23. Designing for Significant Learning in the Age of AI

How can A.I. help us as faculty with designing a course for significant learning? Will Amanda get any help hanging her new TV? Grab your favorite beverage and settle in.After catching up from the holiday, Amanda and Ben get back to work talking about backward design – course design that starts with what we want students to know at the end. As they discuss how this approach has influenced their courses, they delve into the areas of significant learning and naturally A.I. If we can offload design for foundational knowledge, what does that leave us to do? Ben and Amanda’s answer: The most important part of being an educator.This episode discusses principles of backward design as written in Designing for Significant Learning by L. Dee Fink and Understanding by Design by G. Wiggins & J McTighe.This episode is hosted by Amanda Colosimo and Benjamin Schermerhorn. Music for the opening and closing of the episode was mixed by Clayton Behlok.