Live and Learn Podcast

A new social contract for education (UNESCO report)
Reimagining educational practices
Agile approach to education
Lifelong learning as a new norm
Cooperation, collaboration, solidarity vs teacher-driven education
Synergy vs individual effort
Human skills
Intercultural and interdisciplinary learning

Bonus: etymology of "attract, contract, abstract, extract"

Jobs vs hobbies vs other meaningful activities

Professional transformation as a choice and a challenge

A need for a professional tribe

What makes people happy? - advice from a cOntEnt person (Marina's life philosophy)

Prioritizing and preferences (origin and meaning)
Resolution lists vs agile planning
Time and goal revision
Ownership in pursuing goals
Choosing not to do something
The importance of prioritizing for academic performance

Exclusive nature of language

Self-correction: reasons and effects

Language acquisition: making language your own

Criticism towards one's language use

Voice recording as a tool for exam preparation / presentation performance

Taking the courage to speak: content vs shape

English as a language of international communication (who is the icon of correct speech?)

Coming out: how Live and Learn Podcast's hosts feel about their voices

Taste for curiosity/ curiosity for taste

Turning a hobby into profession

Certification in the world of beer

Vocabulary of flavours

Lingo of beer professionals: is it another language?

Beer running as a combination of a hobby and a job

Representing and communicating a brand

Lana's motto and advice: "Do what you love, love what you do"

New trends towards human-centered work

AI taking over humans' jobs

Specifically human skills

Synergy of human collaboration

Employability and transformation in the future of work

Resilience and being ready for change

A shift from business-centered to human-centered leadership

Agile methodology

Trends in corporate and freelance work: a four-day week

A shorter working week to improve productivity (WEF report)

Less is more: fewer hours, higher efficiency

Scheduling and prioritizing oneself 

Working from home during lockdown as a resource to realize when and how a professional is more productive

Knowing oneself as a key to being a more efficient professional 

With our guest, Edoardo Binda Zane, today we are discussing:

• more energy needed to do things remotely;
• emotional intelligence for managers;
• a need for a different type of leadership in the modern world of uncertainty;
• soft skills in demand for leadership jobs;
• AI taking over some managerial tasks;
• work-life balance, leaders as trendsetters;
• growth mindset and leadership;
• learning from various sources

Feel free to test yourself "emotional intelligence test" here: https://ebz-coaching.com/tests/emotional-intelligence-test/

His book is available on Amazon 😉 https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09GZHK8JN

Starting Season 6 with a warm discussion of:

creating a flow of conversation with friends/colleagues/podcast guests;

the importance of in-person communication;

coming back to online/offline/hybrid classrooms;

relevance of a physical contact and/or perception in educational environment;

creating a meaningful teaching portfolio;

working four days a week;

freedom, responsibility, awareness and choice

Join our community of growth mindsetters, listen to our previous seasons, follow us on social media, live and learn!

We are trying to answer the question "Is "deserving" a vacation harmful?", as well as discussing some of our favourite topics:

work-life-sleep balance;

mental health days/weeks in the world of corporate work;

working hard and earning your living vs enjoying the career of your choice;

Maslow pyramid and being aware of your real needs;

the need to detox and the need to (dis)connect;

digital detox practices across traditions and cultures

Happy to welcome our guest and dear friend and colleague Marina Yalanska to discuss:

• podcasts and reading as ways of perceiving information;
• reading for pleasure;
• happy endings in books and how relevant they are to life and interpersonal communication;
• intercultural differences: good or evil of romance and partnership;
• neuroscience as a way to understand the other (and what for?);
• translation and interpreting of prose and poetry.

Stay tuned, subscribe not to miss the second part of our conversation with Marina, a beauty and knowledge sharer, about professional reinvention and career change.

Check out Marina's Blog about the world of books and books of the world - https://bookmarin.com/en/

Welcome to join!

Negotiation: definition and etymology
Negotiation as a skill
Teaching negotiation skills in an intercultural environment
Traditional negotiation and the culture of bargaining
Manipulative techniques vs ethical negotiation

Live and learn philosophy during vacation

Workation: what is there behind the brand new concept?

