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Higher education doesn’t do a great job of preparing faculty to teach, generally speaking, that’s not new, but especially online teaching.
-Flower Darby

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.
-Flower Darby

Sometimes you don’t need all the latest bells and whistles; you don’t need the latest iPhone. We can be effective with simpler tools.
-Flower Darby

We can’t be joyful if we’re always working.
-Flower Darby

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We could actually create an educational system. Not so that it deals with the problems we have with AI, but so that those problems are no longer relevant.
-Todd Zakrajsek

If you don’t have students attention, they can’t learn because if you don’t attend to something, you can’t learn it.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Keep in mind that you’re the expert. This is your assignment. You know what you’re doing, you know the content, so then you can judge what AI gives you, what works, and what still may need some work.
-Lew Ludwig

What this gets down to is backward design; we start with the learning goals. We should figure out how to assess them, and then decide if AI fits in that or not.
-Lew Ludwig

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One thing that my work on inclusive teaching focuses on, is really being able to understand your learner’s motivations.
-Norma Montague

One of the ideas that I learned from a colleague who had recommended a book was the idea of rebranding office hours as student hours.
-Norma Montague

I think it’s important to help students understand what those student hours are for and how they can get the most out of them.
-Norma Montague

When students feel safe in the classroom, then they’re going to contribute, invest. That’s when I find that I can really increase their rigor and challenge them more.
-Norma Montague

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An AI agent is an LLM that runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal.
-Teddy quoting Simon Willison’s definition

The process of having a task, write a report, use a tool, web search, and do it over and over again until you feel like you’ve gotten the full sort of spectrum of things—that I think is what an agent really is.
-Teddy Svoronos

These LLMs are now becoming like this intermediary between me and the actual content. And so I’m optimizing in a different way than I used to.
-Teddy Svoronos

I think there’s an analogy with these tools that I’ve been thinking of as cognitive debt, which is that as you offload to them, there are things that they’ll do that you won’t quite understand.
-Teddy Svoronos

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We see SOTL as simply inquiry into teaching and learning for the purposes of improving teaching and learning in context and then contributing to what we know about teaching and learning in support of the broader aims of higher education.
-Nancy Chick

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.
-Katarina Mårtensson

I can’t go through this book and say who wrote this sentence or this section or whose idea this part was, because it really is a product of the three of us.
-Peter Felten

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Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention.
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Once you are comfortable with your system and you’re iterating, it actually starts to become second nature, not only to professional life, but to personal life as well.
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

An exercise that I did with my supervisor once was to actually go through each of these tasks and to see what I thought was high priority, was it actually high priority for the job that I was in?
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

 

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Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it’s going to be to keep up, I don’t have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they’ve subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information,  we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we’ve piqued their curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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I do think online education is going to be the focal point for this next year, and how it can survive with an agentic AI. My feeling is, we need to be offering students more embodied experiences and disembodied spaces.
-Marc Watkins

Every technology has its affordances and the things that are negative about it too; your cell phone, the computer, the fact we’re talking about this right now on the systems that we are using, cloud computing, that all has a cost.
-Marc Watkins

For an incoming freshman student in college to take 4 or 5 classes and have 4 or 5 very different AI policies, 4 or 5 very different understandings of what AI is, it is incredibly confusing.
-Marc Watkins

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An ePortfolio is basically a curated collection of student work. It includes reflection, and it’s usually across the college experience.
-Lynn Meade

Anytime I teach portfolios, it’s really big that we talk about audience and purpose. Who is your audience and what is your purpose?
-Lynn Meade

There’s something particularly lovely about seeing student or faculty members’ written comments about my work. Both the critiques and those comments that build me up, and how very powerful they are, and how much they mean to me.
-Lynn Meade

It’s not about the tech. The most important thing is, am I writing? Am I able to think about myself? Am I able to reflect about myself?
-Lynn Meade

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Great teaching, and I think great life, is this adaptive, responsive thing, pulling out the bugs or getting things back in balance.
-Danny Mann

Peace and joy are really interrelated, and I gravitated a lot towards these, as I spent time studying and practicing mindfulness practices.
-Danny Mann

If you discover your why, you could basically feel much more energized and joyful about what you do, if you align your life with that.
-Danny Mann

Giving students space to speak and share ups and downs. So the ironic leading by listening.
-Danny Mann

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The reason I did it is because I just wanted to better understand what my students were going through.
-Mike Cross

I love that, that idea of tiny experiments. I think that that is absolutely critical because we’re all so busy.
-Mike Cross

Anytime you can put yourself in someone else’s shoes, it makes you a better person, right? Whether that’s a better teacher, a better spouse, a better friend, a better citizen, anything.
-Mike Cross

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“All we’re really trying to do is create these conditions that can help our students flourish and thrive within our classrooms while maintaining the rigor of our work.”
– Theresa Duong

“I felt like I could thrive in my PhD program because I had these people who kept pushing me to go and kept pushing me to take care of myself.”
– Theresa Duong

“Pedagogy, the formal definition in my mind, is this art and science of teaching and learning.”
– Theresa Duong

“To me, wellness is really about thriving and flourishing in the work that you’re doing.”
– Theresa Duong

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“I suggest, sign up to a course that you have no idea, and then we’ll talk later. In other words, feel what it means to be a novice.”
– Sheila Tabanli

“An expert in a field doesn’t necessarily mean they will be able to effectively teach that content.”
– Sheila Tabanli

“There are differences between how experts and novices look at this content.”
– Sheila Tabanli

“We can still slow down. We can still show how an expert solves a math problem without sacrificing from the rigor or the content.”
– Sheila Tabanli

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“When you’re moving fast, it’s really easy to do things unreflectively and to make a poor decision without even realizing it.”
-Josh Brake

“The special thing about bicycles, at least in their non-electronic versions, is that they’re totally human-powered. So it’s all based on the energy that you put in, and it’s just transforming that energy, to make you more efficient and be able to move faster.”
-Josh Brake

“When you have something like an E bike, that augmentation can be used in a variety of different ways, so it can be used to actually extend your capacity.”
-Josh Brake

“It’s really this question about what’s the intention that you’re bringing to the technology when you come to the tool, what are the questions that you’re asking? And fundamentally, it’s a question of purpose and intention. Why are you using this?”
-Josh Brake

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Curiosity is just this sort of force of nature. So tap in to your students creativity, your students passions and interests as a way to support them in reaching and achieving those challenges that you also hold for them.
-Karen Costa

That’s a heavy thing for folks with ADHD to carry, that we are a burden on the other students in the classroom, that we are a burden on our teachers. And that is simply not true.
-Karen Costa

What we know now is that many times those are what are called stims in neurodivergent and ADHD and autistic communities. And those are actually a way that a lot of folks help themselves to stay present and regulated in their bodies so that they can direct their attention to the teacher or to the task at hand.
-Karen Costa

The best thing we can do to make the course real is as an instructor to be present in that online course.
-Karen Costa

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I do think that we are going to have to figure out how to focus on student learning in an era where students have this new technology that will short-circuit the learning we want.
-José Bowen

My advice to people is that I know we’re overwhelmed, so don’t ask AI to do something you love. Ask AI to do something that you hate.
-José Bowen

