We can only see ourselves in mirrors, literal or metaphorical. Literally, we have eyes that point outward in order to take in the world around us and the people in it. Metaphorically, we look outside ourselves to find ourselves, which we do in the way people respond to us and in artifacts we produce, like […]
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I’ve come full circle in many ways throughout the redeeming and re-enchantment of my own education. I have swung left and right with the pendulum and now, as I enter mid-life, I want to walk the balanced road – not of compromise but of wisdom. I’ve definitely arrived at the place in my life where
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Technology dominates our lives. Most of us walk about carrying supercomputers with more processing power than NASA had for the Apollo 11 mission. These labor-saving devices promise freedom, but we are more enslaved than ever. Eliminating communication barriers means that we may be interrupted at any moment by a call or text. Constantly dinging notifications
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What questions are we asking of our technology? What does technology claim about itself?
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Efficiency might be the highest virtue of our age, but what does this do to the way we educate?
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In Old Testament times, people carried personal idols around with them to receive guidance and blessing from their deity. Unfortunately, this tradition is often perpetuated in modern times by the way we carry our smart phones. We fear to part with them. We constantly check them to see if they have any messages for us.
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Just a few weeks ago, an NPR report revealed the findings of several recent studies on parental smartphone dependence and the effect it has upon their children. The results are not surprising, filled with things we already know and, therefore, need to hear again and again. In research for her book, Steiner-Adair interviewed 1,000 children
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As rhetoric and arguments tend to come up in the classes that I teach, we invariably spend some time talking about enthymemes. An enthymeme is a specific type of logical argument–a syllogism–in which either a premise or the conclusion is left implied or unspoken. So, for example, the statement, “Josh is a good husband because
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