Learning to Teach, Design, and Rest From Nature

Karen Costa describes learning to teach, design, and rest on episode 578 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Gardening is something I've tried and failed at many times. I don't know if it's something you can win or fail at. -Karen Costa There's a ton of research on our mental health and well being and what green spaces can do for us. -Karen Costa The mindset is learning from nature rather than learning about nature. -Karen Costa Nature is really, really good at resting. -Karen Costa Resilience is born of rest, of hibernating, of knowing that we've got to kind of go down into the ground, into the earth, in those seasons of quiet and peace in order to begin again and rejuvenate. -Karen Costa Diversity is the foundation of life. Diversity is strength. -Karen Costa Resources Biomimicry Checklist Karen’s Final Biomimicry Presentation Biomimicry Life’s Principles The Native Plant Trust Kerry Mandalak on Teaching in Higher Ed Biomimicry – Janine Benyus Learn Biomimicry Rest Is Resistance Lead Through Strengths The Residence  acoustic-ish: an album…ish Yes to religion freedom; No to Christian nationalism, by Jeff Hittenberger The OpEd Project

Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Sometimes there is no positive outcome when something goes wrong. Sometimes things just get messed up because people are human. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Inadvertently we have a subtext that teaching is somehow perfectible. Teaching and learning will never ever be perfectible. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Resources Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, by Jessamyn Neuhaus Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) at Syracuse University Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning, by Jessamyn Neuhaus Geeky Pedagogy, by Jessamyn Neuhaus Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America, by Jessamyn Neuhaus Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship, by Mahan Khalsa The Sleeper, by Mike Wesch SIFT (The Four Moves), by Mike Caulfield Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos by Carla M. Lopez for McSweeney’s DEI? You’re Fired! with Heather McGhee on The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart 10 In the Moment Responses for Addressing Micro and Macroaggressions in the Classroom, by Chavella Pittman 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, by David Yeager Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching, by Lauren Barbeau, Claudia Cornejo Happel Dippity Do Girls with Curls Curl Boosting Mousse MoMA Sliding Perpetual Calendar Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Hand Soap Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education International Journal for Students as Partners Tea for Teaching Podcast The Present Professor, by Elizabeth A. Norell Thrifty Shopper We Are Lady Parts on Peacock

Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna share about their book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want on episode 576 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode What's going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we're using it to mean, it's that it doesn't have a proper referent in the world. -Emily M. Bender There's a much broader range of people who can have opinions on AI. -Alex Hanna The boosters say AI is a thing. It's inevitable, it's imminent, it's going to be super powerful, and it's going to solve all of our problems. And the doomers say AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent, it's going to be super powerful, and it's going to kill us all. And you can see that there's actually not a lot of daylight between those two positions, despite the discourse of saying these are two opposite ends of a spectrum. -Emily M. Bender Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions. -Alex Hannay Resources The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) The Princess Bride Emily Tucker, Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? By Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell Emily M. Bender’s website How the right to education is undermined by AI, by Helen Beetham How We are Not Using AI in the Classroom, by Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren  Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, by Karen Hao

Rolin Moe shares about rebuilding trust in the value of education (among other things) on episode 575 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I never again had a static lesson plan. I was always very fluid in whatever I was going to be doing. I knew where I wanted to get, but the road could go in all sorts of different directions. - Rolin Moe Learning is a continuous activity in all sorts of areas and all sorts of places. - Rolin Moe Education is the process of helping people find things that they don't yet know they love. - Rolin Moe Resources Gary Stager George Siemens Van Gogh-Inspired AI Course Policy (YouTube) MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses – Wikipedia) Smithsonian Institution Michael Peter Edson UC Riverside XCITE Center Community Colleges in California California State University (CSU) System Go Somewhere Card Game James A. Michener quote Wingspan Board Game Elizabeth Hargrave (Game Designer) Merlin Bird ID App (Cornell Lab)

Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually. -Alex Edmans What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where something could be 100% accurate, but the inferences that we draw from them might be misleading. -Alex Edmans It's not that they're bad people, it's that they're people, they're humans. And if we're a person, we have biases. -Alex Edmans What I'm trying to highlight is the importance of being discerning. We want to have healthy skepticism, but we want to have the same healthy skepticism to something that we do like as something that we don't. -Alex Edmans Resources May Contain Lies: How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases — and what we can do about it, by Alex Edmans Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell Cookie Monster Practices Self-Regulation | Life Kit Parenting | NPR Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics Taking A Mosaic Approach to AI in the Writing Classroom, presented by Chris Ostro All Else Equal Podcast A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

Tolu Noah shares about her new book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, on episode 573 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Whenever I'm planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience. -Tolu Noah I don't think there's necessarily one right way to approach planning. -Tolu Noah A really important aspect of facilitation is that yes, you have a plan, but you also need to be flexible with that plan and be willing to take a rest stop or a detour if needed. -Tolu Noah Timing is probably one of the most important aspects of facilitation. -Tolu Noah Resources Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A Guide to Crafting Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education, by Tolulope Noah Yoruba The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker Richard E. Mayer Padlet Breakout Rooms Padlet Sandbox Bryan Mathers Permission Slip Headliner App Butter Scenes SessionLab Facilitating On Purpose

