Agency, Learning, and Purpose, with Martha Burtis

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

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

1. Autonomy
2. Mastery
3. 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

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