Me and the Amish!

Sunday I took a walk on our Greenbelt.  I'd just finished teaching Friday night and Saturday, a course in Advanced Content Literacy.  Of course I infused the course with lots of technology.  In fact, we're trying out 3D Game-Lab as a learning management system (instead of BlackBoard).  At one point my students asked, "Are we in a technology or a literacy course?"  (I think they were joking--the response so far seems good!)

I was thinking about these things and what I would want to modify next semester while I walked.  I ran into a group of four men dressed like Amish who were speaking in something other than English (German?)--I didn't follow them to try and find out.  I was in shorts with my iPod going.  It suddenly crossed my mind how completely they would be flummoxed by my uses of technology in learning!  Later I ran into a young family who appeared to be attending the same conference. 

Our lives are full of extremes these days. I think this accellerates because of the extremes.  The universe is self-correcting.  If we go too far to one extreme then an opposite extreme will pop up to create balance.

Well back to work--or perhaps I'll go watch Star Trek: The Next Generation.