Perhaps it's no surprise that EdSurge's most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning.
In what has become an annual tradition, we share your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 new episodes we produced.
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Another big theme that emerged was an increase in student disengagement. We produced a three-part series on the topic called “Attention Please,” and two of those episodes made our list. It's worth a listen if you missed it, with scenes from a visit to a state university where I attended several classes to speak firsthand with professors and students about the topic.
We also did some live podcast events last year, including in-person podcast recordings at SXSW EDU in Austin and the ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia. (EdSurge is an independent newsroom that shares a parent organization with ISTE. Learn more about EdSurge's ethics and policies here and its supporters here.)
We're excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments of our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact it's having on the decisions students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send it to me at [email protected].
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10. How Hollywood Stereotypes of Teachers Stifle Learning
Romantic representations of teaching in popular culture fail to capture the way teaching really works and create an unattainable model that stifles the impact of teachers and professors, argues Jessamyn Neuhaus, who teaches courses on popular culture and directs the Center of Teaching Excellence at SUNY. Plattsburgh.
9. Joyce Carol Oates says teaching creative writing is like training boxers
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has a passion for working with students, but finds it difficult to put it into words. Maybe, she admits, it's “like a chess grandmaster could play chess with a really bright 12-year-old and was about to lose; the experience is somehow pleasurable in itself.”
8. Why we could all use a lesson in 'basic thinking'
Human brains are programmed to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A Yale University psychology professor has brought together highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors in a popular college class, which she recently turned into a book.
7. Inside the quest to detect (and tame) ChatGPT
Even before ChatGPT was released, ai experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new type of bot. We spoke with one of those experts, plus others looking to build barriers to help educators successfully adapt to the latest ai technology.
6. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters
Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher compiles innovative strategies and argues that addressing the issue correctly is crucial to building a strong democracy.
5. Lessons from this 'golden age' of science learning
Experts have described this as a “golden age” of discovery in the area of science learning, in which new insights about how humans learn periodically emerge. So what can educators, policymakers, and any lifelong learner gain from this new knowledge?
4. Hoping to regain students' attention, teachers pay more attention to them
Capturing and keeping students' attention is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college professors across the country. That's why they look to other sectors for inspiration, including video game design and elementary school classrooms, to keep lectures interesting. The episode is the second part of a narrative series we did about student disengagement.
3. ChatGPT has universities in emergency mode to protect academic integrity
Many teachers express frustration and even “terror” over ChatGPT, the latest artificial intelligence tool that students may be using to write their papers. That leaves academic honor committees scrambling to review policies and provide resources to instructors.
2. How teachers are adapting to increased student disengagement
Teachers are finding that they cannot simply go back to teaching as they did before the pandemic and expect the same result. Today it takes more to keep students' attention and convince them to attend. Check out part two of our series reported from the back of great masterclasses to see how teaching is changing.
1. What will ChatGPT mean for teaching?
A new ai chatbot can generate long answers to almost any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Students are already discovering that they can use it to write their essays, and educators are thinking about how to adapt. This episode originally aired in January 2023 and was one of the first depictions of the impacts of these new technologies in the classroom.