The real problem with AI privacy is that now we have a tool that can mine all that, right?  I’m more worried about AI as a tool for analysis and observation, and how that’s going to change the world in which we live.
-José Bowen

I think the potential is, you’re probably going to get more bias because people are going to use AI poorly. And so bias and privacy are two categories of ugly that are pretty big.
-José Bowen

 

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“It’s another form of thinking, it’s another form of organizing information and that we have to treat it seriously as such. The computer scientist actually recommends that we think about generative AI as children. These are AIs that have some degree of autonomy and they’re also not very wise in the world yet, and we have to train and rear them up.”
– Bryan Alexander

“So if AI is bubble, if it turns out to be a bubble and it pops, this might be bad news for the entire economy.”
– Bryan Alexander

“The problem of how do we actually figure out what people are doing with AI within post secondary education? That’s a really great challenge because if you polled people, they have all kinds of great incentives to not respond accurately.”
– Bryan Alexander

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You don’t need to change your entire course tomorrow. What is one simple thing that you can do that will push you on the path?
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul

“The number one kind of piece of pushback that I get from faculty is I just simply cannot cover everything.”
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul

“I think at the crux of it, it is the shift in mentality between us as being, as we say, the sage on the stage to being a facilitator in the classroom.”
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul

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I never include AI in the beginning of my processes.
-C. Edward Watson

There’s a lot of incremental shifts, but the increments are quite large.
-C. Edward Watson

I would argue that maybe this is the first time in the history of higher education that we have learning outcomes that are at war with one another.
-C. Edward Watson

We’ve never built a curriculum for something that’s changing so quickly. We’re being asked to keep up with this rate of change in a meaningful way that actually serves our students well.
-C. Edward Watson

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The fact is there are things we’re grieving. Our job has profoundly changed in huge ways in a very short period of time.
-Christopher Ostro

Our traditional assessments suddenly are not working effectively like we used to think that they did.
-Christopher Ostro

I want my students to view me as a resource and as someone that they can trust.
-Christopher Ostro

When something makes me uncomfortable, I want to lean in and understand it better.
-Christopher Ostro

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When we stop aiming for perfection, we allow ourselves to then be fully present for others.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Practice 1: Start and end small.
Practice 2: Build courses around curiosity, not coverage.
Practice 3: Prioritize presence over perfection.
Practice 4: Focus on relationships.
Practice 5: Remember what is yours to do and what is not yours to do.
Practice 6: Focus on becoming.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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Most of our scars are hidden. I think most of the time people don’t see the scars that we carry.
-David Gooblar

We get such a small window into our students lives.
-David Gooblar

The imaginary idea of the college student in America is of a privileged student. And that’s just not the case when we talk about American college students today.
-David Gooblar

We need to work to earn their trust, to convince our students that we’re working for them, that our job is to help them develop, learn, and grow.
-David Gooblar

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It is crazy to think of how much we’ve all learned about generative AI just in the last couple years.
-Jeff Young

I’ve been really interested in how students are thinking through AI and where their perspectives are. There is not one student view. You can find students that think all kinds of things.
-Jeff Young

Students are very aware of AI and they’re also very aware of how it’s changing the job market that they might enter.
-Jeff Young

One danger of these tools is that they give you such instant gratification. There’s a hit of dopamine.
-Jeff Young

Students are using AI tools, not just for academics. They’re experimenting with AI.
-Jeff Young

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A lot of you have been asking me about this game that I’ve played now and facilitated at over 10 universities and conferences called Go Somewhere.
-Bonni Stachowiak

What the game allows people to do is to be a little bit playful, laugh, and smile as we explore very serious things.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It can be helpful to have a map when we think about all of the different ways that artificial intelligence might impact our teaching.
-Bonni Stachowiak

The other issue that comes up a lot as we start talking about artificial intelligence is how often it bumps up against our sense of identity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Continue to learn, reflect, and keep moving. Go somewhere.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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Take two deep breaths.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

None of the books that I researched on grief actually defined grief. It’s like they just assumed you knew what it was because it’s such a universal experience, but it’s not universally experienced by everybody in the same way.
-Christy Albright

Anticipatory grief is when you know something is coming and you’re already grieving that situation.
-Christy Albright

People assume that grief gets smaller, and actually we grow around it.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

The big griefs in my life stay forever.
-Christy Albright

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We advise lots of different ways of rethinking our relationship with work in the book.
-Roberta Hawkins

You can’t solve institutional problems with individual sacrifices.
-Leslie Kern

We are not cogs in an institutional machine.
-Roberta Hawkins

One of the challenges, is the idea that our work is kind of a calling. It’s a passion project. The institution knows that we love our work and that we are passionate about our students and that we care about bringing great ideas to fruition in the world, so it will extract every little drop of that from you in terms of your time and energy.
-Leslie Kern

Invisibilized labor is an equity issue as well as a workload issue.
-Roberta Hawkins

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Ken Bain was such good company to me and to countless people from around the world.
-Bonni Stachowiak

While I didn’t ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I’m so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he’s inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversation that was really needed.
-Dave Stachowiak

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I’m here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game.
-Carter Moulton

I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each other and wrestle with these moral and ethical questions.
-Carter Moulton

Those three questions underneath at the bottom of the card are really just trying to foster that critical thinking with students about what it is they’re making and what it is they’re doing and how they’re engaging with AI.
-Carter Moulton

I hope we don’t abandon the decades of research that has shown the benefits of peer learning, of caring, belonging, and relationships in the classroom.
-Carter Moulton

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If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people’s motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley

Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley

Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley

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There’s a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class.
-Danny Oppenheimer

You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they attend. But they also hate you, and they hate the subject and they hate everything to do with the class.
-Danny Oppenheimer

If you give people choices, sometimes they make bad choices. Scaffolding choices can help people make choices that actually align with their preferences more effectively.
-Danny Oppenheimer

Students love being treated like adults. They love having choice. Everybody loves having choice. People don’t like other people telling them what to do.
-Danny Oppenheimer

In some sense students have a preference to attend class. And in some sense they have a preference to not attend class. Those preferences can coexist in some way.
-Simon Cullen

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Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems.
-Mike Caulfield

AI doesn’t naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It’s a little bit of a bolt on afterthought.
-Mike Caulfield

Searching for information is a journey. How can we get the benefits of AI but still preserve that feeling of a journey?
-Mike Caulfield

I’m working on this issue of follow ups with AI. It is magic to get students to think of these responses as not a single transaction. They’re coaching the AI through a process, not to get a specific answer that they want, but to look at the sorts of sources that matter for the question.
-Mike Caulfield

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There’s so many different ways to capture people’s imagination through an audio feed.
-Dom Conroy

When we’re creating podcasts, we are putting ourselves on the line.
-Dom Conroy

Education is a relational experience.
-Warren Kidd

The act of teaching is reflective and reflexive.
-Warren Kidd

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They introduced a framework that attempts to identify the common features of alternative grading for growth systems that are meant to prioritize student growth and student learning over just grades and performance.
-Emily Donahoe

Those four pillars are marks that indicate progress, reattempts without penalty, clearly defined standards, and helpful feedback.
-Emily Donahoe

One of the most important functions of grades or marks given on individual assignments is to communicate to students about how they’re progressing in a certain subject. Traditional grades don’t serve this communicative function very well.
-Emily Donahoe

