For example. Right now I’m reading a book for class. I became bored with it rather quickly. At first, I thought it was my ‘problem:’ this is a widely regarded book, and if I’m bored it’s because I have a short attention span. Then I started to think, ‘well, why am I bored with this book?’ And it’s not because I have a short attention span, but because the author goes about saying the same thing over and over again. Where the book is concerned, it could be condensed to a blog post and I would have as much of a takeaway.

Now that I think of it, if it were turned into a blog post, I think the author could link to the content that I find excessive and it would be just fine.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is: when I read something, I want to get to the heart of what is being written about. I want it to be concise. If I need to do some more research about the topic, or you need to link to things within the article to build a bigger picture, that is fine. But let’s not confuse that hunger for concise writing with merely a ‘short attention span.’

Agree? Disagree? Make sense? None?

After getting over the initial fear of learning something new, there’s always a challenge (at least for me) to think of ways to make it meaningful for my life.

I had never thought about using the iPad in the classroom as anything more than a novelty, but I’m really starting to re-evaluate my whole attitude based on this experience.

Exciting!

I do know that this attitude that pops up here and there, that the future is somehow going to vanish in the blink of an eye is really fascinating to me. I don’t know if it’s a generational thing or what but one of the goals for this blog is to take a look at this ‘anti-permanence worrying’ and try to understand it a little better.