Not yet-ness

Amy Collier joins me to talk about not yet-ness, geekiness, Jazzercise, Stevie Ray Vaughan, teaching, and learning. Podcast notes Guest: Dr. Amy Collier Amy’s blog Connect with Amy on Twitter Amy admits to some shenanigans Stevie Ray Vaughan sings Mary Had a Little Lamb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cGphy7XeZk The great thing about Lego is that it gives kids these tools and they don’t have to be built a certain way.” – Amy Collier Vaughn builds Lego with instructions https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=nMohv6GQBHc Vaughn builds Lego without instructions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXtAcHIGq4 Thoughts on education and teaching You can work with students to do something related to what you’re talking about in class, but they can find creative ways to do things you might not have predicted.” – Amy Collier …finding out what drives them, keeps them coming back, and helping them find their own voice – that’s what education is about. That’s where I find the most joy.” Not Yet-Ness Amy’s post on Not Yet-Ness Jen Ross Creating conditions for emergence Living in that not yet-ness… When you embrace not yet-ness, you are creating space for things to continue to evolve.” – Amy Collier By not creating space for those things, we end up creating a more mechanistic approach to education, rather than something that feels more human and more responsive to our humanity.” – Amy Collier Multidisciplinary examples Domain of One’s Own They have this flexible interface while also connecting to a community Messiness How do we evolve the ways in which we understand what learning is?” – Amy Collier More conversation is needed Amy invites us to consider for which students not yet-ness works best and for which students might it cause some kind of disequilibrium that will cause them not to be successful in their educational experience? More on not yet-ness Audrey Watters: Privileged Voices in Education Embodiment Recommendations Bonni recommends: Doug McKee’s advice: “Your job is to move them one step along a path. You can do that job no matter where they are when they enter your class.” Amy recommends: Anne Lammot “These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.” – Anne Lammot We are human and our dance is one of the things that we bring to a human interaction.” – Amy Collier Closing notes Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.