The Conversation

In this season's finale, I talk to Jonathan (@jonathandehaan) and James (@cheapshot), who are professors in Japan teaching English language. Confronted with the challenge of remote teaching without a robust learning management system, each of them have found their own innovative pedagogical approach to teaching, using the pedagogy of Multiliteracies and Connected Learning. Jonathan and James are also co-editors of the Ludic Language Pedagogy, an open-sourced journal exploring games and play in language teaching. To hear more about them and their journal, check out their podcast!

Clara and Aaron talk to two international students, Grace and Yan, about their experiences with remote/online learning. Both of them are taking courses that have had to make a sudden pivot to remote learning. They are also enrolled in an online course designed to be delivered online. That course also happens to be about online learning, and for that class, they had to design an online mini-unit. ((insert Inception theme)). In our conversation, we ask them to compare their experiences and to share their perspectives about what worked and didn't work for them.

In this episode, we chat with Nafiza, alumni of our Educational Technology program, and now working as Educational Technology Specialist at Teachers College, Columbia University. Together, we discuss tips that we think may help anyone new to online course design and instruction. Our topics include: How is online teaching different from face-to-face teaching? What communication tools work best for us?How do we build community? How do we design discussions? How do we present instructions? What mistakes did we make?Applications MentionedDiscordPeardeckPlaypositSeesawSlackVoiceThread

Our guest this week is Brandon Dove, the Coordinator of Virtual Campus and Online Services at the Learning and Writing Centers. Brandon discusses what these centers are, and how students can take advantage of them to succeed and become better learners.LinksBrandon's introduction video for the Writing CenterThe Learning Center websiteThe Writing Center websiteList of skills you can developScheduling an appointment

Our guests are Professor Matthew Wright, chair and professor of Adelphi's physics department, and two of his students, Carissa and Ravyn. We focus on the importance of getting support from our peers, and of fostering a community in an online class. We discuss the different ways that the instructors stay in touch with students and share ideas on how to best communicate our support for peers and colleagues. Should instructors put up a front of strength or show students their own struggles? How do students feel about that?ResourcesMatthew Wright's blog

Aaron and Clara are joined by Adelphi University professors Devin Thornburg, Ionas Sapountzis and Lisa Minicozzi on the topic of social-emotional learning (SEL) in this time of remote teaching. Our guests offer perspectives as school psychologists and educational leaders on how we might be able to support children and parents during this time of crisis.

After listening to all the case study analyses from the students in my Technology and Instructional Design class, Professor Clara Bauler returns to share her thoughts on their ideas. We discuss the highlights from the analyses and the practical concerns on implementation.ResourcesQuestion stems framed around Bloom's TaxonomyMusic credit: Brandon Dove

In this episode, Clara and Aaron talk to Ming, a professor at Adelphi University, Paige, a student at Adelphi and a teacher, and Diego, an eighth grade student. Clara, Ming, and Paige also share their perspectives as parents having to deal with this transition to remote learning and how it has impacted their daily lives.

In last week's episode, Professor Clara Bauler presented a case study for my students to respond to. This week, the students have listened to the episode and provided their own recommendations. Will they embarrass me in front of Professor Bauler? Or will they make me proud? Tune in and find out!

Our first episode of Season Three is a conversation between Aaron and one of the new co-hosts, Professor Clara Bauler. In this discussion, we talk about how we think of technology use in teaching and learning. Clara also presents a case study for the students of Technology and Instructional Design to listen and respond to in an upcoming episode.

In our season finale, Brooke and Krissy join the podcast to discuss rubric, feedback, and using social media for teaching. Our readings were Chapter 8 from Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design and Rothwell et al's chapter on analyzing the potential use of existing and emerging technologies for instructional design. Towards the end we also discuss how Season Three of the Conversation might evolve and be incorporated into the clas.

This week, Jeanell and Shannon join me to talk about productive failure, a topic that has recurred in our in-class discussions on embracing failure. We picked articles from a Special Issue on failure from Thinking Skills and Creativity. We also talked about assessment from Chapter 7 of Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design.

For this episode, Christine and I started with a chapter from Warren Berger's A More Beautiful Question. The chapter was "Why We Stop Questioning." After that we discussed how to start instructional planning using core ideas, standards, and essential questions. In addition to Berger, we also discussed Chapters 3 and 5 of Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design.

In this bonus episode, I talk to Ryan Sobeck, an alumni of the educational technology program at Adelphi University and currently an instructional design at the Faculty Center of Professional Excellence at Adelphi. Ryan shares his experience taking the course and what it's like to be an instructional designer at an institution of higher education.

Yi-Hsin (Novia) and Shannon join the Conversation to talk about what it means to understanding something. Chapters 2 and 4 from Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design.

In this episode, I talk to Brandon, who is a musician, about how experts and novices learn, and what constitutes being an expert, especially in the field of music. Our readings are Chapter 2 of Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (2000) How People Learn and Chapter 2 of CAST (2014) Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice.CAST (2014) Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice.

In this episode, I talk to Tanja, back again from the first episode, and Xingyue, an international student from China. We discuss what happens to the brain when learning occurs. Our readings are: Chapter 5 of Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (2000) How People Learn, Chapter 3 of CAST (2014) Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, and Shane Parrish's interview with Barbara Oakley on learning how to learn. Coming up next week: Experts and novices. Our readings will be Chapter 2 of Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (2000) How People Learn and Chapter 2 of CAST (2014) Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice. Tweet your questions at us using #askedt503.Special thanks to Brandon Dove and Kristina Linacre for composing the intro and outro music!

Our readings are: Kirschner and van Merriënboer (2013) Do learners really know best? and Dembo and Howard (2006) Advice about the use of learning style, and the 2015 TED Talk by Tesia Marshik titled "Learning styles and the importance of critical self-reflection." We also listened to the Season One episode, with Marina and Angela.Coming up next week: The Brain! Our readings will be Chapter 5 of Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (2000) How People Learn, Chapter 3 of CAST (2014) Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, and Shane Parrish's interview with Barbara Oakley on learning how to learn. Tweet your questions at us using #askedt503.A special thanks to Brandon Dove for composing the intro and outro music!

New episode of The Conversation comes out on Wednesday, September 4th, with Tanja as my guest. A special thanks to Brandon Dove for composing the music!