Leon Furze shares about myths and metaphors in the age of generative AI on episode 572 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode In higher education there is a need to temper the resistance and refusal of the technology with the understanding that students are using it anyway. -Leon Furze We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students, then we have a responsibility to engage with the technology on some level. In order to do that, we need to be using it and and experimenting with it because otherwise, we're relying on third party information, conjecture, and opinions rather than direct experience. -Leon Furze My use of the technology has really shifted over the last few years the more I think about it as a technology and not as a vehicle for language. -Leon Furze Let the English teachers who love English, teach English. Let the mathematics teachers who love math, teach math. Let the science teachers teach science. And where appropriate, bring these technologies in. -Leon Furze Resources Myths, Magic, and Metaphors: The Language of Generative AI (Leon Furze) Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law (Wikipedia) Vincent Mosco – The Digital Sublime MagicSchool AI OECD’s Definition of AI Literacy PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) NAPLAN (Australia’s National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning? by Miriam Reynoldson ChatGPT (OpenAI) CoPilot (Microsoft) Who Cares to Chat, by Audrey Watters (About Clippy) Clippy (Microsoft Office Assistant – Wikipedia) Gemini (Google AI) Be My Eyes Accessibility with GPT-4o Be My Eyes (Assistive Technology) Teaching AI Ethics – Leon Furze Black Box (Artificial Intelligence – Wikipedia) Snagit (TechSmith) Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

Jackie Shay Shares about overcoming imposter syndrome through joyful curiosity on episode 571 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Sometimes I get in my head about imposter syndrome about being joyful. -Jackie Shay Why can't we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence? -Jackie Shay It's about supporting the learning by doing meaningful, challenging work that promotes growth, that allows us to find joy in the discomfort that comes from the vulnerability of pushing your mind to its boundaries and beyond. -Jackie Shay Resources Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield Emotional Intelligence Video about neuroplasticity Making Challenging Subjects Fun: Episode 66 with Anissa Ramirez Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, by Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert Bjork Beyond Dichotomous Thinking: Episode 527 with Alexis Peirce Caudell What Baby George (and Handstands) Taught me About Learning from Mike Wesch Radical hope: A teaching manifesto, by Kevin Gannon Fred Wolf Awe: The new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life, by Dacher Keltner Coaching for Leaders Episode 254: Use Power for Good and Not Evil, with Dacher Keltner Tennis ball massage  Relaxed Cozy House Mix in a New York Loft | Tinzo

Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think what happens with a lot of people's efforts to tell stories is that they're staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don't have a form that they're filling up. -Laura Gibbss Everybody was thriving with these hundred word stories. -Laura Gibbss Meaninglessness in education won't work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful. -Laura Gibbss Resources Laura Gibb’s Website and Blog Laura Gibb’s Aesop Survivor and Other Games Improvised Shakespeare Company TV Tropes George Station The Mouse Bride Mike Caulfield MYFest Nursery Rhyme Maze Game LinkedIn Post: Go Somewhere + Games, in General Laura’s Ungrading Padlet Who Cares to Chat? by Audrey Watters Audrey Watters’ 2nd Breakfast Newsletter Readers Theater, by Laura Gibbs & Heather Kretschmer Zine Construction video with Dawn Stahura Dawn Stahura’s Zine-Making Resources 100-Word Stories from Laura Gibbs (and her students) Tiny Writing Workshop Padlet, including 6-Word Stories Keeping ScOR from John Biewen Write Your Own Book List, by Laura Gibbs Ungrading Chapbook, by Martha Burtis Bonus Video After Pod Party with Laura Gibbs

Mike Perkins and Jasper Roe share a practical framework for ethical AI integration in assessment on episode 569 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We wanted to be flexible and have some opportunities for students and faculty to really have open conversations about how AI might be suitably used given the individual circumstances and the cultural context. -Mike Perkins One of the things that is happening that we can't deny is that the rate of hallucinations is going down. The capabilities are getting better and better. -Jasper Roe Criticality and pessimism aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models. -Jasper Roe Resources AI Assessment Scale Website Updating the AI Assessment Scale, by Leon Furze The Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS): A Framework for Ethical Integration of Generative AI in Educational Assessment, by Mike Perkins, Leon Furze, Jasper Roe, & Jason MacVaugh Nick McIntosh Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research, by Lisa Messeri & M. J. Crockett Amelia King Jane Rosenzweig’s Bluesky post: Schitts Creek: The Sequel (Bluesky login required to view) Jane Rosenzweig’s Breakfast Club Ai generated photos mixed with real ones (login required) SIFT Toolbox for Claude (and ChatGPT) Released, by Mike Caulfield Strava Garmin AI and the Future of Higher Ed, by Nick McIntosh The Residence