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Cassie Frost, Anna Cliff
Welcome to the Tick Tock Tech podcast, where we talk about all things education, tech, and teacher happiness. Join hosts Anna Cliff and Cassie Frost as they share simple ideas to guide you and bring meaning to your day-to-day experiences.
Psychology Today describes burnout as "a state of chronic stress that leads to physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, detachment, and feelings of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment." Teachers are usually high achievers who like to work hard and are always looking for ways to improve. These traits are commendable but can mean that educators fall prey to perfectionism and don't leave enough time for rest and recuperation. In her new book, The Weekend Effect, Katrina Onstad argues that we live in a "cult of overwork," and being a workaholic is often celebrated as a virtue when it shouldn't be. Teachers, especially, need to be reminded that they're more than their job. While teaching does become part of your identity, you still need to nourish the other parts of yourself that demand attention and care.
Okay, but it has to be meaningful and we have to be able to maintain it, right?
So now what... I think it is easy to say the words self-care. And it is easy to take a few minutes once in a while to do it. But to do it consistently? And when every day you feel like you are behind?
"Too many teachers have reached the conclusion that this lifestyle is just part of the job; there simply isn’t enough time to be a good teacher and take care of yourself. Self-care is something you’ll get to do over breaks or in the summer, right?" ~https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/teacher-self-care/
Okay, but it has to be meaningful and we have to be able to maintain it, right?
So now what... I think it is easy to say the words self-care. And it is easy to take a few minutes once in a while to do it. But to do it consistently? And when every day you feel like you are behind?
"A survey by Adobe found people in the work place spend on average 3.1 hours per day sending and checking their emails alone, amounting to 15.5 hours per week - and a shocking 20 full weeks of the year."
"If you wanted to communicate with someone that was not a neighbor, you called them on the family’s ONLY rotary dial, landline telephone, which usually had a cord that could stretch around the block, or sent them a handwritten letter; affixed a $.05 postage stamp and deposited it into a U.S. Mailbox, which could be found on any corner."
In this episode of Tick Tock Tech, Anna and Cassie discuss the good and bad of cell phones and how they have changed our world.
The typewriter helped revolutionize the world of work and change the lives of working women in particular. It helped them launch their own businesses at a time when female employers were rare and became a vital weapon in the fight for women’s suffrage. Typewriters inspired novelists and artists, with American writer Mark Twain among the first to use what he called a “new-fangled writing machine”.
Inventors across Europe and America experimented with writing machines throughout the 19th century. Many of these devices were made for people with visual and hearing impairments. Instead of a keyboard, the operator turned a dial to choose a letter and then pressed a lever or key to print it on paper. They may not look like our idea of a typewriter, but they show there was a growing interest in devices that could print individual documents.
Keyboard typewriters in a form we would recognize today were first sold by American firm E. Remington & Sons in the 1870s. The first shipments arrived in Scotland in 1876. They were luxury devices which would have been out of reach for many people at the time, costing the equivalent of half the average annual salary.-nms.ac.uk
In this episode of Tick Tock Tech, Anna and Cassie discuss (insert fire statement here). Listen to learn about three solutions or tips regarding (insert topic here), including:
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Network and find learning opportunities
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Don't be afraid to try and get hands-on with new tech and tools
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Model new tools and learn from your students
View the transcripts for this episode at Disruptive Teaching: Tick Tock Tech.
Episode Resources
Evolution of the Desk Video
History of the Typewriter
"The link is, in a way, a technologically advanced form of a footnote. It's also, distraction-wise, a more violent form of a footnote. Where a footnote gives your brain a gentle nudge, the link gives it a yank. What's good about a link — its propulsive force — is also what's bad about it."
Anna brings this quote from Nicholas Carr’s website to start the discussion of the non-stop draw of links during online reading.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
Just Read
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Consider this: The average human attention span is now shorter than a goldfish’s. A recent study found that the average human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight seconds today. It is reported that goldfish have a 9-second attention span.
Cassie brings this quote from the Orlando Sentinal to discuss our changing attention span and how the internet plays a role.
View the transcripts for this episode at Disruptive Teaching: Tick Tock Tech.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
ATIA Conference
Council for Exceptional Children Conference
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In fact, research has found that our need for connection may be as fundamental as our need for food and water.
Anna brings this quote from choosemuse.com to start off our discussion this week. The pair spends time discussing the trials of virtual meetings and sharing ideas for forming connections using virtual meeting platforms.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
Wisconsin DPI AT Forward
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