What I Was Thinking
I had all kinds of thoughts that were interesting to me on the ride home tonight. One of them was that it doesn’t matter what you think, what matters is the inference to action. That is, anything you believe is okay, what’s open for review is what you think that makes you justified in doing.
This makes it an epistemological question as much as an ethical one. When am I justified in believing I am justified in doing something?
I like the idea of taking ideas seriously; I wondered how I can encourage students to do so.
My idea for the final project is text karaoke. Students have to find a piece of text with an argument in it whose conclusion they accept and present it in some way that demonstrates they understand it.
It was a marvelously beautiful evening and I felt privileged to have the chance to be outside on a bike taking it all in.
It also occurred to me how important it is to commemorate people who are leaving before they leave. Change is in the air all around and a moment should be taken to recognize that.
At home, Mimi and I composed a song by taking turns writing the next word in the lyric. I thought this could be an example of some kind of in-class exercise for students to demonstrate to me what they’ve learned in our class. How this would actually work I have no idea.
Sometimes, coherence takes a back seat to creativity; the details to be worked out later.
Sitting in padmasana this morning, I had a brief glimpse of an alternate, kaleidoscopic perspective that sitting in padmasana for longer might bring. I think I recall, though, that that’s not the point.
Pedaling home, I thought that one norm I could try living by would that as long as your rode your bike there, you were welcome.
By analogy, as long as you think it, it’s okay.
This makes it an epistemological question as much as an ethical one. When am I justified in believing I am justified in doing something?
I like the idea of taking ideas seriously; I wondered how I can encourage students to do so.
My idea for the final project is text karaoke. Students have to find a piece of text with an argument in it whose conclusion they accept and present it in some way that demonstrates they understand it.
It was a marvelously beautiful evening and I felt privileged to have the chance to be outside on a bike taking it all in.
It also occurred to me how important it is to commemorate people who are leaving before they leave. Change is in the air all around and a moment should be taken to recognize that.
At home, Mimi and I composed a song by taking turns writing the next word in the lyric. I thought this could be an example of some kind of in-class exercise for students to demonstrate to me what they’ve learned in our class. How this would actually work I have no idea.
Sometimes, coherence takes a back seat to creativity; the details to be worked out later.
Sitting in padmasana this morning, I had a brief glimpse of an alternate, kaleidoscopic perspective that sitting in padmasana for longer might bring. I think I recall, though, that that’s not the point.
Pedaling home, I thought that one norm I could try living by would that as long as your rode your bike there, you were welcome.
By analogy, as long as you think it, it’s okay.
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