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Values and Change, Our Ongoing Convo about bell hook’s Teaching to Transgress

Sean and curry finish discussing bell hook's "A Revolution of Values" and "Embracing Change," Teaching to Transgress.

 

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Vulnerability and Self-actualization, Our Part 2 Response to bell hook’s ”Engaged Pedagogy”

The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's "Engaged Teaching," Teaching to Transgress. Sean and curry finish discussing the chapter as they strive to know and think about how to apply hook's call to vulnerability and self-actualization.

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”Teaching as a Practice of Freedom,” Our Part 1 Response to bell hook’s ”Engaged Pedagogy”

The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's "Engaged Teaching," Teaching to Transgress. Sean and curry can barely make it through a few pages as they grapple with hook's call to "teaching as a practice of freedom."

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A Pedagogy of Being and Becoming from bell hook’s ”Introduction,” Teaching to Transgress

The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's Teaching to Transgress, starting with her "Introduction." Sean and curry reflect on what it means to be and become engaged in the classroom.

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A.I. is(n’t) a Cheating, Writing Tool

The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about an NYT article by Kevin Roose titled, "We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting," because websites that write papers for students is alarming and because websites that write papers for students is amazing.

Read Roose's article (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/ai-technology-progress.html)

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Finally, here's some more cool, nerdy teacher stuff written after Sean and curry recorded this episode:

AI-Generated Essays Are Nothing to Worry About (https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/10/24/ai-generated-essays-are-nothing-worry-about-opinion)

 

Machines Can Craft Essays. How Should Writing Be Taught Now? (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/10/26/machines-can-craft-essays-how-should-writing-be-taught-now)

 

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HyFlexing - WTF was HyFlex? Students Speak!

Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking with Sean's students about their experiences and ideas about teaching and learning in flexible, hybrid modalities.

HyFlexing: Approaching Finals

Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about lessons learned in content delivery and building community in parallel modalities.

HyFlexing: Midsemester

Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about the student experiences with content and the teacher experiences with assessment at the midsemester moment.

HyFlexing: The First Few Weeks

Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about what class community looks like and what role assessment plays when you teach this shit for the first time.

HyFlexing: Assessing Assessment

Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about contract grading, rubrics, and the roles teachers play as coaches and building inspectors.