Agency, Learning, and Purpose

23/04/2020 45 min Episodio 306
Agency, Learning, and Purpose

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Episode Synopsis

Martha Burtis shares about agency, learning, and purpose on episode 306 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Make space for people to find their agency.
-Martha Burtis
There is so much trauma among our students that we don’t realize.
-Martha Burtis
We need to rethink the opportunities we give students to demonstrate what they know.
-Martha Burtis
All of us can probably tell stories of that teach we had who changes our life.
-Martha Burtis

Resources Mentioned

Drive: The Surprising Truth Behind What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink*


Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose


Video: Drive – The Surprising Truth Behind What Motivates Us
Twitter thread by Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
Domain of One’s Own
A Brief History of Domain of One’s Own
UMW Blogs
Reclaim Hosting
DS106
Alan Levine
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein *
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, by William Bridges*
CoLab Website
Website for Martha’s Course
Resources From an Ungrading Workshop
University as a Wicked Problem