The Future of Education is Here

Monday, April 16, 2007

epistemic identity

two events during the last two days have reinforced my sense of belonging while reminding me that there's so much more to learn.

on saturday, i spent the day watching hopeful young motorcycle riders go from stalling and tipping over to moving around a track at a pretty good clip - but nowhere near ready for real roads. more interesting to me was that by the end of the day, they felt more comfortable calling themselves motorcyclists (as evidenced by their discussion of the next day's dress code - the guy who wore his nice kenneth cole boots wasn't going to repeat that mistake, and all of the ladies planned to bring ponytail-clips).

today, i'm sitting in the mediaX conference at stanford watching presenations on technology and people and collaboration. and i am once again reminded taht i already know so much more about these topics than the average citizen - but only on a practical, applied level.

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