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I have advice for people who are grieving or will grieve, as we all will for some reason in life: Allow it. Grief is every human emotion tangled up and out of order. There is no grieving well or not grieving well. Whatever emotions you experience are valid. Be kind to yourself, no matter what kind of crazy shit the emotional depths geyser into your conscious thought.
Definitely feel more mortal this week ā¹ļø
Does that mean I can go to you with all me MinecraftEDU questions?
Men donāt really call one another up and just āhave a chatā, which is one of the reasons why I found recording the TIDE podcast with Dai so amazing. We recorded TIDE for just over four years, from 2015 until this June. It was just like having a chat with a mate while drinking whisky, that just happened to also be a podcast.
Thank you Doug for sharing your thoughts and reflections. I feel that Dai’s passing will leave a hole in many lives.
I like your point about pragmatism. That is definitely something I have taken away from both of you over the years. Easy in words, but always a challenge in action.
I want to thank Dai and Doug for sharing their lives through the podcast and their writings. Iāve felt privileged to get to know them through their work and what they shared. Itās been a privilege to have met Dai through this medium because thereās buckleys I would have run into him at the pub here in Wagga Wagga. Itās a reminder of the power of technology to connect us, to find the others and its ability to share and be intimate even with those you havenāt met.
Great reflection Tim. I like your point about privilege to be given insight into Doug and Dai’s lives through the TIDE Podcast.
The system is so fixed, most students understand the sort of success they are likely to aim for and achieve before they start based on their home life relative to others around them. Killing time always becomes a priority over using it.Ā It really is time to align school systems with the increasing control young people have in their personal lives. My question is how long do they have to wait?
This is another great reflection Richard. I was left think recently about home life and the anti-library. Although books around the home may not equal reading, it at least says reading books is a good thing.
In regards to students being glad to waste away time at school – a feeling I have experienced teaching numerous electives in the past. Do you think that it is realistic to believe or hope for an environment where students do not celebrate such waste or is this just a part of being a teenager?
daveIām left thinking about how I can do better with my own kids in encouraging intrinsic motivation. I want them to want to play cards with me because we have fun together when we do it.
Itās the same kind of intrinsic motivation that I want from the education system. So much of our system is defined and constrained by how we measure success. So often we default to the easy measurement, to the convenient measurement, and lose our way altogether. It may be that the way we model learning as teachers is the only real learning that happens in the classroom. I should pay more attention to my grandpa.
Dave, this all makes me think about mastery learning. For many, this is seen as the solution to students having control and ownership of their learning journey. The problem as I see it is that the roads of success are usually somebody else’s road with somebody else’s vision for tomorrow. This is something you touched on in your post on assessment when you talk about ‘compliance’:
There have been lots of innovation and encouragements. They are, for the most part, directed at trying to get lots of people to āworkā. They intend to measure the compliance of our students. Is our goal about compliance? Or, as it says in basically every strategic plan in education in the world, are we trying to support independent, creative citizens?
I am left wondering what happens if our children do not even want to play cards at all? Or learn an instrument? Or any other activity. Maybe the answer is enforcing independence where:
Students create and assess their own learning. In this scenario, the learner is facilitator and assessor. Where they create their own narratives, their own successes, their own continual feedback.
Once rhizo always rhizo!
Greg McVerryI like having personal conversations with students and developing TAGs-Targeted Areas of Growth. What are the one or two criterion a student should focus on when improving writing. Never try to get an 8 year old writer to adresss six different indicators of quaility at once. I don’t think adult writers should undertake such an endeavor.
Greg, this reminds me of Bianca Hewes ‘two medals and a mission‘ for providing feedback.
Charlie OwenI want to innovate. I love learning new things. It’s what attracted so many of us to this industry. But let’s take time to think about what we build, and how appropriate it is for any given situation.
Perhaps the client-side framework developed by a multi-billion dollar company isn’t the one that you should be pushing into the browser of your local grocery website? Perhaps the buildchains that require ancient dark magick to invocate are not appropriate on a team that simply compiles some Sass to CSS?
