How to Learn Students’ Names

Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella discuss how to equip students to dialog across differences using an AI Guide they’ve created on episode 560 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Most of my students have not heard cogent arguments on the other side of whatever their own position is because they've been so siloed. -Simon Cullen In every one of these classes the point is to try and confront students with the strongest arguments I can find, ideally for the thing they don't believe. -Simon Cullen The first thing they hear from me is if you wish to avoid the risk of being offended, then you should probably not be taking this class. -Simon Cullen In philosophy, we always embrace disagreement. -Nicholas DiBella We have designed the guide to be as neutral as possible. -Nicholas DiBella Resources Sway Website Experimental results Student feedback Transcripts of Real Chats From Students and Experimental participants Feedback From Students About Simon’s Dangerous Ideas Carnegie Mellon Course In Praise of Ignorance: To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance, by Simon Cullen Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Over or Under: We Asked a Physicist to End the World’s Great Toilet Paper Debate, by VICE Staff AI is Unavoidable, Not Inevitable, by Marc Watkins I want your attention. I need your attention. Here is how I mastered by own, by Chris Hayes (gift article) Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony Evolved Chocolate Heterodox Academy The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, by Joseph Henrich

Lauren Barbeau + Claudia Cornejo Happel discuss how to cultivate critical teaching behaviors on episode 559 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Being a good teacher or a good researcher is not something you're born with. It's something you learn. It's something you can get better at. -Lauren Barbeau Teaching doesn't fall into nice, neat color coded boxes. We need something that represents the complexity and the messiness and the way that behaviors overlap and might fall into more than one category. -Lauren Barbeau If we can't reflect on our teaching, we can't identify our strengths to start leveraging them, to start working on them. -Lauren Barbeau If you're looking for an entry point into critical teaching behaviors, start by reflecting on your teaching and take a look at the materials we've provided to help you do that. -Lauren Barbeau Be kind to yourself because some semesters are harder than others. -Lauren Barbeau It all comes back to caring about students, being transparent about what we're doing in the classroom, explaining our purpose, and involving them in the conversation that is the learning together in the classroom. -Claudia Cornejo Happel While there's no one thing that is more difficult than another, it really helps us to find a behavior that resonates with us and that we can use as a lens to think about our teaching more holistically. -Claudia Cornejo Happel Resources Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching, by Lauren Barbeau, Claudia Cornejo Happel Critical Teaching Behaviors Website Hand Mirror CamDesk Live Your Values Card Deck Lamy Fountain Pens Plain notebook A Man on the Inside

Michelle Miller shares about her book, A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It's Hard, How You Can, on episode 558 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think a lot of us kinda simmer in this little mindset of, everybody else can do this and I can't. -Michelle Miller We’ve all heard the old saying it’s the sweetest sound that anybody ever hears their own name. It elevates the conversation differently to be able to use names. -Michelle Miller The test isn't on how well you can recognize the name. The test is on how well you can say the names. That's what you need need to practice doing. -Michelle Miller Resources A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can, by Michelle D. Miller Michelle Miller’s R3 Newsletter The Power of Writing Rituals, by James Lang National Institute of Aging What is a junk journal? Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do - Playlist of Michael Sandel Videos Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, by Kevin Gannon Audio book: A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can, by Michelle Miller Audio book: Hope in the Dark, by Rebecca Solnit Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World, by Michelle Miller newsreel.co Facades The Goat Rodeo Sessions

Kent Kauffman shares about his book, Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, on episode 557 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Leave the things that you have full discretion on out of a syllabus. Put those things that allow you to show to your students that you care about clarity into a syllabus. -Kent Kauffman What have courts that have authority in your jurisdiction or the supreme court said about the rights faculty have in public institutions with academic freedom? -Kent Kauffman Students in public institutions have academic freedom too. -Kent Kauffman Do my teaching materials belong to me, or do they belong to my employer? -Kent Kauffman Resources Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, by Kent Kauffman Force majeure clause Academic freedom Work for hire Episode 411: Copyright for the Rest of Us, with Thomas Tobin Copyright Act of 1976 Slow Horses Season 2 Slow Horses Shrinking All Creatures Great and Small Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast

Jasmine Roberts-Crews shares about socially just open education and Black feminist pedagogy on episode 556 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I'm focusing on Black women in particular here because there is a history among some Black women with rejecting the term feminism because there is this idea that feminism is for white women. -Jasmine Roberts-Crews What can we learn from the critical work of Black women through their lived experiences? -Jasmine Roberts-Crews We're kind of going away from or rejecting this idea that assignments are transactional. -Jasmine Roberts-Crews Agency, autonomy, that's at the center of it. -Jasmine Roberts-Crews Resources “The Black Feminist Pedagogical Origins of Open Education” by Jasmine Roberts-Crews Clip: The Princess Bride - Inconceivable Black Feminist Pedagogy: Critiques and Contributions, by Annette Henry The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler Shanna Hollich Nicole Hannah-Jones

