Tag: Ryan Boren

Liked Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text (Ryan Boren)

To flow forward into this future of text where hyperlinks enable workflow thinking, contextual computing, and cultures of knowledge connection, we need intrinsic addressability in all of our tools. We need ubiquitous bidirectional linking of the sort Hook provides.

Liked Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (Ryan Boren)

Iā€™ve experienced several moments of burnout in my life and career. Being something that I neurologically am not is exhausting. Wearing the mask of neurotypicality drains my batteries and melts my spoons. For a long time, for decades, I didnā€™t fully understand what was going on with me. I didnā€™t understand the root causes of my cycles of burnout. Finding the Actually Autistic community online woke me to the concept of autistic burnout. When I found the community writing excerpted below, I finally understood an important part of myself. Looking back on my life, I recognized those periods when coping mechanisms had stopped working and crumbled. I recognized my phases and changes as continuous fluid adaptation.

Liked Autistic children and intense interests: the key to their educational inclusion? (woodbugblog)

In my study, I found that when the autistic children were able to access their intense interests, this brought, on the whole, a range of inclusionary advantages.Ā ResearchĀ has also shown longer-term benefits too, such as developing expertise, positive career choices and opportunities for personal growth. ThisĀ underscores how important it is that the education of autistic children is not driven by a sense of their deficits, but by an understanding of their interests and strengths. And that rather than dismissing their interests as ā€˜obsessiveā€™, we ought to value their perseverance and concentration, qualities we usually admire.Ā And while we do need a better understanding of the negative manifestations of very strong interests, we also need to think differently, and better about the educational inclusion of autistic children. So maybe itā€™s time to ditch the ā€˜strategies for inclusionā€™ ā€“ which, letā€™s face it, arenā€™t working ā€“ and allow teachers the flexibility they need to be able to tap into the strong interests of autistic children in school.

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