Actual Intelligence with Steve Pearlman
For those value human thinking in the age of the artificial kind, "Actual Intelligence" explores why critical thinking (by humans) is more needed than ever. Led by the founder of The Critical Thinking Institute, Dr. Steve Pearlman, "Actual Intelligence" offers interviews with thought leaders who are challenging existing ideas, discussions about where current ideas are falling short across the socio-political landscape, insights into current events, and research-based ideas for how to incorporate better human thinking into life, the workplace, school, parenting, etc. If you want a sense of Dr. Pearlman's expertise, check out his viral Editor's Choice TEDx here: https://youtu.be/Bry8J78Awq0?si=iWaDdSnRPBOAANcY
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Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success.
What's the relationship between thinking and studentship? How can we -- and why should we -- move students to think about disciplinarity? Are colleges promoting the thinking of which Newman advises students? And how can they benefit from his ideas regardless?
Is ChatGPT friend or foe? Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms? Is "the academic essay dead"? Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool for critical thinking that we should embrace as a new ally in teaching students?
As Steve discusses, ChatGPT certainly is a revelation, but no one is really talking about why, and it might not be what you expect.
Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing, Joe, Michelle, and Steve get into rubrics and questions of ...
- privilege and the expression of structuralized racism
- the effort to dismantle public education through standardization
- how rubrics as a concept contribute to the undermining of teaching as a profession,
and so much more.
Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubricization, as well as whatever it is that we are doing, good and bad, as an educational system regarding teaching, learning, democracy, assessment, studentship, dialogue, politics, critical thinking, teacher training, privilege, race, class, and our greater (and lesser?) humanity.
Spoil...
Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson in 2014. Frances is a member of the New Zealand Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs (2022), and named one of the top 50 EdTech Educators in the World by EdTech International (2016). They discuss progressive teaching practices and the wide-scale implementation of change across New Zea...
Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless perfectly sensible--root of its challenges.
Student vs. faculty conceptions of rigor
G.I. infections
"Summer School"
Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the academy.
Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after receiving a petition from students complaining about his course. What's really at the heart of NYU's actions? What role did the petition play? What role should rigor play in education? And what in the world does the movie, Demolition Man, have to do with any of this?
Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time.
- What really happens when we give Excalibur to Uryens?
- Why should you have a campfire in your classroom?
- Should Maddie marry an NFL player...
Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time.
- What really happens when we give Excalibur to Uryens?
- Why should you have a campfire in your classroom?
- Should Maddie marry an NFL player...
Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do, joins Headagogy to discuss his latest book, Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning. The discussion with Bain not only delves into examples of these courses and their relationship with problem based learning, but also into critical ideas for teaching and learning, such as why "expectation failure" is so absolutely cr...
In this concluding episode on peer assessment, Steve conveys the research on peer assessment, learning outcomes, and soft skills. There should be no doubts about its value, especially, in the words of Walter Lippman, "It takes wisdom to understand wisdom. The music means nothing if the audience is deaf."
Continuing his assessment into peer assessment as an important method of ungrading, Steve not only talks about how he implements it, but several other important issues, such as how peer assessment:
- De-emphasizes the focus on grades
- Relieves students' stress
- Fosters democratic ideals and an empowered populous, and
- IMPROVES learning outcomes.
In this first episode of a three part series, Steve delves into the hot topic of "ungrading" with a focus on the particular and unique value that involving students in assessment brings to the greater ungrading discussion. Learn more about grades as the locus of power in academia, the unconscious forces behind grades, students' literal capacity (or lack thereof) to understand grades, the relationship between grades ...
The continuation of the interview with Kieran O'Mahony.
This interview with Kieran delves into fascinating neuroscience about learning that can help transform what we do in our classrooms through understanding things like the Reticular Activating System, working memory, and neurotransmitters. Kieran offers concrete things every educator can immediately adapt in order to improve their learning outcomes and their students' enjoyment of education. At the same time, the interview del...
What is the relationship between STEM and creativity? Or, at least, what's the perceived relationship? And what happens when we invest millions of dollars and years of effort to improving STEM educational practices? What happens cognitively when we do it well for just a few months? All that and more, including a shoutout to Louisiana.
Steve interviews Dr. Cornelius N. Grove about his most recent book, A Mirror for Americans, which delves into the research as to why students in East Asia invariably outperform American students on international tests. The discussion explores myths about education in East Asia, such as the misconception about drilling, and delves into educational and cultural differences that make students in East Asia so successful. This podcast...
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