Go Somewhere: A Game of Metaphors, AI, and What Comes Next

Bonni Stachowiak shares about her card game, Go Somewhere: A game of metaphors, AI, and what comes next on episode 597 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode A lot of you have been asking me about this game that I've played now and facilitated at over 10 universities and conferences called Go Somewhere. -Bonni Stachowiak What the game allows people to do is to be a little bit playful, laugh, and smile as we explore very serious things. -Bonni Stachowiak It can be helpful to have a map when we think about all of the different ways that artificial intelligence might impact our teaching. -Bonni Stachowiak The other issue that comes up a lot as we start talking about artificial intelligence is how often it bumps up against our sense of identity. -Bonni Stachowiak Continue to learn, reflect, and keep moving. Go somewhere. -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies, by Anuj Gupta, Yasser Atef, Anna Mills, & Maha Bali Teaching in Higher Ed AI Resources and Episodes All Aboard - Digital Skills Map (Ireland) Where are the crescents in AI? by Maha Bali Different Critiques of AI in Education, by Maha Bali Critical AI Literacy is Not Enough: Introducing Care Literacy, Equity Literacy & Teaching Philosophies, by Maha Bali Teaching AI Ethics, by Leon Furze Scooby-Doo AI Metaphors We Live By: The Language of Artificial Intelligence, by Leon Furze Her (2013) On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots, by Bender, Gebru, et al. Episode 576: The AI Con with Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna The Princess Bride (1987) Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations, by Anna Mills & Nate Angell ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG, by Ted Chiang Permission Slip, by Bryan Mathers from Visual Thinkery How Will AI Impact Gen Z?

Christy Albright + Clarissa Sorensen Unruh share about teaching, learning, and the lessons of grief on episode 596 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Take two deep breaths. -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh None of the books that I researched on grief actually defined grief. It's like they just assumed you knew what it was because it's such a universal experience, but it's not universally experienced by everybody in the same way. -Christy Albright Anticipatory grief is when you know something is coming and you're already grieving that situation. -Christy Albright People assume that grief gets smaller, and actually we grow around it. -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh The big griefs in my life stay forever. -Christy Albright Resources Bonni fact checks her anecdote about birds Fractals: Is Hasan Smarter than a 13-year-old Math Genius Peter Felten: Can We Teach Curiosity? Resources for Grieving (Christy’s website) Capsule Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins An Educator's Guide to ADHD, by Karen Costa Good Hang with Amy Poehler An Educator's Guide to ADHD, by Karen Costa

Roberta Hawkins + Leslie Kern share about their book, Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University on episode 595 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We advise lots of different ways of rethinking our relationship with work in the book. -Roberta Hawkins You can’t solve institutional problems with individual sacrifices. -Leslie Kern We are not cogs in an institutional machine. -Roberta Hawkins One of the challenges, is the idea that our work is kind of a calling. It's a passion project. The institution knows that we love our work and that we are passionate about our students and that we care about bringing great ideas to fruition in the world, so it will extract every little drop of that from you in terms of your time and energy. -Leslie Kern Invisibilized labor is an equity issue as well as a workload issue. -Roberta Hawkins Resources Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make It Better for Others, and Transform the University, by Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern What you didn’t learn in class: Revealing the hidden curriculum, by Lindsay Vreeland, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Northern Illinois University Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose, by Martha Beck

Dave Stachowiak joins Bonni in remembering Ken Bain on episode 594 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Ken Bain was such good company to me and to countless people from around the world. -Bonni Stachowiak While I didn't ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I'm so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he's inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversation that was really needed. -Dave Stachowiak Resources Post: James Lang Shares About Ken Bain’s Passing Obituary of Kenneth R. Bain Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do with Ken Bain Episode 100: The Failure Episode Episode 146: James Lang and Ken Bain on Motivation in the Classroom Johannes Haushofer CV of Failures What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain What the Best College Students Do, by Ken Bain

Carter Moulton shares about his Analog Inspiration (AI) card deck and human centered AI in the classroom on episode 593 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I'm here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game. -Carter Moulton I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each other and wrestle with these moral and ethical questions. -Carter Moulton Those three questions underneath at the bottom of the card are really just trying to foster that critical thinking with students about what it is they're making and what it is they're doing and how they're engaging with AI. -Carter Moulton I hope we don't abandon the decades of research that has shown the benefits of peer learning, of caring, belonging, and relationships in the classroom. -Carter Moulton Resources Analog Inspiration Card Deck How to Play Free Google Sheet for Discussions Buy - Analog Inspiration Card Deck Analog Inspiration Project Overview Bonni’s Analog Inspiration Unboxing Video (YouTube) Bonni awkwardly tries to mention HAL 9000 and WarGames and just clearly wasn’t ready for the moment 🤦‍♀️ Episode 585: Toward Socially Just Teaching Across Disciplines with Bryan Dewsbury 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier by David Yeager Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick Donna H. Hicks - Dignity Researcher Anna Mills’ PAIRR Resources Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson Human in the Loop (Wikipedia) Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Learning Curve Podcast: What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? Hosted by Jeff Young with guests Paul LeBlanc and Maha Bali Tolu Noah Custom Playing Cards Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day, by Dan Nott TiHE Recommendations Page Cooking with Vegetables by Jessie Jenkins First Generation, by Frankie Gaw

Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people's motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them. -Barbara Oakley Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind. -Barbara Oakley Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier. -Barbara Oakley Resources Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act Sway.AI Barbara Oakley – Coursera Instructor Profile Learning How to Learn Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models Barbara Oakley’s Website Barbara Oakley – Wikipedia Academy of Ideas: The Hidden Neuroscience of Democracy A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley Retrieval Practice (retrievalpractice.org) Obsidian How and Why I Use Obsidian, by Robert Talbert SmarterHumans.ai

Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode There's a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class. -Danny Oppenheimer You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they attend. But they also hate you, and they hate the subject and they hate everything to do with the class. -Danny Oppenheimer If you give people choices, sometimes they make bad choices. Scaffolding choices can help people make choices that actually align with their preferences more effectively. -Danny Oppenheimer Students love being treated like adults. They love having choice. Everybody loves having choice. People don't like other people telling them what to do. -Danny Oppenheimer In some sense students have a preference to attend class. And in some sense they have a preference to not attend class. Those preferences can coexist in some way. -Simon Cullen Resources Choosing to learn: The importance of student autonomy in higher education, by Simon Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer Are we overlooking the power of autonomy when it comes to motivating students? by Danny Oppenheimer Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly, by Daniel M. Oppenheimer Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, by Alfie Kohn The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution, by Richard Wrangham Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality, by T.N. Eyer

Mike Caulfield shares about using AI as a co-reasoning partner and his Deep Background tool on episode 590 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems. -Mike Caulfield AI doesn't naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It's a little bit of a bolt on afterthought. -Mike Caulfield Searching for information is a journey. How can we get the benefits of AI but still preserve that feeling of a journey? -Mike Caulfield I’m working on this issue of follow ups with AI. It is magic to get students to think of these responses as not a single transaction. They're coaching the AI through a process, not to get a specific answer that they want, but to look at the sorts of sources that matter for the question. -Mike Caulfield Resources Deep Background: A “Superprompt” to change the way you use LLMs Reading the Room with SIFT Toolbox New SIFT Toolbox Release (Substack) SIFT Method (The Four Moves) Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg Interview with Mike Caulfield on Deep Background (AACE Review) Is the LLM Response Wrong, or Have You Just Failed to Iterate It, by Mike Caulfield Episode 492: Verified with Mike Caulfield on Teaching in Higher Ed Starlight Bowl in San Diego Sound of Music “Everything Could Have Been a Huge Disaster”: Nathan Fielder on Making ‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2 It Runs Through Me, Tom Misch (feat. De La Soul) Tom Misch: Tiny Desk Concert Me Myself and I, De La Soul (1989) The Magic Number, De La Soul (1989) Reasonable People with Tom Stafford  Pétanque

The Richness of Podcasting in Higher Education, with Dom Conroy and Warren Kidd. Quotes from the episode There's so many different ways to capture people's imagination through an audio feed. -Dom Conroy When we're creating podcasts, we are putting ourselves on the line. -Dom Conroy Education is a relational experience. -Warren Kidd The act of teaching is reflective and reflexive. -Warren Kidd Resources Using Podcasts to Cultivate Learner–Teacher Rapport in Higher Education Settings, by Dominic Conroy & Warren Kidd Optimizing Practitioner-Delivered Podcasts as Learning and Teaching Tools in Higher Education: Learner and Teacher Viewpoints, by Dom Conroy and Warren Kidd International Podcast Day Planet Money Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil S-Town Podcast: Chapter 1 BBC Radio Walkman The Wild Podcast: In Search of Silence Good Robot Podcast RCA podcast: Creative education through uncertainty

Emily Pitts Donahoe shares what we can learn about grades from an “emerging failure" on episode 588 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode They introduced a framework that attempts to identify the common features of alternative grading for growth systems that are meant to prioritize student growth and student learning over just grades and performance. -Emily Donahoe Those four pillars are marks that indicate progress, reattempts without penalty, clearly defined standards, and helpful feedback. -Emily Donahoe One of the most important functions of grades or marks given on individual assignments is to communicate to students about how they're progressing in a certain subject. Traditional grades don't serve this communicative function very well. -Emily Donahoe Resources Unmaking the Grade, Emily Pitts Donahoe’s blog and reflective journal chronicling one educator's experiences with ungrading and other progressive teaching practices Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices That Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education, by Robert Talbert & David Clark Grading for Growth How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, By Joshua R. Eyler Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It, by Joshua R. Eyler Harry Potter Wizards of Baking Sarah Rose Cavanagh Japanese restaurant at Irvine Spectrum all four of the Stachowiak family members like: Robata Wasa Wicked Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, by Adam Becker Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer