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These three book along withDeschooling Society, any John Holt book, Whitehead's The Aims of Education, and Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution (an outlier here I admit) were my guides on the road to unschooling all three of our kids.  Oh yeah, and Neil Postman and the Whole Earth Catalog,

as if we don't do this enough already in our own lives as a really bad coping mechanism.

Is the internet really a new thing?  isn't it just another iteration of the human need to connect? Isn't it just laying down a new network over the old, but the old tunnels are still there (actually in Paris with pneumatic tubes).

Classic mistake of overgeneralizing--not everybody learns this way.

Generating stuff you never need--story of my life. Wonderful to see Sandra in axn.  This is why I love Google Hangout(s)

or Heather Nova ...

Lyrics to Winter Blue Kiss your lashes, hiss you low I'm driven to you like the driven snow There's a place for us to lie For every lover there's a piece of sky To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue You know that this was meant to be Long ago a hundred years from now Tossing on an open sea Love so good it's easy to go down To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Love you like a jungle fever I'll never never never, I'll never leave Through every vein and every fibre I'll never never never, I'll never leave To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Winterblue, winterblue ... Winterblue, my yellow summer ...

Go to the Vialogues above to comment.  Here is the link if you have probs with the embed: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/19196

I could see where this would be very handy way to make an assignment by using the annotation links as guided reading, asking questions, embedding Google Forms,  well...just wow.

OED rear, v.1 (rɪə(r))  Forms: 1 rǽran, 3 ræren, 3, 4 reren, 5 reryn; 4-6 rere, 5, 6 reere, (3) 6 reare, 7- rear; (6-7 rair, 9 dial. rare).  [OE. rǽran (:-OTeut. *raizjan) = Goth. -raisjan, ON. reisa, to raise. OE. had also árǽran arear (in use down to the 17th c.).     The main senses of rear run parallel with those of the Scandinavian equivalent raise, but the adopted word has been much more extensively employed than the native, and has developed many special senses which are rarely or never expressed by rear. Hence, on the one hand, rear has in many applications been almost or altogether supplanted by raise, a process which is clearly seen in the usage of the Wyclif Bible (see note to raise; in the version of 1611 rear is found only in 1 Esdr. v. 62, while raise is freely employed). On the other hand, it is probable that rear has sometimes, esp. in poetry, been used as a more rhetorical substitute for raise, without independent development of the sense involved. As in the case of raise there is some overlapping of the senses, and occasional uncertainty as to the precise development or meaning of transferred uses.]  I.I To set up on end; to make to stand up.  1. a.I.1.a trans. To bring (a thing) to or towards a vertical position; to set up, or upright. = raise 1.    Frequently with suggestion of senses 8 or 11, and now usually implying a considerable height in the thing when raised.     a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1675 (Gr.) Ceastre worhton & to heofonum up hlædræ rærdon.    c 1205 Lay. 1100 Heo rærden heora mastes.    Ibid. 17458 Mærlin heom [the stones] gon ræren [c 1275 reare] alse heo stoden ærer.    1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 455 Þe place þere Oswaldus knelede and rerede a crosse.    c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 2658 Thai rered the Galowes in haste.    1530 Palsgr. 687/2 It is a great deale longer than one wolde have thought it afore it was reared up.    1571 Digges Pantom. i. xxix. I j b, Fixing o

'do overs' allowed

When do we never start over?

(made a comment and lost a comment) Is this more of our loop conversation that started on twitter? I like Simon's words of "You are just on a longer loop" to Susan. Looping around.

As if all the caring was wrung from it?

(Ir)rationalisation, militarisation, institutionalisation. the alchemists. "Learning business management" Performance - nonperformance.

Caring versus military micromanagement

You helped them determine their own freedom.  Determining freedom sounds paradoxical if not downright oxymoronic.

Determining freedom sounds appalling! Trying to create a fissure or crack in implacable academic space where freedom could emerge?

Love this sentence ... idea .... and how it formed all that went forward from there

They were holy hell angry and generally flaming mad for freedom.

There were some seriously bad-assed marketers in those day, i.e. liars of the first order.

For me an mine it is time to get together and swap notes about the world as it is--i.e. stories that define and stories that push the bounds.

When I first clicked I thought, "Yes, if only it was true."  Then I started having second thoughts as I read.

Schools are compulsory for the poor. Not so much for the rich. A school by design is a lot of other things as well most of which has little to do with opening doors so much as shutting them and sorting the rest into where they need to go.

Schools could become like this: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/12/covering-miamis-rising-seas-sensors-public-data-politics/ But I don't think this zombie from the past can be reborn, do you?  There are issues and problems and ideas that schools in general will not tackle, many of them they cannot tackle.  For example, how can schools become think tanks for keeping students in rural communities?

Riffing is a good way to explain it. I "listen" to what he has been doing, move into it and then try to expand that harmony outside of it. Then, he seems to do the same. Here, Terry moves it all in another direction, so interestingly.

yes I keep coming back to idea of music and theatrical space

Need to explore that app more ....

And this is something that gets lost often in the fast-paced world of digital media. It's all whizz bang pow .. move along, little doggy ... and I wish I slowed down more often, to absorb the beauty of the media moment.

Yes slowing down, but on the other hand...

Inside to outside.  Views in a frame. Gregor Samsa waking up forever trapped in the box that Kafka made.  

O, eyes, incline thee to heaven, away from objects insufficient unto the moment.

HIve mind? Collective unconscious? Zeitgeist?  Not sure there is anything alive that can see more than what we hope is a fractal piece of the "Web".

But it is how we pull those fractals together that pushes us to consider/reconsider emerging literacies

I think what I mean is that no one sees it all. Just like no one can manage chaos. It doesn't mean that we can't grasp for a piece of the meaning, and maybe it is fractal, by getting a piece we might have access to a quick glimpse of it all. So many unknown unknowns and so many folk claiming to have figured it all out. Unless of course you give the classic Socratic cop-out of "I know that I know nothing." Yeah, that sucks.

humans as pattern makers even where there is none or even where they might be

Trusting our "gut instinct" about the viability of an online space ... will I belong here or not?

Boundaries are rigid, permeable, and semi-permeable in nature.  Are they such in our social constructs?  Is this just another pattern seen in a metaphor that extends just far enough to trip us up?  Well...I hope not. I kinda like it.

A connection to the theme of trust and fluency, and also, identity. Who do we portray as ourselves in the world?

Or worse you put stuff out into dead air and get no response.

I don't know which is worse, they are both disheartening.

Echo Chamber Effect ...

Yes, the temptation is the gr8 valid8