Medicating Away the Disorders

As promised, I am posting the links to two Frontline programs on medicating children and the effects...and affects it has. The first episode is titled The Medicated Child, and addresses the increase of children on medication since the 1990's. The increase is cited as an increase of 4000%, which is an extremely large number. You can find it here. The second episode is titled Medicating Kids and again addresses the increase of children on medication, but also debates whether or not this increase is necessary, whether or not the behavior in children has changed so much over the years that it requires medication, and has personalized stories from four individuals on medication and how it has helped or hindered the child's development. You can find it here. Enjoy!

Work and Motivation

As I was sitting in class today and we were discussing work and motivation, I though of a few videos that I have seen in recent months. This first one is on motivation, especially in the workplace. Sometimes it makes me wonder what that level of pay is in order to maintain our security. I hope you've asked yourself some pretty deep questions in regards to how to better apply this to your own learnings. What is the best way for you to learn, and for me to teach? The other video that I thought about had to do with work. Where does work happen? How does work happen? I was especially happy that the presentation today mentioned "flow", or the deep thinking/work that occurs when, as I like to call it, you're in the zone. Believe it or not, it's really difficult to get in "the zone". Consider this:

Consider these two videos separately and they are intriguing. Consider them in conjunction with one another and they become revealing, inspiring, and game changing. How can you use these two concepts/theories to better enhance YOUR life? How can teachers use these concepts to better educate you? I'd love to read your thoughts in the comment section.