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  • Even when they aren't texting, they are waiting, hoping, imagining that someone is trying to reach them—it's been dubbed Phantom Vibration Syndrome. One student of mine admitted in a journal entry that she often "fake texts" while waiting for class to start or standing in line. She doesn't want to look "like a loser in public."
  • Why this obsessive need to stay in touch, this fear of being unconnected? "Our generation is afraid that we might miss something, that we might fall out of the loop," one of my students confessed in an assigned reflection. Another student echoed that idea and took it a step further: "I want to keep the peace with my friends, so I make myself available 24/7."
  • When we allow for intimacy, we open ourselves to two of the most dreaded conditions in our culture—vulnerability and failure.
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  • If this skittish generation is ever going to embrace risk-taking in the classroom, then risk-taking
  • needs to be introduced consciously, deliberately.
  • "The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization," he writes, "but in attaining some degree of independence of it.
  • What better way to prepare for developing intimacy from without—with one another, with learning—than from within?
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