Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury
March 4, 2025
Intentional Teaching is a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. Hosted by educator and author Derek Bruff, the podcast features interviews with educators throughout higher ed.
The panelists for this edition of Take It or Leave It are… Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi; Betsy Barre, assistant provost and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University; and Bryan Dewsbury, associate professor of biology and associate director of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University.
We discuss three recent essays on class participation, learning management systems, and generative AI and weigh in with a “Take it!” or “Leave it!” for each one.
Episode Resources
- Liz Norell’s website, https://www.liznorell.com/
- Betsy Barre’s website, https://www.elizabethbarre.com/
- Bryan Dewsbury’s website, http://www.seasprogram.net/
- Essay 1: “Making Class Participation Grades Meaningful” by Benjamin Rikfin
- Essay 2: “College as a To-Do List” by Susan D. Blum
- Essay 3: “Saying No to Generative AI” by Cate Denial
- “But How Do I Participate?” by Olivia Bailey
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- “The Workload Paradox with Betsy Barre and Karen Costa,” Leading Lines podcast
- OpenAI Operator, https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/
- Goblin Tools, https://goblin.tools/