Teaching in Higher Ed

DEC 11, 2025

6 Pedagogical Practices From 600 Episodes

31 MIN

DEC 4, 2025

How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable

<p>David Gooblar shares how better teaching can make college more equitable on episode 599 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20702" src="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png" alt="We get such a small window into our students lives. " width="930" height="620" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TIHE599-2.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /></p> <p>Most of our scars are hidden. I think most of the time people don’t see the scars that we carry.<br /> -David Gooblar</p> <p>We get such a small window into our students lives.<br /> -David Gooblar</p> <p>The imaginary idea of the college student in America is of a privileged student. And that’s just not the case when we talk about American college students today.<br /> -David Gooblar</p> <p>We need to work to earn their trust, to convince our students that we’re working for them, that our job is to help them develop, learn, and grow.<br /> -David Gooblar</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297487">One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable, by David Gooblar</a></li> <li><a href="https://pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/">Pedagogy Unbound: Weekly Thoughts on College Teaching from David Gooblar</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat">Stereotype Threat</a></li> <li><a href="https://hr.mit.edu/learning-topics/teams/articles/stages-development">Tuckman’s Stages of Team Formation</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/585">Episode 585: Toward Socially Just Teaching with Bryan Dewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/the_mentors_dilemma.pdf">The Mentor’s Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide, by Geoffrey L. Cohen, Claude M. Steele, & Lee D. Ross</a></li> <li><a href="https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html">Kagi Search</a></li> <li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bonni208/115471456738897486">Clip from Decoder Episode with Cory Doctorow on Mastodon</a></li> <li><a href="https://overcast.fm/+AAQLdvPtZwI">The Verge: How Silicon Valley Enshittified the Internet with Cory Doctorow</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9781942884804">Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>

42 MIN

NOV 26, 2025

Voices on AI: Jeff Young Shares Soundbites of Change

<p>Jeff Young shares clips from his Learning Curve Podcast regarding AI in higher education on episode 598 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20661" src="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png" alt="I've been really interested in how students are thinking through AI and where their perspectives are. There is not one student view. You can find students that think all kinds of things. " width="930" height="620" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe598-2.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /></p> <p>It is crazy to think of how much we’ve all learned about generative AI just in the last couple years.<br /> -Jeff Young</p> <p>I’ve been really interested in how students are thinking through AI and where their perspectives are. There is not one student view. You can find students that think all kinds of things.<br /> -Jeff Young</p> <p>Students are very aware of AI and they’re also very aware of how it’s changing the job market that they might enter.<br /> -Jeff Young</p> <p>One danger of these tools is that they give you such instant gratification. There’s a hit of dopamine.<br /> -Jeff Young</p> <p>Students are using AI tools, not just for academics. They’re experimenting with AI.<br /> -Jeff Young</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://learningcurve.fm/">Learning Curve Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_LeBlanc_(university_president)">Paul LeBlanc</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.mahabali.me/about/">Maha Bali</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/average-young-person-25-years-phone-screen-time-hwt76mnpq">Students ‘will spend 25 years on their mobiles’ in The Times, by Mark Sellman</a></li> <li><a href="https://notebooklm.google/">Google NotebookLM</a></li> <li><a href="https://teaching.resources.osu.edu/teaching-topics/supporting-student-learning">Supporting Student Learning and Metacognition</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.shellgame.co/podcast">Shell Game Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.anxiousmachine.com/">Phonograph Podcast</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>

38 MIN

NOV 20, 2025

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

<p>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.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20602" src="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png" alt="Continue to learn, reflect, and keep moving. Go somewhere." width="930" height="620" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tihe597-5.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /></p> <p>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.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p>What the game allows people to do is to be a little bit playful, laugh, and smile as we explore very serious things.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p>It can be helpful to have a map when we think about all of the different ways that artificial intelligence might impact our teaching.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p>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.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p>Continue to learn, reflect, and keep moving. Go somewhere.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://openpraxis.org/articles/10.55982/openpraxis.16.1.631">Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies, by Anuj Gupta, Yasser Atef, Anna Mills, & Maha Bali</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/ai">Teaching in Higher Ed AI Resources and Episodes</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.allaboardhe.ie/">All Aboard – Digital Skills Map (Ireland)</a></li> <li><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2024/02/26/where-are-the-crescents-in-ai/">Where are the crescents in AI? by Maha Bali</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/different-critiques-of-ai-in-education/">Different Critiques of AI in Education, by Maha Bali</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/critical-ai-literacy-is-not-enough-introducing-care-literacy-equity-literacy-teaching-philosophies-a-slide-deck/">Critical AI Literacy is Not Enough: Introducing Care Literacy, Equity Literacy & Teaching Philosophies, by Maha Bali</a></li> <li><a href="https://leonfurze.com/ai-ethics/">Teaching AI Ethics, by Leon Furze</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo">Scooby-Doo</a></li> <li><a href="https://leonfurze.com/2024/07/19/ai-metaphors-we-live-by-the-language-of-artificial-intelligence/">AI Metaphors We Live By: The Language of Artificial Intelligence, by Leon Furze</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/">Her (2013)</a></li> <li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922">On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots, by Bender, Gebru, et al.</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/the-ai-con/">Episode 576: The AI Con with Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779">The Princess Bride (1987)</a></li> <li><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5127162">Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations, by Anna Mills & Nate Angell</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web">ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG, by Ted Chiang</a></li> <li><a href="https://bryanmmathers.com/permission-slip/">Permission Slip, by Bryan Mathers from Visual Thinkery</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/8j_E7Q1E3tw?si=bSLEknqs-faVbwVH">How Will AI Impact Gen Z?</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>

33 MIN

NOV 13, 2025

Teaching, Learning, and the Lessons of Grief

<p>Christy Albright + Clarissa Sorensen Unruh share about teaching, learning, and the lessons of grief on episode 596 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20605" src="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png" alt="The big griefs in my life stay forever." width="930" height="620" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TIHE596-5-1.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /></p> <p>Take two deep breaths.<br /> -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh</p> <p>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.<br /> -Christy Albright</p> <p>Anticipatory grief is when you know something is coming and you’re already grieving that situation.<br /> -Christy Albright</p> <p>People assume that grief gets smaller, and actually we grow around it.<br /> -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh</p> <p>The big griefs in my life stay forever.<br /> -Christy Albright</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/2025/10/11/3b-communities/">Bonni fact checks her anecdote about birds</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vxwmcn0Stio">Fractals: Is Hasan Smarter than a 13-year-old Math Genius</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vxwmcn0Stio">Peter Felten: Can We Teach Curiosity?</a></li> <li><a href="https://christyalbright.com/">Resources for Grieving (Christy’s website)</a></li> <li><a href="https://capsuletracker.com/">Capsule</a></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9780763623449"><span class="s2">Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds</span></a></span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9780763619619"><span class="s2">The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds</span></a></span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9781401971366"><span class="s2">The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins</span></a></span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53916/educators-guide-adhd"><span class="s2">An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, by Karen Costa</span></a></span></li> <li class="li2"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/good-hang-with-amy-poehler"><span class="s2">Good Hang with Amy Poehler</span></a></span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53916/educators-guide-adhd"><span class="s2">An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, by Karen Costa</span></a></span></li> </ul> <p></div></p>

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