Jared Stein – Education, Technology, Culture, and the Internet

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• There are a number of things that come naturally to me in writing. Humor is not one of them. #
• For those interested in how I've been spending January weekends (skating aside): http://t.co/SqJejo5o #
• My draft Canvas blog post on keeping it simple in desperate need of simplification. #
• Looking forward to joining friends and colleagues at ITC eLearning 2012 month. #
• One of the best parts of the semester is when my students start making blog posts. #
• 5.5 is the only one I can dl, so unless you have a copy… #
• Canadian friends: is it best to fly into Edmonton to get to Calgary? #
• @brlamb Yeah, I don't know why our agent recommended Edmonton. But I've never flown into that part of Canada. #
• @sleslie @brlamb Thanks guys, I'll push for that. #
• @sleslie @dlnorman ; #
• @diamond_mind Did you serenade him with La Bamba? #
• Slice the bananas right onto the buttered griddle. Lay that pancake batter all over the top. #
• I wasn't that impressed with the new iBooks 2 textbook samples… until I began looking at existing K12 digital publisher content. #
• Still, that $500 iPad does quite a lot to offset the bargain of a $15 textbook. #
• @holden Someone needs to build a brilliant, usable, epub creator to support OER textbook projects. W(w)iki-books are not competitive. #

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• OLPC and Marvell Introduce XO 3.0 Tablet for Education Purposes – X-bit labs http://t.co/6aNxPdS6 via @Diigo #
• @diamond_mind And that’s _exactly_ the kind of book I would be writing. #
• Fellow desert-dwellers: cure for perpetually dry eyeballs? #
• New Kepi Ghoulie album, “I Bleed Rock N Roll” http://t.co/oj4rPgoF #
• Every time we implement a scheduled 2-week Canvas cloud update, I get all tingly. Continual, iterative improvements ftw. #
• @marionjensen Best Answer Ever. #
• @injenuity You _must_ have photoshopped that. The texture of the sky is crazy. #
• @giuliaforsythe I think I have my watercolor subject for Saturday. #
• @injenuity I know, I was being sarcastic. #
• @giuliaforsythe I just started this year. #
• @giuliaforsythe Not yet. I’ve literally been doing it for 2 weeks, and have maybe a handful of exercises. Now, where do you post yours? #
• Oh man, how did I survive before adding Gmail’s Send and Archive lab mod? #
• Speaking of watercolor, very excited about a block of envelope-sized 140lb paper that I picked up today, perfect for postal mailing. #
• @giuliaforsythe Awesome, thanks for sharing! I’m trying to do 2 a weekend, just to get the practice in. May have to post some tonight. #
• @giuliaforsythe seriously. It’s on my quota for the weekend. #

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• @brlamb Hah, oh I better not be! #
• @lottruminates I liked Cacoo and Mind42. Still like Bubbl.us for real concept mapping. #
• Bb disclaimer: "the term ‘openness’ means different things to different people…" http://t.co/8FwhFgjN #
• New Instructure offices are appropriately Awesome. #
• @injenuity I ♥ usability testing. Last year I paid students with Jamba Juice cards. I think people like to help tech improve. #
• @skydaddy To make new friends. AKA colleagues. #
• @kylemathews Ooh, you're making a gtd app? Is that because you were so underwhelmed by wunderlist? ;) #
• @robmba To be fair, I can get creative with application of the word "open" , too. But only after fully exhausting the meaningful definition. #
• @injenuity Uh oh. But I can fix that… stay tuned. #
• @kylemathews Yes I Do. #
• @stevehargadon The institution/teacher/textbook is no longer the primary source of authoritative info. #detche2011 #
• @xolotl @stevehargadon I'd suspect it is, if only because I see no other recent cultural phenomenon that has affected change in ed. #
• @sleslie #occupyslesliesaquarium #
• @jjulius Technology doesn't reify ed practices, but teachers/admins sure do! (But reverse is true for ed change, right?) #
• Sfard's acquisition vs participation metaphors of learning resonate with @stevehargadon's list of cultural shifts. #detche2011 #
• @jjulius I like your acknowledgement of (some kind of) balance of power between the tool and the user. #detche2011 #
• @xolotl History of radio? Oh man, you're going to have to elaborate on that! #
• Have to disagree that the uniqueness of the on-campus university experience is not expendable/replaceable. #detche2011 #
• @stevehargadon Nice job on the #detche2011 keynote. Refreshing and useful message. #
• Dinner at Lori's Diner in downtown SFO: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, chocolate soda. #
• Presuming this isn't just a gimmick, the summary looks awesome: "Aligning quantum perspective of learning to ID" http://t.co/kg9olweR #
• Phil Hall's mid-term post on Instructure Canvas's Securus Global security testing: http://t.co/ElcRouej #
• Check out "Nobody Likes You (When You're Dead)" by Zombina and the Skeletones – http://t.co/JfVGdBdZ #
• Poltergeist noises coming from my hotel room minibar. #

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I snatched up this passage from Hawthorne’s “Blithedale Romance” for its fitting description of the state I sometimes wonder if we’re trapped in:

I was beginning to lose the sense of what kind of a world it was, among innumerable schemes of what it might or ought to be. It was impossible, situated where we were, not to imbibe the idea that everything in nature and human existence was fluid, or fast becoming so; that the crust of the Earth, in many places, was broken, and its whole surface portentously upheaving; that it was a day of crisis, and that we ourselves were in the critical vortex.

I appreciate how, with all his irresolution and weakness, Coverdale persistently pierces the novel with his voice of experience and reason, though to his colleagues this may be equivocated as cynical, lazy, uninspired, uncommitted, or even counterrevolutionary. I won’t say I’m like Coverdale–no “sagacious man” here–but I do often feel the same, and, too, desire to break out of and away from the groups in which I dwell.

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