Podcasts for Climate Change

 1. Kelly Corrigan Wonders

 

2. TED Radio Hour Climate Mindset

Motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose and Hacking Zoom School

 

From YouTube - posted June 24, 2015:

"This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.

The full, non-animated RSA talk can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-h...

12.4.2020 Friday

Journal TGIF: What are you grateful for this week? 

What did you learn independently this week? 

What article or YouTube video or podcast did you find interesting? 

Please share a specific link - share with your classmates in the chat.

What are you intellectually curious to learn more about? 

After watching the EdPuzzle video on Hacking Education, how might that shift the paradigm of learning and teaching for you? 

What is your mindset towards learning? Are you hacking your education? 

What is your motivation? Do you have a sense of autonomy - choice? 

Do you have a sense of purpose for learning? 

How are you striving for mastery?

How might we collaborate and share our learning in this global pandemic that's forcing us to rethink and reimagine school with technology? 

I believe you have stories to share. I believe you are creative. I believe you have an opportunity to learn and rediscover the joy of learning and sharing your intellectual curiosity? 

So, what is your story?

I sense that so many have been checkout of traditional school for many years. 

I forget who said it first, and I have heard it many times: "I hate school, but I love learning."

I agree. 

School to me has become almost a sad and tragic chore - a manipulation of grades and scores to punish some and reward others that can jump through the hoops. 

In a global pandemic, mental health - from isolation to depression - and zoom fatigue are real - and I fear we as teachers have a choice to exacerbating learned helplessness: an attitude of who cares? and why try if I am only going to get _____ (insert grade that will check the box). 

We are going through an historic time. Unprecedented. These are cliche at this point. 

Said over and over again. And it's cliche to say this - again and again. 

There's the Covid virus that pushes us deeper into devices and echo chambers and possible misinformation that plagues the world like a virus. 

We need to understand the FB problem and social media impact on our hearts and minds - our society and our time - and our friends and our families. We have never been more connected yet paradoxically disconnected. 

And time is ticking on our environment as we digitally distract ourselves with Netflix next episodes and likes and follows and tweets and streaks and snaps and stories. 

So, what is your story? 

Are you too tired to care?

Not surprising with sleep deprivation from notifications and blue light devices that decimate our deep sleep with the digital deluge of information. Insomnia wreaks havoc on kids who scroll while anxious for likes while fearing trolls with wicked finsta comments. 

I wonder... 

How do we make the most of this time? 

How do we reimagine what is possible?

How might we rediscover our creativity in the midst of the confinement and constraints?

How might we be more grateful and share our gratitude? 

Listen to this Conversation: Brené Brown with Dr. Sarah Lewis on The Rise, the Creative Process and the Difference Between Mastery and Success

 The power of art...

I have been thinking about this idea a lot this year. 

How might art save us in this dark year?

How might art offer a new imagination to representation for social justice? 

How might creativity move us from despair? 

In our solitude, we might feel less alone. Less isolated. If there were greater sense of purpose, we could read whatever we always wanted to read. 

Seeking mastery, we might learn how to learn new hobbies - from cooking to scrapbooking.

So much to learn and now we have this time this year, but we wish it away to get back to normal. The business of traveling and jetting around the world. Now we zoom. 

Wherever we go there we are. 

How do we chase success? 

How do we fear failure? 

How do we strive for mastery? 

To learn, to grow, to live. I wonder...

Listen to this:

Brené Brown: Hi everyone, I’m Brené Brown, and welcome to the Dare to Lead Podcast. This is such a great conversation. Grab your journal, grab a pen and a piece of paper, you’re going to want to take notes on this one. It is somewhere between a full-on, geek out kind of nerdriffic conversation and just wholeheartedness. And for me, personally, moving conversation with Dr. Sarah Lewis. So it’s a two-part series. This is Part One. We talk about her book, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery. And Sarah and I talk about why the word failure doesn’t quite capture the often transformative experience of falling and beginning again. We also talk about the difference between success and mastery. And for me, this is so important because mastery is very important to me and not something we talk about enough. And we also talk about the power of setting audacious goals that are right outside our grasp. I cannot wait to bring you this conversation. I think you are going to love it. Dr. Sarah Lewis, it’s moving, it’s a moving conversation.