Christopher Ostro shares a big picture look at AI detection tools on episode 555 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think there are tons of students I interact with who are really just curious and trying to use these tools to dig deeper. -Christopher Ostro I want them getting practice on these things that are going to be part of their future careers and lives. I love that my classroom is a stage for that. -Christopher Ostro I think AI detection has a place, but its place is limited. I don't think it should ever be the sole reason a student is getting honor coded. -Christopher Ostro I love to tell my students if all you're doing with these tools is taking the output and submitting as your own work, you don't have a job. -Christopher Ostro Resources Video: AI Detection: A Literature Review with Christopher Ostro Slides: AI Detection: A Literature Review University of Colorado Boulder Learning Design Group Video: Student Use of AI: A Panel Dialogue GPTZero, TurnItIn AI Detector, Writer.AI Can linguists distinguish between ChatGPT/AI and human writing?: A study of research ethics and academic publishing, by J. Elliott Casal & Matt Kessler A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study, by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, and Alasdair Clarke Simple techniques to bypass GenAI text detectors: implications for inclusive education, by Mike Perkins et al Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected? by Vinu Sankar Sadasivan et al Testing of detection tools for AI-generated text, by Debora Weber-Wulff et al GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers, by Weixin Liang et al Detecting ChatGPT-generated essays in a large-scale writing assessment: Is there a bias against non-native English speakers? by Yang Jiang et al Kaggle competition 2023 - 2024 h/t to Janae Cohn who shared the article on LinkedIn and posted some additional reflective questions we might ask, as we refuse GenAI in writing studies Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies: A Quickstart Guide, by Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University; Megan McIntyre, University of Arkansas;Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Maha Bali’s writing on AI (and other topics) A Man on the Inside Daytripper (DC Comics)

Todd Zakrajsek shares about Classroom Assessment Techniques on episode 554 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode There's a lot of things that we don't know that we don't know until we try to do it. -Todd Zakrajsek If 90% get it wrong, you didn't teach it well. -Todd Zakrajsek It is so important for the students to understand that you can discuss a point and nobody knows the answer at the end, but you have thought through it. -Todd Zakrajsek To what extent am I helping you to learn in this class? What could I do to further facilitate your learning? What are you doing to facilitate your own learning? And what could you do to further facilitate your own learning? -Todd Zakrajsek Resources Classroom Assessment Techniques: Formative Feedback Tools for College and University Teachers, 3rd Edition by Thomas A. Angelo & Todd D. Zakrajsek Lilly Conferences POD Conference Emily Pitts Donahoe James Marion Darlack - h/t - both of Bonni’s recommendations this episode came from Jim Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group Whiteboard tips and tricks Pillow App

Liz Norell shares about her book, The Present Professor, on episode 553 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode What student behavior just triggers your frustration more than anything else? -Liz Norell Reflect: What kind of expectations do we have of other people? Are those expectations reasonable? Are their priorities the same as mine? -Liz Norell We are living in very interesting times. -Liz Norell I don’t think that we can cultivate empathy if we're not feeling psychologically safe ourselves. -Liz Norell Resources The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching, by Elizabeth A. Norell Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, by bell hooks* Liz’s webinar on January 20, 2025: George Washington’s Farewell Address A Pedagogy of Kindness, by Catherine “Cate” Denial* Unconditional positive regard Today, Explained Ep. 403 - Burn, baby, burn

Cyndi Kernahan discusses her book Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom on episode 552 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Students begin to better understand institutionalized racism, which is my main goal for them. -Cyndi Kernahan When we focus on it as systemic, it allows students to stop focusing so much on themselves about, like, am I a good person or am I a bad person? -Cyndi Kernahan There's a lot of psych research that shows that it's easier for people to think about their own social privilege when they can also think about other parts of their identity that may not hold as much privilege. -Cyndi Kernahan Resources Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor, by Cyndi Kernahan The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh McIntosh, Peggy, & Cleveland, Caitlin. (1990). White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack. The failed NFL diversity ‘rule’ corporate America loves, by Gus Garcia-Roberts for The Washington Post (gift article) Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan Bryan Dewsbury Tracie Addy Slow Horses - Season 1 Harry Potter - Wizards of Baking Somebody Somewhere - Season 3 Broke: The Racial Consequences Underfunding Public Universities The Wedding People

Peter Felten + Kassidy Puckett share about relationship-rich education at scale on episode 551 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We need to help students understand that relationships matter for their learning, their well-being, and success. -Peter Felten Curiosity is a practice. -Peter Felten Empathy in the classroom is not just about being kind; it's about actively listening and understanding where our students are coming from. -Kassidy Puckett Sharing personal stories in the classroom can break down barriers and foster a space where students feel seen and understood. -Kassidy Puckett Resources What Works” When Building Educational Relationships? What Are Barriers to Relationship-Rich Education? Faculty Perspectives Relationship-Rich Education at Scale, aka the Too Many Bodies Problem Mentimeter Relationship-Rich Education at Scale, by Peter Felten & Ann Marie Farrell  Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College, by Peter Felten & Leo M Lambert Connections Are Everything: A College Student's Guide to Relationship-Rich Education, by Peter Felten, Leo M. Lambert, Isis Artze-Vega, & Oscar R Miranda Tapia Building study-related relationships: How student relationships and readiness affect academic outcome in higher education, dissertation by Annika Maria Fjelkner Pihl Heads Up! Quizlet Live Episode 199 with Sierra Smith Connecting in the Online Classroom, by Rebecca Glazier Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Homeless Live Will and Harper