Charlie, this post reminds me of the importance of maintainers and how important they are as a foundation for innovation.
After watching the documentary and reviewing the stories I sharedā¦are you ready to delete your Facebook account?
Probably not. As weāve regularly discussed in this newsletter, technology regularly offers us reasons to stop using their products, apps, and services. Yetā¦we stick around for some reason.
If youāre not going to delete your accountā¦take some time and give it a good cleanse, or refresh.
Download your information from yourĀ settings. To download your information:
- Click at the top right of any Facebook page and selectĀ Settings
- ClickĀ Download a copy of your Facebook dataĀ at the bottom of General Account Settings
- ClickĀ Start My Archive
After that, test out two of the options shared in the post above (Facebook Timeline CleanerĀ andĀ F___book Post Manager), to clean out your data.
Iām still deciding whether or not it is time to delete my Facebook account. I have been in the process of scaling back what the social network knows about me. Iāve been downloading and deleting all of my photos from the service. Iāve also refreshed my privacy settings as well. Iāll test out the tools aboveā¦and a total purge may soon be in my future.
I think that what frustrates me the most about ‘leaving’ Facebook is the ability to have a working archive. I love what Jonathan Lacour has done. Sadly, I downloaded and deleted my data before the archive become more usable.
Huge congratulations Fiona
Yesterday I locked into for a trip back to beautiful to Raleigh, North Carolina to attend the 3-day film festival at their local Alamo Drafthouseās VHStival. I was trying to slow down the travel, but when I saw the insane program (Basketcase (1982), Toxic Avenger (1984), TerrorVision (1986) and Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)!) it was impossible not to commit. These folks rule the VHS b-movie programming school. In fact, I bought tickets for these four movies before posting this in fear any publicity may mean no space left for me
I vaguely remember the Toxic Crusaders cartoon growing up, however I never knew there was a film version:
I cannot believe this even made it to a children’s show. Also, as someone who was a cleaner in a past life, I do not think that it is a very fair representation.
Thank you for the tip-off, got myself some great reads:
So, when asked this question aboutĀ ‘who are the people who have inspired you?’, I decided not to list those people (or name drop) but to describe the characteristics of those who inspire me and who I aspire to be.
- Successful without sacrificing integrity
- Place people before profit
- Generous with their time
- Build relationships & connections (established & new)
- Listen to understand, not to respond.
- Itās not always about what you can do for them.
- Genuine & Authentic. How they act in public is who they are.
This is such a nice reflection. It has me wondering what characteristics would make up my list and how I myself might stack up against all of this.
But will these drives be easily retrievable in 30 years? Or will we be searching for an equivalent to a tape cassette recorder, or an 8-track player, to somehow get our data back? Or, how easy will it be for others to access this data as we share more and more of it in the cloud?
Beyond the fear of others getting access, will we even want this data? When was the last time you looked at a backup file or drive that has data you no longer have on your computer or phone?
We have become digital hoarders, all of us. What implications does this have for us, or more specifically, for our future selves?
I find this such an interesting topic David. As I have said previously, it is a topic that Kin Lane has recently been diving into. Personally, managing everything from my own space has made me more mindful of what I share. I think that being more informed about what sort of information and data we are both collecting and collating. Although I am not sure what this looks like for the future, I think that centralising my data and practices makes archiving more doable.
It might go to an audience of just one, but Iāll share it publicly, and hopefully anyone reading this, besides me, will enjoy the writing journey Iām on.
I have really like the idea of daily reflection David, but always struggle to prioritise the time and space in the busyness of daily like. I also wonder if daily is the most sustainable of habits. I do a lot of curating, but feel I could do more creating. What you have reminded me though is that blogs and ideas are all around us, we just need to be willing to let them in.
Interesting provocation Dean. This reminds me of something that @PeterSkillen wrote a few years back http://theconstructionzone.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/another-brick-in-the-wall/
Are blogs really that different though?
Sad to have to miss this year Celia. Your Lego prototyping looked good š
Since when were there so many Oxford introductions š±
Glad to hear it went well. Just didn’t work this year. Maybe next year when ACCE comes to town.