What should teachers and students do about our society's sudden obsession with Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, we revisit our previous season's podcast on the topic, reflecting on the role that recent generative AI technologies (LLMs, ChatGPT, and related programs) should play in contemporary education. The speed and intensity with which …

In this episode, I follow up on my thoughts from the previous episode, Mistakes and Values. I explore how to implement creative learning in the transformative classroom with the explicit use of mistakes analysis, sharing how I applied the insights of writers Neil Postman and Kathryn Schulz for the benefit of both teachers and learners. Edumeasure: …

In this episode we examine the obstacles to creative engagement with the learning potential of mistakes in the classroom, focusing on the challenges for teachers as professionals. We use the experiences of the host to illustrate some of these challenges. Part One of a two-part episode on Mistakes and Values. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Educ…

We start off our new season with an interview -- a conversation with an emeritus professor of literature, Dr. Robert Seufert, who reflects on his decades of experience in the classroom teaching English. His experiments in the creation of transformational experiences for students are applicable to a wide variety of teaching environments and situatio…

As we begin the second season of Edumeasure, we thought we would give our listeners some idea of what we learned from the first season, and where we plan to go now. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts EducationBy Bernd Estabrook

What should an extraordinary education look like from the perspective of a college president? Dr Jeff Abernathy, President of Alma College, offers his vision of what a liberal arts education can and should do to to transform student learning, relying on his experience as a Professor, a Dean, a Provost. and a College President over a 40-year career …

In this episode's interview, we listen to three recent college graduates reflect on their educations -- about what was meaningful about the college experience itself, and what those experiences mean to them today. These students provide us with a fascinating perspective on our students' understanding of the goals and ideals of the liberal arts. Thi…

This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts EducationBy Bernd Estabrook

In today's episode we interview Dr. Larry Zettler, a professor of Biology at Illinois College. We discuss how the transformational classroom explores the value of unmediated experiences in support of intensive learning and how this kind of educational experience can have a powerful impact on the students' relationships with the world around them. E…

In this episode I interview Mr. Jim Chaffee, the Executive Director of Learning Innovation and Technology at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. His credentials in education technology make him an ideal professional to speak about how education shapes, and is being shaped, by the rise of powerful new technologies in our school…

Dr. Clayton Spencer looks at how transformational teaching and learning can be promoted in the sciences, offering insights from nearly three decades of teaching chemistry to undergraduates. He reflects on his experiences navigating a creative passage between the requirements of content knowledge and the practice of liberal arts values. Edumeasure: …

In this episode, I discuss with Dr. Dane Wendell how transformational teaching and learning develop in his political science classrooms. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts EducationBy Bernd Estabrook

In this episode I'm interviewing a remarkable teacher of writing, Dr. Cynthia Cochran, who shares the insights of four decades as a writing teacher. Her reflections have relevance for anybody interested in how to transform a skill into a life lesson. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts EducationBy Bernd Estabrook

In this episode I reflect upon an important lesson about teaching and learning that was taught to me by a very unusual student. I look closely at the problem of student engagement, which seems to be an ever more stubborn problem for high schools and colleges across the country. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education…

High school and college courses with a great deal of content are facing increasing difficulties in sharing that content in the classroom. The flood of new information available in most fields, our students' inability to retain and integrate disciplinary content, and the increasing specialization and professionalization in many disciplines all combi…

In this episode Dr. Estabrook interviews a colleague, Dr. Edward Lenert, on his experiences teaching a course on law and media at the University of San Francisco. The discussion revolves around his efforts to develop transformative learning in the classroom– a review of aims, ideals, and pitfalls from his experiences with an innovative first year s…

The new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have the potential to initiate tremendous changes in our society – not the least in how we educate our children. Many educators have expressed concern about AI programs like CHAT GPT, which allow students to have AI do their writing for them. What effect will programs of this kind have…

Edumeasure is a new podcast for teachers, students, parents, and others concerned with transforming teaching and learning; a podcast for exploring creative, unconventional responses to current issues in education. In this episode Dr. Estabrook outlines the key ideas and goals of the podcast for new listeners. Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Edu…