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I’ve also started creating these little quiz questions in them, but they’re not hard. They’re just to keep their attention going.
-M. C. Flux

Many students seem to enjoy this and actually learn well from it, so I keep doing it.
-M. C. Flux

I think these students struggle so much with attention that bringing them back with a really simple question just helps.
-M. C. Flux

The fact that students have shorter attention spans is still something we need to pay attention to. I don’t think it’s as bad as people say, but it is actually still a big piece of how I design instruction.
-M. C. Flux

A lot of students are used to rewatching things that they enjoy.
-M. C. Flux

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I had to recognize the reality that my classroom was never going to be the number one priority for people during the pandemic.
-Seth Offenbach

When we teach, why not be kind?
-Seth Offenbach

My goal is to challenge my students intellectually. My goal is not to stress them out.
-Seth Offenbach

We all miss deadlines.
-Seth Offenbach

In order to truly be kind, you have to create a safe space for the students where they feel that they can come to you, talk to you and learn with you.
-Seth Offenbach

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I am not interested in being in a war with AI. I’m not trying to be a faculty detective to see who’s using ChatGPT or not, I didn’t sign up for that work.
-Bryan Dewsbury

I’m not your enemy. I’m not against you. I’m rooting for you every single day. I really mean that.
-Bryan Dewsbury

The things I say on day one are not going to mean anything over the course of the semester if I don’t give them feedback in a reasonable time or if I’m rude when they answer a question wrong in class.
-Bryan Dewsbury

The way in which we can interact around this material doesn’t have to be one that’s dictatorial.
-Bryan Dewsbury

You don’t have to be able to save the world, but you’re obligated to try, right? And so the whole key behind that is in trying, you almost by definition achieve more.
-Bryan Dewsbury

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Our students are presented with this massive array of things they could choose from. They may not know the right things to choose or the best things to choose. And our role as educators is to kind of guide them in trying to find the most healthy options from the menu to choose from.
-Danny Liu

People want to give their students clarity. They want to give their students a bit of guidance on how to approach AI, what is going to be helpful for them for learning and not helpful for learning.
-Danny Liu

There is no way to really know if the rules that you’re putting in place are going to be followed by students, and it doesn’t mean that we need to detect them or surveil them more when they’re doing their assignments.
-Danny Liu

We need to accept the reality that students could be using AI in ways that we don’t want them to be using AI if they’re not in front of us.
-Danny Liu

Not everyone lies. Most of our students want to do the right thing. They want to learn, but they have the temptation of AI there that is saying, I can do this work for you. Just click, just chat with me.
-Danny Liu

Our role as teachers is not to be cops, it’s to teach and therefore to be in a position where we can trust you and help you make the right choice.
-Danny Liu

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Answers on their own are not interesting. They become interesting when we know the questions behind them.
-James Lang

When you take a reader on a journey, as the reader works through an essay or book that you’ve written, they spend a lot of time with you.
-James Lang

Be attentive to the person that you are on the page to the reader.
-James Lang

Start right now. That’s the most important thing.
-James Lang

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One of our ethical obligations as social workers is to engage in self care to avoid burnout.
-Adriana Aldana

Their voice really comes through in the letter format in ways that I don’t see in other forms of writing. I encourage them to loosen up a little bit with what they think I am expecting them to write about or how to write.
-Adriana Aldana

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I didn’t expect to find joy in the classroom when I started teaching political science 20 years ago.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

Joy isn’t something that we can coerce out of students.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

They seem to expect to feel dead inside in the classroom, which is heartbreaking.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

The opposite of joy isn’t suffering, it’s numbness.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

People survive injustice and they thrive.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

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I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating.
-Leslie Bayers

We feel and think better when we move.
-Leslie Bayers

I try to get students moving or engaged with sensory textures as much as possible to spark learning.
-Leslie Bayers

How we feel absolutely shapes if and how we learn. And many of us feel this in our bodies.
-Leslie Bayers

Learning is incredibly hard work. It’s one of the things that does drain the body of energy.
-Leslie Bayers

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Mr. Rodgers was a very comforting influence as a young child.
-Jennifer Baumgartner

Moving slowly or taking your time is a very key theme of Mr. Rogers neighborhood, and also Fred Rogers’ life and the way he lived it.
-Jennifer Baumgartner

He didn’t shy away from talking about difficult subjects.
-Jennifer Baumgartner

“Anything that is mentionable is manageable.”
-Jennifer Baumgartner, quoting Fred Rogers

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Gardening is something I’ve tried and failed at many times. I don’t know if it’s something you can win or fail at.
-Karen Costa

There’s a ton of research on our mental health and well being and what green spaces can do for us.
-Karen Costa

The mindset is learning from nature rather than learning about nature.
-Karen Costa

Nature is really, really good at resting.
-Karen Costa

Resilience is born of rest, of hibernating, of knowing that we’ve got to kind of go down into the ground, into the earth, in those seasons of quiet and peace in order to begin again and rejuvenate.
-Karen Costa

Diversity is the foundation of life. Diversity is strength.
-Karen Costa

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Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Sometimes there is no positive outcome when something goes wrong. Sometimes things just get messed up because people are human.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Inadvertently we have a subtext that teaching is somehow perfectible. Teaching and learning will never ever be perfectible.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

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What’s going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we’re using it to mean, it’s that it doesn’t have a proper referent in the world.
-Emily M. Bender

There’s a much broader range of people who can have opinions on AI.
-Alex Hanna

The boosters say AI is a thing. It’s inevitable, it’s imminent, it’s going to be super powerful, and it’s going to solve all of our problems. And the doomers say AI is a thing, it’s inevitable, it’s imminent, it’s going to be super powerful, and it’s going to kill us all. And you can see that there’s actually not a lot of daylight between those two positions, despite the discourse of saying these are two opposite ends of a spectrum.
-Emily M. Bender

Teachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions.
-Alex Hannay

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I never again had a static lesson plan. I was always very fluid in whatever I was going to be doing. I knew where I wanted to get, but the road could go in all sorts of different directions.
– Rolin Moe

Learning is a continuous activity in all sorts of areas and all sorts of places.
– Rolin Moe

Education is the process of helping people find things that they don’t yet know they love.
– Rolin Moe

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We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually.
-Alex Edmans

What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where something could be 100% accurate, but the inferences that we draw from them might be misleading.
-Alex Edmans

It’s not that they’re bad people, it’s that they’re people, they’re humans. And if we’re a person, we have biases.
-Alex Edmans

What I’m trying to highlight is the importance of being discerning. We want to have healthy skepticism, but we want to have the same healthy skepticism to something that we do like as something that we don’t.
-Alex Edmans

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Whenever I’m planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience.
-Tolu Noah

I don’t think there’s necessarily one right way to approach planning.
-Tolu Noah

A really important aspect of facilitation is that yes, you have a plan, but you also need to be flexible with that plan and be willing to take a rest stop or a detour if needed.
-Tolu Noah

Timing is probably one of the most important aspects of facilitation.
-Tolu Noah

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In higher education there is a need to temper the resistance and refusal of the technology with the understanding that students are using it anyway.
-Leon Furze

We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students, then we have a responsibility to engage with the technology on some level. In order to do that, we need to be using it and and experimenting with it because otherwise, we’re relying on third party information, conjecture, and opinions rather than direct experience.
-Leon Furze

