T5: Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together

Guest: Wiebke Kuhn | Director of Academic Technology | Information Technology Services | Carleton College Link to Carleton College's AI Site: https://www.carleton.edu/ai/ Generative AI continues to progress rapidly, and higher education continues to grapple with its implications. We speak with educators to ask how they are using generative AI as a co-creator when developing content for their cours...

Guest: Mark Minster | Professor of English | Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Generative AI continues to progress rapidly, and higher education continues to grapple with its implications. We speak with educators to ask how they are using generative AI as a co-creator when developing content for their courses. As always, if you have ideas...

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to as we prepare our courses. As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podteam@gmail.com.

Guest: John Laudun | UL Federal Credit Union/BORSF Endowed Professor | Department of English | University of Louisiana at Lafayette "Prepping" a class can mean different things to different people. For some, it is choosing a text for the course and using the publisher provided slide deck and problems. For others, it is developing course handouts from scratch, developing in-class activities for eac...

Guest: Tracy Gleason | Nellie Zuckerman Cohen & Anne Cohen Heller Professor of Health Sciences and Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | Wellesley College "Prepping" a class can mean different things to different people. For some, it is choosing a text for the course and using the publisher provided slide deck and problems. For others, it is developing course handouts from scrat...

Guest: Ella Ingram | Retired Professor of Biology | Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineering | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology "Prepping" a class can mean different things to different people. For some, it is choosing a text for the course and using the publisher provided slide deck and problems. For others, it is developing course handouts from scratch, developing in-class activities...

Guest: Melissa Eblen-Zayas | Professor | Department of Physics | Carleton College "Prepping" a class can mean different things to different people. For some, it is choosing a text for the course and using the publisher provided slide deck and problems. For others, it is developing course handouts from scratch, developing in-class activities for each class meeting, and creating entirely new homewor...

Guest: Marley Olsen | Professor and Honors Program Chair | Department of Sociology | Walla Walla Community College "Prepping" a class can mean different things to different people. For some, it is choosing a text for the course and using the publisher provided slide deck and problems. For others, it is developing course handouts from scratch, developing in-class activities for each class meeting,...

Guest: Ulrike Genschel | Professor and Director of Graduate Education | Department of Statistics | Iowa State University "Prepping" a class can mean different things to different people. For some, it is choosing a text for the course and using the publisher provided slide deck and problems. For others, it is developing course handouts from scratch, developing in-class activities for each class mee...

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to as we generate student buy-in for alternative grading schemes. As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podteam@gma...

Guest: Candice Price | Associate Professor | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Smith College For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outside of "w...

Guest: Judith Canner | Professor | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Cal State Monterey Bay For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outside o...

Guest: Halley McCormick | Professor | Department of Mathematics | Walla Walla Community College Suggested Reading: blog post from Grading for Growth For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Gradi...

Guest: June Pilcher | Professor | College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Science | Clemson University For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interest in "Alternative Grading," which we can think of as anything outsi...

Guest: Robert Talbert | Professor | Department of Mathematics | Grand Valley State University Blog: Finding Common Ground with Grading Website: https://www.rtalbert.org/   For most of us, the grading policy in school was fairly typical: you earn points on assignments, and your course grade is a weighted average of those points. The team behind this podcast was actually born out of a shared interes...

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to trying in our classes as consider assigned readings in our courses. As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podtea...

Guest: Yung-Hsing Wu | Professor | Department of English | University of Louisiana at Lafayette Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to bene...

Guest: Laura Le | Senior Lecturer | Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science | University of Minnesota Additional Resources: SQ3R Tool : A brief resource on a technique for reading to promote understanding. Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisd...

Guest: Shannon Talbott | Associate Professor | Department of Mathematics | Moravian University Resource: Link to article describing the guided inquiry that is used in Dr. Talbott's upper level algebra course. Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in the...

Guest: Melissa Stucky | Lecturer | Bayh College of Education, Teaching, and Learning | Indiana State University Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right ass...

Guest: Lauren Hecht | Professor | Department of Psychological Science | Gustavus Adophus College Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to ben...

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to trying in our classes as we wrestle with personal technology in the classroom. As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us...

Guest: Zajj Daugherty | Professor | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Reed College Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom. As always, if you have i...

Guest: Vera Coleman | Senior Lecturer and Spanish Language Program Director | Carleton College Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom. As always, if you hav...

Guest: Jennifer Sims | Associate Professor | Department of Sociology | University of Alabama Huntsville Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom. As always, i...