Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Season Two, Episode 6: Some Thoughts on AI, Part Two.

In this episode we consider the ground rules for dealing with AI in our classrooms.  What constitutes a responsible, creative response to the challenge of AI for teachers, students, and parents?  We discuss the essential role that human agency should play in any successful engagement with AI --using it rather than it using you. Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Season Two Episode 5: AI in the Classroom -- Use It Before It Uses You?

What should teachers and students do about our society's sudden obsession with Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, we revisit our previous season's podcast on the topic, reflecting on the role that recent generative AI technologies (LLMs, ChatGPT, and related programs) should play in contemporary education. The speed and intensity with which AI technology has been inserted into our daily lives requires a thoughtful response from both teachers and students, if we are to use the technology rather than have the technology use us. The episode looks at why the current AI debate is so confusing.  How we can rethink or reframe this issue to shape an intelligent response to its implicit challenges?  This episode is the first of a two-part series. Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Season Two Episode 4: Mistakes and Values, Part II

In this episode, I follow up on my thoughts from the previous episode, Mistakes and Values.  I explore how to implement creative learning in the transformative classroom with the explicit use of mistakes analysis, sharing how I applied the insights of writers Neil Postman and Kathryn Schulz for the benefit of both teachers and learners. Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Season Two Episode 3: Mistakes and Values, Part I

In this episode we examine the obstacles to creative engagement with the learning potential of mistakes in the classroom, focusing on the challenges for teachers as professionals.  We use the experiences of the host to illustrate some of these challenges. Part One of a two-part episode on Mistakes and Values. Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Season Two: Episode 2--Teaching the Magic of Language

We start off our new season with an interview -- a conversation with an emeritus professor of literature, Dr. Robert Seufert, who reflects on his decades of experience in the classroom teaching English.  His experiments in the creation of transformational experiences for students are applicable to a wide variety of teaching environments and situations.  I think you'll find his reflections thought-provoking; he has taken the time since his retirement to draw remarkable insights into what teaching and learning can achieve in the classroom. Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education