My use of the technology has really shifted over the last few years the more I think about it as a technology and not as a vehicle for language.
-Leon Furze

Let the English teachers who love English, teach English. Let the mathematics teachers who love math, teach math. Let the science teachers teach science. And where appropriate, bring these technologies in.
-Leon Furze

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Sometimes I get in my head about imposter syndrome about being joyful.
-Jackie Shay

Why can’t we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence?
-Jackie Shay

It’s about supporting the learning by doing meaningful, challenging work that promotes growth, that allows us to find joy in the discomfort that comes from the vulnerability of pushing your mind to its boundaries and beyond.
-Jackie Shay

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I think what happens with a lot of people’s efforts to tell stories is that they’re staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don’t have a form that they’re filling up.
-Laura Gibbss

Everybody was thriving with these hundred word stories.
-Laura Gibbss

Meaninglessness in education won’t work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful.
-Laura Gibbss

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We wanted to be flexible and have some opportunities for students and faculty to really have open conversations about how AI might be suitably used given the individual circumstances and the cultural context.
-Mike Perkins

One of the things that is happening that we can’t deny is that the rate of hallucinations is going down. The capabilities are getting better and better.
-Jasper Roe

Criticality and pessimism aren’t the same thing, especially when it comes to GenAI models.
-Jasper Roe

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It is true that people cheat, and that’s the reason we have rules in the first place in our lives.
-David Rettinger

There are always going to be social, personal, and individual pressures on us that cause us to do things that either we didn’t realize were wrong, or that we perfectly well know that are wrong, but that in that moment seem like a reasonable trade off to our behavior.
-David Rettinger

Take care of yourself first, whatever that looks like. You’re never going to help somebody else if you’re not on firm ground yourself.
-David Rettinger

You can treat people with dignity and respect even as you’re calling out their mistake. You can challenge them while being respectful.
-Tricia Bertram Gallant

It is important for us to remember to give grace to ourselves.
-Tricia Bertram Gallant

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As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you’re having to pay attention to and you’re switching between each one.
-Therese Huston

The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine in your ventral striatum, so you feel a sense of reward.
-Therese Huston

Visualizing the process actually increases productivity. The neuroscience shows that you see five times more brain areas activated when you picture the process than when you picture a glorious outcome.
-Therese Huston

If you do just a 5 minute meditation right before you need to recall something, you can get up to a 75% improvement in your recall.
-Therese Huston

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I want to encourage folks to think about how vigor can go alongside rigor.
-Eileen Camfield

We really feel healed. We really feel like our suffering does not have to define us anymore.
-Eileen Camfield

Joy is a renewable resource because it does not get depleted.
-Eileen Camfield

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I was told that that if I showed emotion I would be seen as vulnerable, and my students would be ready to pounce on that vulnerability.
-Jamie Moore

Invisible agreements shadow our classroom interactions and curriculum, capping the potential for connection, feeling, and joy in community with each other.
-Jamie Moore

My favorite thing is learning with my students and humanizing myself.
-Jamie Moore

Are you a living realization of your values and beliefs?
-Jamie Moore

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If we treat the output of large language models as writing, as opposed to syntax generation, which is how I characterize it, then we’re allowing the meaning of writing and the experience of writing to be degraded for humans.
-John Warner

Clearly, this is not feedback that is unique to human beings and unique to how we read.
-John Warner

There is no pivot for humanity. We’re going to be humans whether we like it or not, and we are going to live our life through a series of experiences which convey some manner of meaning to ourselves. We still have to live. We still have to have a day to day experience of the world. We still have to have access to our own minds. We still have to relate to other people. This is the stuff of being human.
-John Warner

Every human is a unique intelligence. Developing a unique intelligence is a work of teaching and learning. And honoring that is the highest calling of a teacher.
-John Warner

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Defiance is a practice, not a personality.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

Defiance is a skill that’s available and necessary for all of us to use.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

For many of us, the distance between who we think we are and what we actually do is enormous.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

To defy is simply to act in accordance with your true values when there’s pressure to do otherwise.
-Dr. Sunita Sah

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There is some guilt students have because they feel like they’re not really pulling their weight, or they’re sort of a burden because they’re not producing an income.
-Jesús Campos

Look at scholarships that are open to nonresidents. They’re out there.
-Jesús Campos

It’s very important not to put yourself and your own experiences in your student’s shoes. Every student is unique and going through something entirely different.
-Jesús Campos

Individuals from different countries go through different processes. It is not a one size fits all.
-Jesús Campos

Students are each special and unique, and it is important we get to know them as such.
-Jesús Campos

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We all have disability at one time or another, maybe just not right now.
-Stephanie Cawthon

I think that there is still a sense of surprise when a request is made for some kind of modification.
-Stephanie Cawthon

This idea that accommodations and accessibility is coming at some cost to the abled is a false pretense.
-Stephanie Cawthon

If you receive a whole bunch of feedback and you can’t do anything about it, that just makes you feel bad.
-Stephanie Cawthon

I was really trying to help us understand our assumptions about disability and accessibility.
-Stephanie Cawthon

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Most of my students have not heard cogent arguments on the other side of whatever their own position is because they’ve been so siloed.
-Simon Cullen

In every one of these classes the point is to try and confront students with the strongest arguments I can find, ideally for the thing they don’t believe.
-Simon Cullen

The first thing they hear from me is if you wish to avoid the risk of being offended, then you should probably not be taking this class.
-Simon Cullen

In philosophy, we always embrace disagreement.
-Nicholas DiBella

We have designed the guide to be as neutral as possible.
-Nicholas DiBella

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Being a good teacher or a good researcher is not something you’re born with. It’s something you learn. It’s something you can get better at.
-Lauren Barbeau

Teaching doesn’t fall into nice, neat color coded boxes. We need something that represents the complexity and the messiness and the way that behaviors overlap and might fall into more than one category.
-Lauren Barbeau

If we can’t reflect on our teaching, we can’t identify our strengths to start leveraging them, to start working on them.
-Lauren Barbeau

If you’re looking for an entry point into critical teaching behaviors, start by reflecting on your teaching and take a look at the materials we’ve provided to help you do that.
-Lauren Barbeau

Be kind to yourself because some semesters are harder than others.
-Lauren Barbeau

It all comes back to caring about students, being transparent about what we’re doing in the classroom, explaining our purpose, and involving them in the conversation that is the learning together in the classroom.
-Claudia Cornejo Happel

While there’s no one thing that is more difficult than another, it really helps us to find a behavior that resonates with us and that we can use as a lens to think about our teaching more holistically.
-Claudia Cornejo Happel

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I think a lot of us kinda simmer in this little mindset of, everybody else can do this and I can’t.
-Michelle Miller

We’ve all heard the old saying it’s the sweetest sound that anybody ever hears their own name. It elevates the conversation differently to be able to use names.
-Michelle Miller

The test isn’t on how well you can recognize the name. The test is on how well you can say the names. That’s what you need need to practice doing.
-Michelle Miller

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Leave the things that you have full discretion on out of a syllabus. Put those things that allow you to show to your students that you care about clarity into a syllabus.
-Kent Kauffman

What have courts that have authority in your jurisdiction or the supreme court said about the rights faculty have in public institutions with academic freedom?
-Kent Kauffman

