Educational Hash Tags
Many of us started demonstrating Twitter without a thought as to its practicability. I know I did. I recalled showing it to a group of teachers in a summer writing academy almost three years ago to the deafening yawn of....meh. I knew it was a big wave building, but had no idea how its complex iterations would flood my own professional life. Now? If I want to get my 'regular' work done I better not open up TweetDeck. Just this morning I followed the #wisdom2conf hashtag to a fabulous TEDxTokyo talk by Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka on Invisible Capitalism and from there to Umair Hacque on Behavioural Innovation and from that to RSA Animate's glorious animations including Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilisation. The biochemical high from scratching the itch of the curious is my mostly positive addiction especially when combined with its necessary consequent--sharing. I guess that is why I conflate teaching and learning to the point where I am so overcome by my good fortune that I occasionally turn to my class with a conspiratorial whisper and say, "They pay me to learn!"
One of my goals this summer is to get my twitter professional development on track and to help others do the same. This means taking in another river of information. I can hear you saying good luck with that to which I respond with a hearty, "Thank you. Any help you might lend in this OED-ian task would be gratefully acknowledged with words but no money." The educational hashtags link above is a good place for me to start sharing a little bit more deeply with the Twitter community what I am raking in. It is time for me to innovate my own behavior, to disrupt my own personal learning algorithm, and to extend an empathic toe into my professions water in preparation for leap into the shallow end. At least I think it is the shallow end.
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Many of us started demonstrating Twitter without a thought as to its practicability. I know I did. I recalled showing it to a group of teachers in a summer writing academy almost three years ago to the deafening yawn of....meh. I knew it was a big wave building, but had no idea how its complex iterations would flood my own professional life. Now? If I want to get my 'regular' work done I better not open up TweetDeck. Just this morning I followed the #wisdom2conf hashtag to a fabulous TEDxTokyo talk by Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka on Invisible Capitalism and from there to Umair Hacque on Behavioural Innovation and from that to RSA Animate's glorious animations including Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilisation. The biochemical high from scratching the itch of the curious is my mostly positive addiction especially when combined with its necessary consequent--sharing. I guess that is why I conflate teaching and learning to the point where I am so overcome by my good fortune that I occasionally turn to my class with a conspiratorial whisper and say, "They pay me to learn!"
One of my goals this summer is to get my twitter professional development on track and to help others do the same. This means taking in another river of information. I can hear you saying good luck with that to which I respond with a hearty, "Thank you. Any help you might lend in this OED-ian task would be gratefully acknowledged with words but no money." The educational hashtags link above is a good place for me to start sharing a little bit more deeply with the Twitter community what I am raking in. It is time for me to innovate my own behavior, to disrupt my own personal learning algorithm, and to extend an empathic toe into my professions water in preparation for leap into the shallow end. At least I think it is the shallow end.
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