Maria Andersen
Students have a lot of questions about how society has changed.
-Maria Andersen
All of the things we have today came about because people did something in the past.
-Maria Andersen
With generative AI, we have an incredible acceleration of change happening.
-Maria Andersen
Resources
- Maria’s website
- Paul Fairie (historian who posts on Twitter threads about arguments we keep on making, as expressed in old newspaper clippings)
- A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore, curated by Paul Fairie
- A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers, curated by Paul Fairie
- The Montreal Protocol
- Practical Engineering
- Wendover Productions
- Real Engineering
- Example of a True/False exercise Maria developed
- YouTube Summary with ChatGPT (Chrome extension)
- Kahoot
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.”
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Equity and Social Justice in STEM Education
Tatiane Russo-Tait shares about equity and social justice in STEM education on episode 471 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
My dad told me that I needed to get my education and that education is the only path to liberation for folks like us.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
I almost dropped out.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
I was thinking about teaching so that I could be a role model and disrupt classroom spaces to be more welcoming and supportive.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
Resources
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