“Persistence in the face of a skeptical authority figure is priceless. And yet we undermine it.” –Seth Godin As I was listening to Seth Godin get all fired up about what precisely school is for, I was struck by his comment concerning authority figures. I wholeheartedly agree with the crux of his talk–that we as…Read more »
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Week 11: “In one ear and out the other”
In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock. –Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” This past week, I sat in my Contemporary Pedagogy Class thinking about the things I’d read over the weekend, most of which were about attention and…Read more »