If you're a young Native American, you know how hard it is to grow up with the stereotypes, discrimination, and the pressure to overcome the historical trauma our elders faced. If you're not a Native American, odds are that you have no idea what's it's like exactly. I identify as Native American but because I went to a middle-class white school, I didn't even get to connect with my culture. 

This project is for me, by me, and meaningful to my future as a Native American, a teacher, and a human. 

I really only talk about one topic over the course of the episode, so I don't feel that it's necessary to provide timestamps... BUT:

Introductory points:

• The increase of technology in adolescent education will be perceived negatively until there is a proper balance between the relationships of the psychological, social, economic, and professional education disciplinary insights.

• By taking these insights from each discipline and contextualizing the relationship between technology and adolescent education, we will be able to understand where education is heading and where it’s at now.

• All disciplines have the common ground knowledge of giving children the best education they can and provide a social-emotional learning environment in uncharted territory

Conclusion:

By using the integration strategy of extension, we will be able to integrate the different insights on the relationship between technology and adolescent education. For example, extending the analysis of school economics to reach into providing a healthy social environment that also extends into how the adolescent brain develops, is where we will find solutions. We also need to look at this contextually. To know what's best for a student, we need understand a student's culture, family, mental health, and much more. This way we can use a student's context methodically and have the flexibility to provide an interdisciplinary conclusion on how to incorporate the phenomena of technology.

Little bit about me...

Hi I'm Lyric! I am a student at Colorado State University entering my senior year! I will (hopefully) graduate with a Bach. in Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts. I am very passionate about education because of mentors and experiences I have had in the past. There's more to learn about me and my past research project on decision-making on my blog at https://dontreadmydiarymom.weebly.com/work-blog. I hope you enjoyed! Feel free to reach out to me with questions!

With love,

lyr

I promise, not like that. jeez

Podcast Notes:

0:00-5:18 

The introduction consists of the backstory of what led to me this project idea. I talk about the class it was assigned in, but I mainly talk about my struggles of picking a college major.

5:18-11:14

The next topic is about noticing the difference between your life path and your career path. Within this, I introduce the factors that cause indecision, like parental and peer influences. This is also where I bring up my first set of research which was based on the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnette and Dave Evans.

11:14-15:50

We talk about how education is a large factor in decision-making. From implanting the fear of being wrong into young kids to starting your life too early, our education system makes it so difficult to make decisions. We also bring up the new factors of emotional, mental, and development of humans that impact our decision-making. 

15:50-18:27

Josh asked me about the book I had read, Living Beautifully by Pema Chodron, so I will explain what I took from the book in terms of my overall project.

18:27-31:11

We distinguish between large-scale decision-making and small-scale decision-making in this section. Josh has to make decisions when he plays drums or we both make decisions when we play chess. We talk about how scary it is making decisions, specifically what comes in the future after a decision. The next decision-making category we talk about in this section has to do with poker, specifically based on an interview I conducted for this project. Lastly in this section, we talk about taking inventory of a situation and controlling our reactions, and practicing decision-making as a skill.

31:11-the end

Decision-making is a scary thing. I wanted to leave the listener with a little bit of “advice” about decision-making, but of course, the goal was to inform the audience about how decision-making is bigger than it seems. It’s something that involves practice, and trial & error, and it’s not something we’re all good at. Being poor at it, like me, makes me feel lost in society, even though it’s a common thought that we see every day. 

This last piece is where I state that I have a website https://dontreadmydiarymom.weebly.com/ where everything I said is documented in blog posts with sources. 

With love, 

Lyric.