Teachers on vacation: self-care and continuous professional development

Vacanza studio: learning during vacation

Summer camp experience for kids and counselors

Links to previous episodes: 

On improving work-life balance https://anchor.fm/live-and-learn-podcast/episodes/On-improving-work-life-balance-eq1i7u

On learning during vacation https://anchor.fm/live-and-learn-podcast/episodes/On-learning-during-vacation-egjqkh

Learning from native speakers vs avoiding typical mistakes

To err is human

How to treat mistakes

Development language errors (child development issues in native speakers)

Psychology behind the fear of making mistakes

Creating a comfortable learning environment

Intentional mistakes for fun

Self-awareness and control in treating mistakes in L2

Is any linguistic input good enough for language learners?

Choosing the language environment

Native speakers as an example of desired linguistic input (or not?)

Correlation between linguistic input and language production

Democratisation and destandatisation of modern languages

Personal cases by podcast hosts

Top tip by Live and Learn podcast

Coming back home: what does it mean and what does it take?

Pains and lessons of repatriating

Useful models behind "culture shock" and "reverse culture shock"

Awareness: can it help?

Takeaways for further expat life

After discussing general points concerning feedback (check them out in our previous episode), we move on to discussing giving and receiving feedback in education

Kirkpatrick's model of feedback

Feedback vs takeaway in the process of education

Feedback on communication, collaboration, learning, person

Feedback: definition and perception

A year of podcasting: thanks for the feedback to our listeners

Stages of communication: coding, decoding, reacting to messages

Neurophysiology behind reacting to feedback

Growth mindset as a prerequisite for receiving feedback and improving performance 

In this bonus episode we are rebroadcasting "Learning to live as an expat".
Being an expat as a life situation and a skill
Relocation
Taking yourself with you
Finding the essential stuff that makes you feel at home
Sticking to your routines
Starting first simple connections
Mutual help in expat communities
Building trust
Staying connected to your own needs

The four pillars of Live and learn philosophy: growth mindset, expat life, language acquisition and skills development. 

In this bonus episode we are rebroadcasting "Growth mindset vs fixed mindset"

Basic characteristics of fixed mindset vs growth mindset

Our attitude and feelings as regards the continuum from fixed to growth mindset 

Some tips on leaving the comfort zone in search of development and self-improvement

A year of podcasting: our lessons and takeaways

Ownership, consistency, content creation, promotion, partnership in podcasting

Growth mindset in developing an educational podcast: learning by doing

Education as a process of intimate communication

Revealing your authentic Self in a podcast

Finding your ideal Teacher or Student with the help of podcasting

* Want to start your own educational podcast? We are ready to share our experience, support and accompany

What do "espresso", "press", "printing" and "branding" have in common?

Brand and branding in professional self-presentation

Continuous professional development and rebranding

Rebranding vs reassembling one's professional Self

Personal branding and finding the niche

Smart communication of one's professional brand 

Yuliya's article: from idea to publication
Skill measurement and digital communication skills measurement through the CEFR paradigm
Useful skills vs outdated skills
Needs behind the skills to be developed
Bloom's taxonomy
Bloom's digital taxonomy
Dante's journey in "La Divina Commedia" and skill development framework

Link to Yuliya's article:

Etymology of "digital" and "collaboration" 

Digital collaboration tools in school and University environment

Does "digital native" mean "ready for digital collaboration"?

Real life examples of applying digital collaboration tools in teaching

What did 2020 teach us/ What did we learn from shifting online?

Verbal abuse and how to avoid it
Language and national mentality as regards set abusive phrases in schools and families
Communication awareness
Cultural and intercultural awareness
Fragility and protection
Cultural and social shift towards less abusive communication
Non-verbal abuse and how to avoid it
Bringing unconscious non-verbal signs to light

Concepts behind words and meanings
Understanding of cultural connotations
Concept mapping in language teaching and learning
Culture and communication: the importance of cultural awareness
Language and thought: philosophy, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience on how we think and speak
How do vocabulary and grammar shape national mentalities?
Promising trends in communication science
Bonus: why aren't beer and milk drinks?

