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of the planks covering the window was loosening, so I tried, and did, in fact, remove it. It was the largest plank, covering nearly the entire center portion of the window. Though it was only a small pane, the light shining in was extraordinarily bright. With the sun- light beaming in, I could see straight through, beyond the corridor. I could see where I was, finally -- where I was and how I had gotten here for the first time. Even the strangeness of the spinning wheel dissipated in the brilliance of the sunlight. Faintly, I could hear something -- a calling? I followed the sound to find a most beautiful sparrow: his feathers, lyre-shaped in a dis-play of courtship. |
do we feel about progression -- human, technical or otherwise? We tend to think of it as a symptom of modernity, one of the founding institutions of modernism: pushing, sailing -- ultimately racing -- ahead. But where is ahead? It is straight- ahead; modernism does not wander from the linear path. Here is where we must make a distinction: as post- moderns must not deny pro- gress, in terms of a forward motion or movement. For in so doing, we also naively deny our rhythmic sense-ability. Forward-ness is not necessarily characteristic of the vertical -- it may also be applied to the horizontal -- to the diagonal. Inversion and regression need not be equated, opposed. Inventiveness is a ped-a-gog-i-cal imperative. |
Its position is suspended in time and tense, as is the triad. What is past can never again be otherness, outside. It becomes of one, with-in. |
Its originS are witnessed in various locationS, on various continentS -- its international applicationS recorded by individual inventorS. It is at once both old and new -- atemporally, yet simultaneously -- three tenses of past, present and future. (1) Compared with other forms of educational technology, it is, of course, a rather recent phenomenon. Yet with technological advancement(s) occurring at increasingly rapid rates, the lifespan of each so-called break- through has been significantly lessened -- so much so, in fact, that there is no longer a traditional paradigmatic shift in defining the end of one and the beginning of another. (2) Technical applications of varied ages and capabilities actively working independently and in tandem with one another: a superhighway without speed limits affords the unlikely combination of racecars, rickshaws and rockets. (3) Asynchronous communication facilitates global learning and significantly increases and improves availability, collaboration and participation in learning strategies. Important to note, however: it is not only the actual hardware that is evolving -- but the ways in which we use and think about technology itself. |
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