{"id":2495,"date":"2016-01-05T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2016-01-05T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:00:06","slug":"15-lessons-from-2015s-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/2016\/01\/05\/15-lessons-from-2015s-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"15 lessons from 2015’s podcasts (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the interest of practicing the curation piece of my PKM system, I'm investing some time in reflecting back on a year of podcasting in 2015.<\/p>\n

I'm grateful to each guest who accepted the invitation to be on the show.<\/p>\n

As I consider what I want to take with me into 2016, I'm focusing on key lessons for me from 2015's Teaching in Higher Ed podcasts.<\/p>\n

This is part one of a three-part series on lessons from the podcast. I'll share five lessons in each post, for a total of 15.<\/p>\n

Lesson #1<\/h2>\n

Things are going to be messy and that's ok.<\/p>\n

I shared with Jose Bowen<\/a> about one of my bigger teaching failures. Instead of shaming me, he celebrated it and told me to keep it up.<\/p>\n

I believe in noisy and messy classrooms. – Jose Bowen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/30<\/a><\/p>\n

Lesson #2<\/h2>\n

There's a lot one can do with a timer.<\/p>\n

Natalie Houston introduced me to the idea of using timers<\/a> more in my teaching and productivity. When I'm meeting with students, I'll now set a timer on my Apple Watch. When it goes off, the student doesn't realize it, but I know to start to wrap things up to move on to my next commitment.<\/p>\n

I am able to be more present for others in my life using timers. Plus, I can make sure I don't get too caught up in something solitary and miss out on other priorities.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/34<\/a><\/p>\n

Lesson #3<\/h2>\n

If you're I'm not having my students solve problems or the problems I'm having them solve lack interest to them, I'm missing the boat in my teaching.<\/p>\n

2015 meant that I had the opportunity to speak with someone who I have admired<\/a> from afar since I started teaching in higher ed more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Ken Bain's voice has been in my head, ever since, encouraging me to create opportunities for students to solve problems that they find interesting or beautiful.<\/p>\n

[Good teaching] is about having students answer questions or solving problems that they find intriguing, interesting, or beautiful. -Ken Bain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/36<\/a><\/p>\n

Lesson #4<\/h2>\n

Digital literacy is less about generations and more about context.<\/p>\n

Steve Wheeler challenged the notion of digital natives on episode #38<\/a> and has had me thinking so much more about context ever since.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about age; it\u2019s about context. -Steve Wheeler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/38<\/a><\/p>\n

Lesson #5<\/h2>\n

Keep content independent from an LMS and therefore more portable into whatever system comes my way.<\/p>\n

Scott Self helped me see a whole new potential for using Evernote<\/a> (or any cloud-based notebook system) in my teaching. He stressed keeping content out of LMSs, for the most part, since at any point, a university could decide to make a change to the system that they use, leaving all our course shell creations useless.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/48<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2 – coming soon<\/h2>\n

Stay tuned for next week's post with part 2 of lessons learned from podcasting in 2015.<\/p>\n

[reminder]What is a lesson you're taking from the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast into 2016? [\/reminder]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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