Seems like my week to forget things and to be forgotten. The chaos of this semester and life in general is getting to me. And so I'll do my final blog post on Feed . Last week in our presentation I ended our class by discussing how we as teachers, in many ways, are the "feed" to our students... an awesome responsibility really. Some days I wonder if I'm truly up to the task: am I patient enough? knowledgeable enough? hard-working enough? smart enough? unbiased enough? am I good enough? do I care enough? I just don't know. I guess we'll see. Through this class, I mean it when I say that I've become much more fully aware of the responsibility we have as teachers to be passionate about learning yet we/I need to learn to allow students to discover their own thinking. I know that I'll need to work on tweaking my approach to engage the students fully to make decisions on their own. I fully expect to learn from my colleagues and hope I get placed in the fall with teachers who are beyond excellent at showing me the way.
As for the book Feed I find that I refer to it a lot. I actually recommended it to several people lately: my soon-to-be-ex-husband who is obsessed with his social networking business and several people at the MAWCA conference I recently attended. Although it's not a book that inspired me by its writing or fulfilled me through its characters, this book's message certainly resonates and strikes a chord with me personally. My marriage became the world of Feed in many ways in its last 2 years. As my husband aggressively pursued his world of creating his social networking software company and basically worked non-stop to "achieve" his life-long dream to make a lot of money, I retreated into myself and my young children and certainly out of the fast-paced career I had been in for almost 15 years. Feed's dystopic world with its almost total reliance on technology and focus on consumerism, a world where human thoughts were controlled by the Feednet connection in brains, was fast-paced, exciting, savvy. Yet, there was little connection amongst humans, little concern for the world around, and there was a void of unplanned time. I didn't love the characters in Feed. Titus was uncaring. Violet was too intense. The friends of Titus were superficial and lacked any depth. As I said in class, I guess all of this is the point of the book. To me the book is a warning that we all need to "disconnect" from the feeds of media, of social networking, of the Internet, of consumerism... and we need to remember what it means to think before we communicate, to make decisions alone, to truly connect, to truly care. Time "disconnected" to "connect" is definitely time well-spent. This allows us to see what is really happening in our lives and in the world around us.
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