After reading the assigned chapters this week, I began to think about the times in my life when I was able to see beyond what I saw and remembered taking this picture during the summer of 2009. This image was taken at the beach next to the Headlands Institute in Marin, California (near San Francisco). I remember looking up and thinking that rock formation looked like a sleeping elephant and my mind fighting the thought because it wasn’t possible. My entire time at Headlands Institute was spent in exploration which led to invention. I was there for a week long Discovery Educator Network National Institute that focused on integrating technology creatively into the classroom. We learned and explored new teaching and learning methods, new web-based tools, new applications and new technology products. Most relevant to this post though, we challenged ourselves and each other to invent new ways to use what we learned to better enhance the learning opportunities of our students and ourselves. We had to see things differently and force ourselves to think outside of the box or the dots in the case of the reading. It was an inspiring experience and yet, it took reading these chapters to remind me of the experience. It is funny how you never know what will trigger a change in your views, thoughts and what you see.
Brian Cross
We share the same fortune, in that, after reading these few chapters sort of reopened/opened your eyes to a different way of thinking. I now question the word impossible and wonder why such a word even exist. There are so many untold truths, its kind of hard to fully grasp the real. The key word through the journey of this book is probably faith. Faith that all things are possible, its a matter of unlocking and getting a better lens to really see the possible.
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