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Recommendations to new students in the ADL program from a current ADL student who will be graduating shortly.

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.

If we really want to make a difference in the world around us it is crucial that we share our experiences, insights, and knowledge that we have acquired through many years of research into teaching and learning. Sharing our lessons learned through writing, videos, podcasts, modeling and mentoring is the least that we can to to change or improve the world one learner at a time.

LMD EP40 Moving Toward a Learner’s Mindset. In Part 1 of this episode, Dr. Tilisa Thibodeaux shares her personal and professional journey to adopting the Learner’s Mindset. Tilisa shares how she moved from the typical quick-fix mentality of choosing the quickest path of least resistance to embrace challenges as an opportunity to learn Recognizing failure and embracing the notion of failing forward by using higher-order thinking to evaluate and analyze what went wrong and to then synthesize the next steps are a pivotal part of putting on the lens of the Learner’s Mindset. In Part 2 of this discussion, Tilisa will explore some of the challenges she faced through her journey and how she now is sharing the Learner’s Mindset with her new audience.

Listen to this Podcast on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/episode/75v8YsLyIuuM8N5b66Hhs6?si=d69ac69fdd154086