Students in public institutions have academic freedom too.
-Kent Kauffman

Do my teaching materials belong to me, or do they belong to my employer?
-Kent Kauffman

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I’m focusing on Black women in particular here because there is a history among some Black women with rejecting the term feminism because there is this idea that feminism is for white women.
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

What can we learn from the critical work of Black women through their lived experiences?
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

We’re kind of going away from or rejecting this idea that assignments are transactional.
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

Agency, autonomy, that’s at the center of it.
-Jasmine Roberts-Crews

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I think there are tons of students I interact with who are really just curious and trying to use these tools to dig deeper.
-Christopher Ostro

I want them getting practice on these things that are going to be part of their future careers and lives. I love that my classroom is a stage for that.
-Christopher Ostro

I think AI detection has a place, but its place is limited. I don’t think it should ever be the sole reason a student is getting honor coded.
-Christopher Ostro

I love to tell my students if all you’re doing with these tools is taking the output and submitting as your own work, you don’t have a job.
-Christopher Ostro

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There’s a lot of things that we don’t know that we don’t know until we try to do it.
-Todd Zakrajsek

If 90% get it wrong, you didn’t teach it well.
-Todd Zakrajsek

It is so important for the students to understand that you can discuss a point and nobody knows the answer at the end, but you have thought through it.
-Todd Zakrajsek

To what extent am I helping you to learn in this class? What could I do to further facilitate your learning? What are you doing to facilitate your own learning? And what could you do to further facilitate your own learning?
-Todd Zakrajsek

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What student behavior just triggers your frustration more than anything else?
-Liz Norell

Reflect: What kind of expectations do we have of other people? Are those expectations reasonable? Are their priorities the same as mine?
-Liz Norell

We are living in very interesting times.
-Liz Norell

I don’t think that we can cultivate empathy if we’re not feeling psychologically safe ourselves.
-Liz Norell

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Students begin to better understand institutionalized racism, which is my main goal for them.
-Cyndi Kernahan

When we focus on it as systemic, it allows students to stop focusing so much on themselves about, like, am I a good person or am I a bad person?
-Cyndi Kernahan

There’s a lot of psych research that shows that it’s easier for people to think about their own social privilege when they can also think about other parts of their identity that may not hold as much privilege.
-Cyndi Kernahan

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We need to help students understand that relationships matter for their learning, their well-being, and success.
-Peter Felten

Curiosity is a practice.
-Peter Felten

Empathy in the classroom is not just about being kind; it’s about actively listening and understanding where our students are coming from.
-Kassidy Puckett

Sharing personal stories in the classroom can break down barriers and foster a space where students feel seen and understood.
-Kassidy Puckett

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We can teach in a way where different types of learners can be successful.
-Kerry Mandulak

Perfect is the enemy of us all.
-Kerry Mandulak

I am consistently trying to impress upon students how important reflection and revising is on their learning, because students often want to just move on.
-Kerry Mandulak

A good hug makes a big difference. Personal connections really make a difference.
-Kerry Mandulak

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One of the actions that is in the plan for developing a framework for ethical educational technology is that new tools that are procured are not going to reinforce systemic biases.
-Rajiv Jhangiani

If you’re really intentionally focusing on social justice explicitly, students can tell.
-Rajiv Jhangiani

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I think we could be more generous when we talk to people who disagree with us about pedagogy and recognize the complexity of the decisions that we’re making.
-Betsy Barre

There’s been a lot of really somewhat heated discourse about whether it’s appropriate to share your views in class, or if that’s a violation of your responsibilities.
-Betsy Barre

Institutions can’t be fully neutral.
-Betsy Barre

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I would like to share some gift ideas, perhaps for the holidays, perhaps for other reasons, and specifically to inspire, to encourage, to nourish someone that you know, or perhaps even yourself, who has a love for teaching and a love for learning.
-Bonni Stachowiak

A love letter to all things bookish… a must have for every book collection and makes a wonderful literary gift for book lovers, writers, and more.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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A good mentor will orient you in this field and point you in a direction that might be generative.
-Kristine Johnson

I focus on how research experience can be translated into practical tools like resumes and cover letters.
-J. Michael Rifenburg

Some undergraduate researchers experience isolation, often working alone in environments like libraries.
-J. Michael Rifenburg

Some of the inequities we see occur are a failure of imagination on our part.
-Kristine Johnson

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You need to teach people to critique the dominant culture, but you still need to teach them the dominant culture in order for them to survive economically.
-Maha Bali

Maha Bali: “We found that different AI tools can produce radically different results based on user data or configurations.
-Maha Bali

Sometimes my students teach me new things about AI. This happens a lot.
-Maha Bali

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We are hearing about the effects of students being ill prepared from our community partners, from instructors, and sometimes even frustrations from students.
-Haley Madden

When we do community engagement well, it can be really transformative and impactful for everybody involved and make our community stronger.
-Haley Madden

Students are learning how to be better people.
-Haley Madden

If we don’t try, we’re not going to get anywhere.
-Haley Madden

Do what you can with what you have and just start wherever you’re at.
-Haley Madden

Think about framing learning from failure.
-Cory Sprinkel

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We’re working with a ton of curators who have some expertise in an aspect of teaching and learning.
-Derek Bruff

The more diverse voices we have in it, the more powerful the teaching hub will be.
-Derek Bruff

Teaching is an ongoing creative process.
-Derek Bruff

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We have entire sections on collaboration, and failure, and empathy, and the importance of play.
-Rob Morgan

AI cannot replace the skills of dexterity, collaboration, and creativity.
-Rob Morgan

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Curiosity isn’t just about finding answers; it’s about opening up to understand other perspectives.
-Jeff Hittenberger

Nurturing environments where students feel valued and guided towards their fullest potential can transform educational experiences.
-Jeff Hittenberger

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“What matters to you matters.” – Glen Warren

“Begin with the endless in mind.” – Glen Warren

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I’ve had students share with me in the past that they were considering dropping the class, and then they got that welcome email, and they thought, okay, this time, it’s going to be different.
-Teresa Thompson

My syllabus was all Barbie themed. In the semester before that, it was Pokemon themed. Semester before that was Stranger Things themed.
-Teresa Thompson

I don’t want their first impression of me to be me quickly cleaning the board or freaking out because I can’t find a whiteboard marker that works. I want them to see me calm and ready and happy to greet them as they walk in.
-Teresa Thompson

We have to recognize that our students have a lot going on. Sometimes, even despite their best intention, they may not be able to be a 100% attentive in our classroom.
-Teresa Thompson

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I had some small goals for the Teaching in Higher Ed Story Caravan, and they were all surpassed.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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It’s very easy to be overwhelmed right now with AI.
-Dan Levy

AI has infinite patience.
-Dan Levy

ChatGPT is amazing for generating 10 topic ideas to get inspired.
-Angela Pérez

If you know how to prompt Chat GPT, you know how to create a customized bot.
-Dan Levy

You can think of the teacher being the designer of the feedback rather than the giver of the feedback.
-Dan Levy

I can ask the bot questions that I would be embarrassed to ask my instructor.
-Dan Levy

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Once they’ve done the writing or as even as they’re doing the writing, they’re reflecting on their own metacognitive understanding of their own practices.
-John Warner

While you are in the act of writing, you are processing your own idea.
-John Warner

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A lot of play science comes down to being a safe space to learn from each other, to see how people respond to what you put out there in the world without it being this critical life or death situation.
-Andrew Cross

People disproportionately remember experiences based on both the peaks and the valleys, and then also the ending experience.
-Andrew Cross

Encourage students to freely explore the content on their own. Sometimes that’s content, sometimes it’s a physical space. Turn them loose to go off and find something that they find interesting, a little bit of free choice learning.
-Andrew Cross

Status quo is our enemy too often.
-Andrew Cross

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Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting.
-Josh Eyler

We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to really dig in and find ways that the content becomes meaningful to who they are as people.
-Josh Eyler

We’re in another period of significant grading reform right now, fueled, I believe, by mass communication and social media. People are now able to connect in ways that in previous eras of grading reform, they were not able to.
-Josh Eyler

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Being a dad who is an educator takes things from the academic and intellectual and brings them immediately to the surface, to the real world and to the real consequences for students and families.
-Josh Eyler

The conflict between what we think and what we value and what we want for our kids and what the world and our school systems say are important can sometimes be almost irreconcilable.
-Josh Eyler

We need to create environments that will cultivate intrinsic motivation.
-Josh Eyler

In situations where grades are given, students tend to be more fearful of making mistakes. They produce more behaviors of trying to get the grade rather than learning.
-Josh Eyler

Grades are not objective accurate measurements of learning according to this research.
-Josh Eyler

If grades don’t measure what they’re supposed to measure, why are we using them, and why are we putting so much pressure on them?
-Josh Eyler

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We were never really trained to have these difficult conversations. We were not really trained as instructors to facilitate these conversations.
-Mylien Duong

It is not realistic to not prepare our students to be civically engaged and be able to engage and work with people who are different from them who don’t share the same beliefs that they do.
-Mylien Duong

My goal is to help students to fully understand students, to help them clarify their own thinking, and to ensure and to help them communicate that to the rest of the class.
-Mylien Duong

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I think that our responsibility as professors in the 21st century is to engage students more.
-Adelmar Ramirez

Think with your hands. Every step that you make, every button that you click is an operation.
-Christopher Gilman

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It’s interesting how much comes back to a caravan and a road trip, because that’s where it all started.
-Dave Stachowiak

There’s a lot of people who want to help you. You need to teach them how.
-Dave Stachowiak

The more folks we can take along on the trip and share stories, the better.
-Dave Stachowiak

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He quits worrying about whether Pangloss or Martin are correct, decides that he and his companions should turn their attention to the immediate work demanded by their current circumstances.
-James Lang

Writing is, number 1, a form of thinking, number 2, that produces learning, and 3, generates new ideas. That was true in 2000, and it’s true in 2024.
-James Lang

In the meantime, the gardens need tending. If you continue to believe in the value of the plants that have always flourished in your garden, keep growing them.
-James Lang

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Where does the capability of AI end and where does the impact of the teacher start?
-Jason Lodge

Our tendencies as teachers and the way that we wanted to teach was clashing with the way that the lesson plan had been structured by Chat GPT.
-Jason Lodge

We don’t know where we’re headed, but at least we can have a sense of what the direction might be.
-Jason Lodge

We have to get to the point where we stop looking for evidence that students are using these tools to cheat and shift our emphasis to looking for evidence that learning has occurred.
-Jason Lodge

It’s less about the technology and more about the human, how we learn and how we understand ourselves.
-Jason Lodge

Small things can add up to make a huge difference.
-Jason Lodge

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It’s about being able to sort of think across or beyond those boxes that we normally operate on every day.
-Alexis Peirce Caudell

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I have been surprised at how some of us don’t think about the cost of what we’re requiring our students to use.
-Ann Taylor

It’s the instructor that’s making the difference, that’s making the content come alive.
-Ann Taylor

If you’re boring face to face and monotone or you just kinda mumble and separate, you’re probably not gonna come across great recorded either.
-Ann Taylor

Text first, not video first.
-Ann Taylor

We start with the written word, and then we make sure that anywhere it’s gonna make a difference or it’s gonna engage the students, we incorporate multimedia pictures and graphics and interactive tools and video and so forth.
-Ann Taylor

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Many people who are at the margins often know from lived experience that the playing field is not level, and that there are biases that leaders and individuals across any and every institution have to mitigate.
-Amira Barger

Many people tend to view the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion as this sort of a 0 sum game. That idea of we’re lifting someone else up means you have to push or bring someone else down. And that’s not at all what we’re trying to do this work.
-Amira Barger

It really is about leveling the playing field. It’s not about taking things away, but it’s about understanding.
-Amira Barger

What are you creating so that others can see themselves represented in the spaces they’re in with you?
-Amira Barger

I try to very intentionally surround myself with people who believe and think differently than I do so that I can understand where they are coming from.
-Amira Barger

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We need to either rethink what intelligence means, beyond the scope of simply being articulate and knowledgeable when it comes to to putting words together, or we need to think about what other values we want to promote and encourage and teach that go beyond intelligence.
-Jon Ippolito

It’s a problem because the average of 2 facts is not necessarily a fact.
-Jon Ippolito

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In the college classroom, we don’t often emphasize that type of communication as a skill that’s worth teaching, talking about, assessing, and we focus instead on more formal types of communication.
-Judith Dutill

Communication is a very subjective thing, but I think there is a common definition that we could all agree on that effective communication is creating meaning and being understood.
-Judith Dutill

As we develop in higher education, many of us believe in multiple literacies.
-Judith Dutill

If your discipline involves speaking and listening, communication is at the center of it.
-Judith Dutill

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It is hard for students to accurately think about what their learning process looked like.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

Not only is the system rigged for a certain dominant group, but it is purposefully sabotaging some groups.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

The unfortunate thing about intersectionality is that once you start seeing the power lenses, you can never go back to not seeing the power lenses.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

Our goal is not to get burnt out.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

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We need to provide opportunities for people to find things hard, to persevere, and to see if they come out the other side.
-Leon Furze

For me, brainstorming, idea generation, drafting, all of that is far more important than the finished product itself.
-Leon Furze

If we’re going to accuse students of cheating and then allow professors or or educators to use the technology for assessments, that’s hypocritical, and probably quite condescending.
-Leon Furze

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Good curators are valued members of knowledge networks.
-Bonni Stachowiak

For those of us that teach in a higher education context, there are so many different classroom observation tools that are far more grounded in research.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Let’s celebrate it for the whole 10th year. We are going to be launching an opportunity where we can surface and share our stories and our experiences together.
-Bonni Stachowiak

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And I worked way, way, way, way, way harder than I should have because I thought that if I didn’t work hard, people would see that I wasn’t worthy of being their teacher.
-Danielle De La Mare

Let’s just take a second and really feel all the pain that you’ve been feeling. And put your hands over your heart.
-Danielle De La Mare

Don’t say yes if it’s not something that really speaks to you, if it’s not really a deeper sort of desire of yours.
-Danielle De La Mare

What is it like to be me? Do I even know right now?
-Danielle De La Mare

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The technology changed the standard that we accept.
-José Bowen

There’s a huge equity issue here, but there’s also an opportunity to raise standards.
-José Bowen

There are different things that AI can do to help us with student learning.
-José Bowen

