http://chrislott.org/story/on-lightening-up/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://chrislott.org/story/on-lightening-up/comment-page-1/#comment-135301 5tein Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:40:35 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2008/03/05/on-lightening-up/#comment-135301 While some of that may be true don't discount the genuine commitment to ideals that also contributed to your reaction, and don't disconnect from that passionate part of your identity out of fear of appearing rash. There was a lot of truth in that initial post regardless of the tone (and even if you did clip some innocents) that made me nod my head,"yes, yes"--especially the part where you indicted the presumption that it's either not worthwhile or not possible to define or articulate one's PLE. I react similarly to knee-jerk reactions such as , "To hell with the LMS", or "To hell with teaching creative writing", "To hell with mainstream fiction"... Loosely conglomerated examples, but the passion comes from the same Aristotlean place of wanting to catalogue and define what we love for better understanding. While some of that may be true don’t discount the genuine commitment to ideals that also contributed to your reaction, and don’t disconnect from that passionate part of your identity out of fear of appearing rash. There was a lot of truth in that initial post regardless of the tone (and even if you did clip some innocents) that made me nod my head,”yes, yes”–especially the part where you indicted the presumption that it’s either not worthwhile or not possible to define or articulate one’s PLE. I react similarly to knee-jerk reactions such as , “To hell with the LMS”, or “To hell with teaching creative writing”, “To hell with mainstream fiction”… Loosely conglomerated examples, but the passion comes from the same Aristotlean place of wanting to catalogue and define what we love for better understanding.

]]> http://chrislott.org/story/on-lightening-up/comment-page-1/#comment-135300 beau Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:38:08 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2008/03/05/on-lightening-up/#comment-135300 Reminds me of the day I realized "enlightenment" can mean more than just turning up the rheostat. Dunno that I'll ever be enlightened, but I'd sure like to follow this lightening up thing you got goin'. ;) Reminds me of the day I realized “enlightenment” can mean more than just turning up the rheostat. Dunno that I’ll ever be enlightened, but I’d sure like to follow this lightening up thing you got goin’.

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