I am always fascinated by how we got to now.
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In this episode, we speak with Dawn Short, a current Applied Digital Learning (ADL) Masters student, and learn how important it is to take ownership of learning by doing authentic work. By staying focused on making her ADL innovation project genuine Dawn has been able to combine her studies with her professional work. Dawn offers advice to incoming ADL students on how important it is for them to adopt the Learner’s Mindset in order to get the most out of the program and apply it to the real world.
Regardless of where you land on the Covid pandemic, the past several years have confirmed that there is a tendency for groups of people to act in a very similar fashion. Why? In the book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Mattias Desmet the Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University argues that the manipulation of individual and collective emotions such as fear, hope, and optimism/pessimism can become amplified in groups, leading to a form of collective hysteria also referred to mass psychosis. While I encourage everyone to read the book The Psychology of Totalitarianism the following video provides a great overview and starting point:
