Phil Tietjen
@ptietjen.bsky.social
Exploring & Implementing Learning Designs ; PhD Penn State | https://philtietjen.net/
Another good, thoughtful conversation on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: "The AI Grief Cycle"; teachinginhighered.com/podcast/the-...
The AI Grief Cycle, with Christopher Ostro – Teaching in Higher Ed
Christopher Ostro discusses the AI grief cycle on episode 601 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
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Excited to share a guest post on my blog this week by Jayme Dyer, Katie Mattaini, and Eden Tanner about alt grading in large classes. This is something I get asked about all the time, so I'm glad to have an opportunity to share their work on the topic! emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/alternativ...
Alternative Grading in Large Classes
How to implement pedagogical values within logistical constraints
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Some nice creative teaching ideas for challenges on AI & building critical thinking; eg, "Teaching Fact-Checking Through Deliberate Errors"; postplagiarism.com/2025/03/23/e...
Embracing AI as a Teaching Tool: Practical Approaches for the Postplagiarism Classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful educational tool in the postplagiarism classroom. Effective strategies include incorporating AI into discussions, enhancing critical thinking, teaching …
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Book cover reveal! My book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, will be released in June 2025! To learn more & to be notified when it's available for preorder, visit www.tolunoah.com/book-coming-... #HigherEd #EdDev #FacDev #EduSky #Academia #AcademicSky #Facilitation
Great interview in the Intentional Teaching podcast with Leonard Cassuto on ideas for improving graduate education, especially as it relates to providing them with helpful supports to enable success post-PhD intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
Rethinking Doctoral Education with Leonard Cassuto - Intentional Teaching
Doctoral education in the United States works really well... when it works. Many doctoral students experience a significant mismatch between their career goals and the goals of their graduate programs...
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"The Year of Curiosity" This is a great name for an education-focused podcast, especially when so many educators are grappling with how to approach generative AI Kudos to Carleton College yearofcuriositypodcast.podbean.com
The Year of Curiosity Podcast | Perlman Learning and Teaching Center
Join Carleton College faculty members Jennifer Wolff, Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, and George Cusack, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, as we journey into the wor...
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Using NotebookLM as tool for broadening the reach of educational technology research via George Veletsianos's fantastic blog (eg, "... listen closely to how the topic is introduced, explore the analogies, and pay attention to the accessible language") www.veletsianos.com/2024/09/30/u...
Using NotebookLM to facilitate knowledge mobilization and broader dissemination of research
Learning technologies research can be useful to many different groups of people. This is one of the reasons why there has been an emphasis on getting research findings into the hands of broader audien...
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Another good episode on the Intentional Teaching podcast; interesting approach of using the phrase "Growth Guide" rather than rubric to promote instructor buy-in overcast.fm/+AA9EYiKxVPo
Improving Teaching at the Institution Level with Lindsay Masland — Intentional Teaching
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage.This is a story about institutional change. The product of that change—a new framework for assessing teaching quality now in use at App...
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Enjoyed some good talks at the most recent Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference (SoTL); eg, Kelly Theisen's AI Experiments for Students; Sarah Bunnell's keynote, Humanizing Teaching and Learning through Pedagogical Partnership facultydevelopment.kennesaw.edu/scholarly-te...
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summit
Our conference, with a rich tradition of celebrating research on teaching and learning, has been re-branded as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summit to better reflect the terminology of the ...
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Like many higher ed folks, I've enjoyed many thoughtful pieces on AI, learning & teaching. I wonder how David Jonassen's canonical article, "Computers as Cognitive Tools" might shed light on the challenges faculty & learning designers are discussing link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Computers as cognitive tools: Learningwith technology, notfrom technology - Journal of Computing in Higher Education
COGNITIVE TOOLS are computer-based applications that are normally used as productivity software. However, these applications may also function as knowledge representation formalisms that require learn...
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Some good for thought in this Chronicle of Higher Education article; also nice to see that this article included a Teaching Assistant perspective as well as faculty www.chronicle.com/article/cust...
College Feels Transactional to Many Students. Who — or What — Is to Blame?
