In this blog I want to just comment about two quotes I found in two of our textbooks. For some reason I just liked both of them and found them to be very well connected with Richardson's unlearning curves.
From Friedman's book:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
--African proverb
From Richardson text:
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the
sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
--Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder
The first quote essentially tells us that no matter who we are, we all need to get on board, in the case of "unlearning" I would intrepret this as opening our minds to the possibilities of technology and utilizing it in the classroom. We, as teachers need to prepare ourselves to guide students along constructive paths of learning, paths that are well-suited to each individual student.
Quote number two, made by Jimmy Wales is interesting mainly because it hints at the type of tool that technology in the form of the internet is capable of giving to everyone using it. Granted Wales is talking about his Wikipedia creation, but this could be applied to all technology. We are the internet and we are creating the applications and participating in the different activities available, so we are in essence -- doing it.
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Whether we are a lion or a gazelle, its all a game of life. We are all connected in some way and should remember this whenever we do anything, whether that is to teach, environmental, job seeking, you name it.
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