AI has the capability to increase our ability to have relationships with students by taking away some of the other kinds of tedious things.
-José Bowen

Integrity is a universal value.
-José Bowen

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Where will things be 2 and a half years? And how do you prepare students for that world that’s rapidly evolving?
-Eddie Watson

You must use AI as a starting point in the real world.
-Eddie Watson

Even the best tool on the market says that it gets it wrong one out of 20 times. You know, there’s a false positive. It’ll accuse a student of cheating who did not cheat with AI. And that’s the best in show tool.
-Eddie Watson

There are so many ethical concerns within this space just around AI detection.
-Eddie Watson

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This practice really focuses on the beautiful part of us, which is compassion.
-Aga Palalas

What is my intention? Why am I here right now?
-Aga Palalas

Practices take practice.
-Karen Robert

Come back to yourself.
-Karen Robert

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The special power of literature comes from that capacity to have one foot in the factual or the real and one foot in the imagination or the fictional.
-Jody Greene

We know that there are so many other important elements to students’ success, their well-being, their thriving, their career pathways, their ability to pursue interests and curiosities, their engagement, their activism, and all of these multiple measures.
-Jody Greene

I think people care about what the institution has told them they need to care about.
-Jody Greene

I don’t think we should have expectations based on people’s gender in a classroom.
-Jody Greene

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If you want to become a better teacher, find someone who has an interest in teaching like you do.
-Joe Hoyle

Great teaching is terribly, terribly complicated.
-Joe Hoyle

Having a good teacher who is kind to you is very, very important.
-Joe Hoyle

Your success, or your lack of success, is a product of the stories you’re telling yourself. So tell yourself different stories.
-Joe Hoyle

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I love that no is a complete sentence.
-Resa Lewiss

Taking intentional deliberate breaks makes you even more effective and efficient at work.
-Resa Lewiss

In academics, we are told to always say yes.
-Resa Lewiss

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Microlectures prompt students to do something with the information they’re learning.
-Tolu Noah

I always find myself learning so much more about the power and potential of my devices through watching his videos than I would ever figure out just by tinkering around on the device on my own.
-Tolu Noah

Providing information in both audio and visual formats can just make it easier for students to process and retain information.
-Tolu Noah

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Does this represent what I really care about?
-David Clark

Most of us are used to giving feedback in some way, but making it helpful is the tough part.
-David Clark

A reassessment always needs some reflective parts, some metacognition, because that’s part of the feedback loop.
-David Clark

People aren’t going to remember everything that they’ve learned in our classes for all time.
-David Clark

As soon as there’s a grade assigned, students tend to lose the intrinsic motivation they might have to learn these things and focus entirely on that extrinsic grade aspect.
-David Clark

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In one shot, she can’t get a B in the class. And I sat there and just watched her sense of self worth and her excitement in the class just decay away right before my eyes.
-Robert Talbert

When you look at grades as we often use them in a traditional setting, they are much of what we do is under the guise of object what we think is objectivity.
-Robert Talbert

The biggest thing that’s broken about grades is that traditional grading is completely disconnected from the notion of a feedback loop.
-Robert Talbert

Give helpful feedback that doesn’t humiliate the student, affirms their basic dignity as a human being, and highlights what went well. Helpful feedback also highlights what could use some work and invites students to collaborate with you to make it better.
-Robert Talbert

Reattempts without penalty, that’s the closing of the feedback loop.
-Robert Talbert

Points used for grades are a judgment call that results in a label.
-Robert Talbert

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Flexibility requires familiarity.
-Kem Saichaie

Oftentimes, at least at the research intensive level, we have this false comparison between STEM and non STEM types of teaching in classrooms.
-Kem Saichaie

At the heart of many active learning classroom design spaces is the concept of flexibility.
-Kem Saichaie

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It is a really beautiful experience to have multiple generations in the same house where we’re all just living and learning alongside one another.
-Scott Shigeoka

Students can feel unsafe on their campuses because of the discourse or the lack of discourse.
-Scott Shigeoka

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My background is in a field called developmental education, which is some people used to call it remedial education, but the term evolved into developmental because remedial is the idea of fixing things, whereas developmental follows more the natural human cycle of growing and developing across the lifespan.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

Everyone can learn.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

What makes these programs different from a normal, typical college experience is they are designed to help students get employment.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

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Some students might be doing just fine with the traditional, maybe unstructured class. But we know from evidence, lots of research now shows that this type of structure does help students.
-Justin Shaffer

The keyword through all 3 steps is alignment.
-Justin Shaffer

I don’t think the structure necessarily guarantees success because it’s the students ultimately have to put the work in to earn that grade, to earn that outcome.
-Justin Shaffer

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I saw people being asked to, like, completely revamp their entire course and learn how to online, but nothing was removed from their plate.
-Karen Costa

So the first question I want folks to ask themselves is what are my qualifications in this role.
-Karen Costa

Just because you are qualified to do it does not mean that it is yours.
-Karen Costa

I didn’t know what boundaries were until I was about 35 years old, and it’s taken me about 7 years of really challenging interpersonal work to understand what boundaries are and to feel confident in setting boundaries for myself.
-Karen Costa

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People are in a state of despair.
-Laura Czerniewicz

Sometimes sets of values are at odds with the measuring systems in the university.
-Laura Czerniewicz

Little moments of glimmers of innovation, not in the business sense of the word, but in the imaginative sense of the word, are good enough.
-Laura Czerniewicz

We tried to model the values that we talk about in the process of creating the book.
-Catherine Cronin

We wanted to stretch open the boundaries of a book.
-Catherine Cronin

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As we deal with our local contexts, we adjust according to the culture of the people and how they learn.
-Leni Casimiro

Eventually I went to study and get a degree in about online education, then it really became a part of who I am today as an educator.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

The definition of online education is much more expanded, especially with a lot of the tools that are available today that facilitate collaboration.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

I believe that artificial intelligence is going to challenge everything that we knew about online education because at this point you can do a lot of things that we have no control over.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

When you open online courses, you are opening it to serve the whole world. So we need to bring in this global perspective of online education.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

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I want you to include the word hate in front of learning styles and see what happens.
-Dave Cormier

It’s not about it being right or wrong. It’s about understanding where people are from.
-Dave Cormier

I value the headspace of a child whenever they’re learning. And I value that more than whether or not they get something right.
-Dave Cormier

To have common sense is to know the available decisions.
-Dave Cormier

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It’s good to be skeptical.
-Autumm Caines

And I feel like a lot of times students sign up for all these accounts without reading the terms of service, without reading the privacy policy, without thinking about the data that we’re giving over, and without thinking about how that data could be used by a company.
-Autumm Caines

In a world of AI, it is becoming more important to be able to be more critical about the information that’s coming to us and to have better tools available to sort out the truth from the fiction or fictionalized.
-Autumm Caines

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I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Let’s do 500 more!
-Bonni Stachowiak

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Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, internal and external tics that occur repeatedly in the same way. OCD is a neurological disorder that causes problems with information processing.
-Will Hennessy

I honestly thought that I just wasn’t as smart as my peers, that I just needed to try harder, or that one day, I guess, it would just kinda all click in my brain. Now, obviously, I know that’s not the case now, but that’s kind of where I was at.
-Will Hennessy

