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Hi! I'm Bonni Stachowiak. Host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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"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
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Teaching in Higher Ed Update: The AI Con with Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 576, I welcome Dr. Emily M. Bender, professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, to Teaching in Higher Ed. We explore their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Emily and Alex clarify how the term “AI” is often misapplied and...

5 days ago • 3 min read
"Education is the process of helping people find things that they don't yet know they love." Rolin Moe on Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 575, I welcome Rolin Moe, education administrator and leader in distance and digital learning, to Teaching in Higher Ed. He helps us reflect on the complexities of rebuilding trust in the value of education. Rolin shares experiences that shaped his teaching philosophy including his early days teaching students with learning disabilities and formative lessons about flexibility, responsiveness, and the limits of prescriptive...

12 days ago • 2 min read
"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

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 574 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I am joined by Alex Edmonds, Professor of Finance at London Business School and expert on data interpretation and bias. We delve into the intricate ways that stories, statistics, and studies can reinforce and exploit our biases, even when the facts themselves are accurate. Alex Edmonds reflects on popular examples, from the 10,000-hour rule to the marshmallow test, illustrating how commonly...

19 days ago • 2 min read
"Timing is probably one of the most important aspects of facilitation." Tolu Noah

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 573 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I welcome back Tolu Noah, Instructional Learning Spaces Coordinator at California State University Long Beach and award-winning educator, to discuss how to facilitate enriching learning experiences in higher education. Drawing on her extensive background in both K-12 and higher ed—plus her recent book Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality—Tolu shares practical strategies for...

26 days ago • 3 min read
"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

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 572 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I welcome back Leon Furze—an international consultant, author, and speaker whose current PhD research explores the implications of generative artificial intelligence on writing instruction and education. Leon brings over fifteen years' experience across secondary and tertiary education in both teaching and leadership, along with ongoing board work and scholarship in educational transformation and...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read
"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

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 571, I welcome Jackie Shay, Assistant Teaching Professor in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara, to Teaching in Higher Ed. She contributed a chapter about overcoming imposter syndrome in STEM through joyful curiosity for the book: Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield. Jackie is a joyful educator and advocate for inclusive,...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read
“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 Gibbs

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 570, I welcome Laura Gibbs, longtime storyteller and retired faculty member from the University of Oklahoma, back to Teaching in Higher Ed. We explore the process of getting started with interactive storytelling—sometimes called "choose your own adventure" storytelling—across any discipline. Laura shares insights from her extensive experience teaching online courses in mythology, folklore, and now Latin and Greek,...

about 2 months ago • 4 min read
“Criticality and pessimism aren't the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models.” -Jasper Roe

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 569, I welcome Mike Perkins, Head of the Center for Research and Innovation at British University Vietnam, and Jasper Roe, Assistant Professor in Digital Literacies and Pedagogies at Durham University, to Teaching in Higher Ed. We explore the complexities and opportunities of integrating generative AI into educational assessment, focusing on the AI Assessment Scale—a five-level framework designed to help educators ethically,...

about 2 months ago • 4 min read
"You can treat people with dignity and respect even as you’re calling out their mistake. You can challenge them while being respectful." - Tricia Bertram Gallant

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 568 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I was joined by renowned academic integrity experts Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger, co-authors of The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. Together, they discussed why cheating has been a normal part of being human, how broader systemic pressures encouraged shortcuts, and the ways generative AI had begun to disrupt traditional approaches to assessment and...

2 months ago • 3 min read
"Visualizing the process actually increases productivity. The neuroscience shows that you see five times more brain areas activated when you picture the process than when you picture a glorious outcome." - Therese Huston

Reader, here's your weekly Teaching in Higher Ed update. On Episode 567 of Teaching in Higher Ed, I welcomed back cognitive neuroscientist and faculty development consultant Dr. Therese Huston for a conversation on how to keep our brains sharp. Drawing from Therese’s latest book, Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science, she explored neuroscience-based strategies for improving focus, motivation, and productivity—both in and out of the classroom. We discussed common myths...

2 months ago • 3 min read