Teaching philosophy: leading by example and encouraging curiosity

Learnability as a skill: learning to learn and teaching to learn

Learning styles: myth or reality

Diversity and inclusion in a classroom

Audio content trends: radio, podcasts, Clubhouse

Infobubbles

Social psychology: we vs them

Early adopters and trendsetters in social networks

Audio and visual content

Web 4.0: being a commentor and a creator

Influencers vs experts

The luxury of silence

Language acquisition: learning skills, soft skills, transferrable skills

Bilinguals vs monolinguals in terms of communicative efficiency

Added value for a CV

Improved employability skills

Language educators as providers of necessary methodology for acquiring soft skills

Further employment prospectives for ELT experts

Learning and leisure

Accessibility of language input abroad

How to choose an app

Choosing the right level: challenging yet enjoyable language input

Neuroscience to help language acquisition app creators

AI to help language teachers with drilling practice

Human teachers vs apps

Work-life balance and how to measure it

Work-life-sleep balance (tribute to IKEA for bringing in this important notion)

Free time vs work time

Calculating extra working hours for teachers and freelancers

Continuous professional development

A model of an "iceberg" in measuring working hours

Diagnosing overload

Work-life balance during lockdown

A recipe of well-balanced life 

Being connected to your needs

We are starting Season 4 with the discussion on:

How we make the conversation flow

How we are part of international discourse concerning education, soft skills, 21st century skills

The importance of AI in recommending content picked for you

The need for curated content for better connection, growth, and leisure time

Bonus art-related discussion: The Four Seasons around pizza and music

• Expressing emotions vs wearing masks
• Being successful during an exam, a presentation, a job interview: prerequisites
• Steps of job interview preparation
• Ways of standing out and fitting in
• Hard skills, soft skills and social roles in a company

Bonus reading: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-still-need-cover-letter-well-really-depends-shtaltovna-phd

Our guest Gleb Kondrashevsky, a program coordinator at DAAD, Moscow, and a person of multiple interests is here with us discussing

Freedom and responsibility while studying in Germany

Curiosity, learning and science

Tracking roots back as a source of knowledge

Mentality differences (if any) between German and foreign students

Cultural and language differences (if any) between small towns and big cities in Germany

Useful advice: 

how to choose a University, 

how to apply for exchange programs on time, 

how to choose your curriculum, 

what to be aware of in terms of studying abroad

Entering the New year: life as a precious gift and the world of opportunities

Measuring soft skills for assessment and making progress

Building a bridge between the actors of the "new" world of education and employment

Bonus: a teaser of Yuliya's academic article (the link will be added as soon as it's available)

Happy New Year, growth mindsetters! Join our discussion on:

reflecting on the year 

making New year resolutions

planning ahead

wishlist vs to-do list

neuroscience behind making affirmative wishes

Bonus: scientific basis of second-language fluency under small amount of alcohol

Pills of comparative linguistics for nerds to begin with: history and curious facts behind words, numbers and verb tense structures. 

AI for intertranslation between multiple languages: benefits and risks. 

No need for language learning and translation any more?

Social dilemma, digital presence and absence, digital dieting and detox

A talk with David Rosson, speech scientist by training, software engineer by trade, regular character in the Berlin language tech meetup scene
From linguistics to software development
Prominent scientists as role models
Science and effort behind achieving certain language levels
Behaviour of producing words VS ability to produce language
AI VS human speech and thinking

To begin with, we are discussing podcasts as a final project in education.
We talk about how informative language certificates are;
argue skipping levels vs continuous learning;
give examples of fluency vs mastering a language.

Bonus: Inna is boasting of her exam results and explaining the reasons for confidence

Survival kit for Advent time 2020

Bringing light and brightness into your living and learning process

Advent time across cultures: celebrating diversity

Bonus: gift ideas from your podcast hosts

Being an expat as a life situation and a skill. Here are some key issues we are discussing this week:

Relocation
Taking yourself with you
Finding the essential stuff that makes you feel at home
Sticking to your routines
Starting first simple connections
Mutual help in expat communities
Building trust
Staying connected to your own needs

21 century skills for employability

Transferable skills

Awareness of knowledge and skills we get

World Economic Forum 2020 on skills and characteristics for the future of jobs

Bonus: useful and curious linguistic discoveries 

Autumn vibes for learners and educators:

routines for productivity;

teacher and student self-care;

neuroscience tips to boost your productivity and stay efficient in autumn;

scientific support for healthy and successful living and learning