Students increasingly see themselves as customers and college as a means to an end. Faculty members are wrestling with the consequences.
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Fantastic discussion in Intentional Teaching podcast of cooperative games I learning, eg, Daybreak overcast.fm/+9EYgSm3XI | www.daybreakgame.org
Learning at Play with Kerry Whittaker and Matteo Menapace — Intentional Teaching
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage.This episode is all about games as learning experiences, with not one but two interviews about the 2023 cooperative board game Daybreak...
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This week's Intentional Teaching newsletter is all about clickable image polling questions. Read it (and subscribe) here: derekbruff.ck.page/posts/clicka....
Clickable image polling questions
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Researchers are harnessing crowdsourced data to identify birds that haven't been spotted in over a decade. In today's episode, we'll learn about the species that haven't been spotted in over a decade but might still be out there. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284
Amidst the tidal wave of articles & blog posts on AI, Marc Watkins is writing some of the most compelling pieces on its impact on education; eg, AI's impact on reading open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
No One is Talking About AI's Impact on Reading
What does it mean when we stop reading texts and instead offload that skill to AI? We desperately need another ChatGPT moment outside of text generation to wake people up and let them know how quickly...
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Love this interview with Bill Walton by David Axelrod overcast.fm/+BEzW25KlPE
Best of The Axe Files: Bill Walton — The Axe Files with David Axelrod
Bill Walton, one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and former basketball announcer, died this week. David talked with Bill back in 2016 about leadership, what he learned playing for John Woode...
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Nice & short curated list of summer reading for educators looking to go deeper on understanding generative AI the8blog.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/a...
A GenAI Smorgasbord
This weekend in the United States, the country celebrated Memorial Day, which honors military personnel who died while serving. The holiday is usually filled with parades, services, and other publi…
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Nifty "open" tool for enabling sharing in a fediverse landscape; this blog post also includes info on adding it as a WordPress plugin werd.io/2024/some-sh...
Some ShareOpenly updates
Making it even easier to share to modern social media
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My Favorite Actions for Hazel, the Preeminent File Management Software for the Mac : https://amerpie.lol/2024/05/10/my-favorite-actions.html
Highlights from the Annotated 24 conference, eg Moving from Discussion Boards to Social Annotation web.hypothes.is/blog/10-thin...
10 Things we Learned at Annotated 2024 : Hypothesis
10 Things We Learned at AnnotatED 2024 If you thought social annotation was just an EdTech buzzword, AnnotatED 2024 was here to prove you wrong. This year’s conference was a […]
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It was great to hear these computer science professors highlight project based learning vs traditional assessments (eg, exams) teaforteaching.com/339-industry...
339. Industry to Faculty – tea for teaching
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Short video & blog post on "... four important issues that researchers and designers need to consider when designing/studying digital learning environments: via www.veletsianos.com/2016/06/21/a... A notable aspect in this is the learning that occurs in non-academic environments
A short video on issues important to Digital Learning Environments
Digital learning environments are everywhere. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are used almost universally. People learn how to play the ukulele by watching YouTube videos. They learn how to grow org...
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Nice alternative way to approach the evaluation of teaching from folks at Boise State University; I especially like the criterion that emphasizes reflective practice (eg, regularly engaging in professional development) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
rubric for evaluation of teaching effectiveness
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A lot of good resources on microlectures & creating effective educational videos in the most recent episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Tolu Noah teachinginhighered.com/podcast/how-...
Good AI assignment idea from Anna Mills; aipedagogy.org/assignment/a... | hat tip to Maha Bali blog.mahabali.me/uncategorize...
I've been exploring different workflows for Obsidian and came across this really nifty one blogs.oregonstate.edu/osuteaching/...
Good conversation with Arizona State University on their work in the AI space & partnership with OpenAI overcast.fm/+_6bjnU9Sc
Good, thoughtful debate on nuances surrounding AI & graduate education via Science in Between podcast overcast.fm/+i46e1V1Rk/1...
Love this set of AI & Education modules created by students & for students, and also available via Creative Commons license canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/51655