*Note: I'm not currently accepting freelance gigs--building Purpose Portfolio has me pretty much at capacity :) Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a line if I can help find the right designer for your project. `sj
*Note: I'm not currently accepting freelance gigs--building Purpose Portfolio has me pretty much at capacity :) Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a line if I can help find the right designer for your project. `sj
The Congo is on fire...again. Rebels and conspiracy and murder and rape. Thousands of refugees and counting. The footage is horrifying, but what got me was hearing the palpable exasperation of the aid workers being interviewed, and realizing that I'm starting to know how they feel. I stood there in the middle of the hallway of the McKay building not sure whether I wanted more to scream or to cry. "Why can't we stop this!?"
Perhaps the question is so vexing because the answer really is, "We could."
So, if the typical classroom is made for listening, what then would my problem-based, amorphous, flexible, energetic, chaotic classroom be made for?
...that I could just come up with the titles of articles and they would research, analyze and write themselves. I'm pretty good at the title thing. Less so the rest.
Can you really have a movement if the people who start it have not defined themselves in contrast to the prevailing ideal with sufficient clarity to justify movement?
We call this pro-bono work--donated time and expertise to causes (or sometimes just people) we believe in. Is it valuable? Of course. Is it a good thing to do? Certainly. But it's pretty solidly on the "handing out fish" end of that classic analogy.
Our explorations may already be over-simplified, over-generalized and over-stepping the bounds of what we can actually learn from what we measure.
Not sure we really answered most of those questions, but she went ahead--and by Monday morning, she was calling me with solutions instead of questions. She's even been blogging about the process of blogging...
Perhaps taking passionate, more-convicted-than-you-could-possibly-be stands that move the discipline forward is worth looking arrogant, short-sighted, and foolish several decades down the line…
Lately, I feel as though I have been learning without thinking. Like I go directly from reading to writing because my schedule won’t allow for pause and sleep (and my body demands sleep.)