I want to create inclusive learning environments for neurodivergent learners and introverts, students like me.
-Will Hennessy

Structure is incredibly important for neurodivergent learners. Even though we’re implementing flexibility and choice, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be a free for all where students can just do whatever they want, that could actually hinder learning.
-Will Hennessy

Neurodivergent learners need structure. All learners need need structure.
-Will Hennessy

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When a novice teacher might observe a more experienced teacher, they’re not always going to notice the kinds of decisions that the teacher is making that aren’t verbalized.
-Stein Brunvand

It’s not so much about learning a specific tool, but being open to learning what’s available to you and using what you have available to you to try to improve the learning experience.
-Stein Brunvand

Let’s learn how can we be flexible and adaptable so that we can roll with whatever is available to us.
-Stein Brunvand

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The closer we get to each other, the more we understand each other.
-Paul Galbally

This course will make you uncomfortable. And if it doesn’t, we’re not doing our job.
-Paul Galbally

We get to know our students, and they get to know us.
-Paul Galbally

A brave space is when you can make a space safe by talking about things.
-Paul Galbally

It is more about learning to think rather than having all the solutions.
-Fevronia Christodoulidi Fenia

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I’m always interested in talking with students about how they got to the point that they’re at today.
-Jennifer Coon

There is value in the blank slate.
-Jennifer Coon

Professors are the ones who are really training students to be the next economists, to be the next scientists, to be the next accountants, to be the next everything.
-Jennifer Coon

Service learning is a chance for students to get out of themselves and to experience what it feels like to do some good for someone else.
-Jennifer Coon

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QR codes can be used to support universal design for learning (UDL) principles, specifically in regards to providing multiple means of engagement and providing multiple means of representation.
-Tolulope (Tolu) Noah

If your students created a video, why not create QR codes to share that video with other students so that they can learn from the content too?
-Tolulope (Tolu) Noah

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I don’t want to see a person left behind.
-Todd Zakrajsek

I just assumed that teaching looked a certain way, and then little by little, I started meeting different individuals who struggled for different reasons.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Nobody fails alone.
-Todd Zakrajsek

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I don’t really know everything I have to say, but I’m willing to share my unfinished thoughts with you and I am willing to be criticized for it.
-Maha Bali

If people don’t have the vocabulary to express how they feel, they’ll just say they are fine.
-Maha Bali

This is a space where everyone in the room has to be collectively inclusive, and that’s kind of part of what equity and inclusion in facilitation and in classrooms needs to be.
-Maha Bali

My mentoring is not out of responsibility as something that I have to, I do it with joy because I’m building relationships with people.
-Maha Bali

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The real impact is that you have a number of people within a community that kind of keep other people in check.
-Mike Caulfield

The field of argumentation theory has provided illuminating insights.
-Mike Caulfield

I want you to have the tools to be taken seriously.
-Mike Caulfield

I want you to be able to argue ethically.
-Mike Caulfield

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When students tell me what they think their beliefs are, what I’m hearing is what they wish they believe, not what they believe.
-Stephen Bloch-Schulman

I think what we’re doing when we’re talking about beliefs is often just naming how we wish we were.
-Stephen Bloch-Schulman

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20 years later and I still run into nervousness. The intensity and the kind of nervousness is different, and it often comes up in unsuspecting ways.
-Dave Stachowiak

How can you open the first 10 seconds of a class to capture attention, tell a story, and engage participants?
-Dave Stachowiak

I always have a something in my back pocket, either literally or figuratively.
-Dave Stachowiak

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Learning is exceptionally difficult to really assess in a meaningful way at scale.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos

Students are almost exactly at the same place that faculty are in terms of their skepticism and anxiety about these tools.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos

Learning is change.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos

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Start where you are.
-Karen Costa

Some folks are starting to use these renewable resources like solar and wind to power servers.
-Karen Costa

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We start to question ourselves, and that feeling is really uncomfortable.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu

One word that I use in the book is called imposterize.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu

It’s so valuable to be around diverse folks, folks who are different from you, but it’s so important to also be in with like-minded folks, folks who look like you, folks who have similar beliefs because that can be reinforcing of who you are and to let you know that you are enough.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu

Presence is far more important than someone’s performance.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu

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At the core of any class we’re teaching, we have to think about how a student or a user is going to navigate through that experience.
-Jenae Cohn

I encourage a balance of getting some feedback from your students after the class is over and using the analytics within it to come to some conclusions about what you could revise or do differently the next time you offer the course.
-Jenae Cohn

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We know that questions are extremely powerful.
-Pia Lauritzen

We actually use questions to distribute responsibility.
-Pia Lauritzen

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Autism is increasingly understood as a spectrum condition and experience.
-Sarah Silverman

It is important to reflect on your own educational journey.
-Sarah Silverman

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For us to be talking about something like unlearning or ungrading, there’s an irony in that because we are the people who need to do that work the most and the people for whom that work is probably the hardest.
-Jesse Stommel

The only wrong way to do something is to do it unintentionally, to do it in a way that isn’t carefully thinking through what we’re doing.
-Jesse Stommel

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If it’s not working for you and you can’t maintain a certain level of wellness, then it’s not working. No matter what you’re seeing happen in your students, it is not working because it cannot happen at the cost of your wellness.
– Isis Artze-Vega

It’s about being present.
– Isis Artze-Vega

The relationship that you have with someone does not have to be this long sustained, always impactful kind of relationship. That one short conversation with a student may be the words or the sentence that they need to hear that day.
-Oscar Miranda Tapia

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The technologies at play in higher education changed dramatically in a very short amount of time, and that required us to kind of rethink what we were doing as teachers.
-Derek Bruff

For my course, I felt like it is fine to teach them to write using the AI tools as long as I can help them learn to use the tools well.
-Derek Bruff

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What are the dominant sounds on campus? What are the kind of patterns at which people move? What are the movement of the trees versus the light versus the animals versus people?
-Ryan Johnson

The relationship between the teacher and a student is not intelligence to intelligence, but instead will to will.
-Ryan Johnson

A good distraction is one that can help us come back together, that can allow our attention or our stamina to have a release to return.
-Ryan Johnson

I cultivate brave spaces, not safe spaces.
-Ryan Johnson

I started to notice all these things about campus that one does not as they move through, rather than sits in and resonates with, especially the sounds.
-Ryan Johnson

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100 years of research demonstrates that the magic of learning happens at the third stage, the retrieval stage.
-Pooja Agarwal

I normalize forgetting, that’s part of learning.
-Pooja Agarwal

Be practical and realistic when it comes to incorporating the science of learning.
-Pooja Agarwal

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Hyflex in general is a choice between in person and synchronous, or in person and asynchronous, or a choice of all three of those things.
-David Rhoads

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Students are not actually advised to memorize or even to learn a theory by heart, but they are advised to reflect.
-Yasser Tamer

Do whatever you are interested in.
-Yasser Tamer

Let students choose their own pathway.
-Yasser Tamer

It is equitable, but let’s make it more accessible.
-Yasser Tamer

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When it comes to getting people to be curious, we don’t want them to be confused. High structure is really important, and then within the structure we want to be able to have elements of surprise and delight.
-Bonni Stachowiak

You’re almost always going to be better off linking versus uploading. A similar idea would be thinking about embedding.
-Bonni Stachowiak