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I’ve never considered using Pinterest for course work but you have inspired me.
I may give this a try,
Eli

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Unfortunately, this post comment has been delayed by about a week. After seeing IFTTT work with Pinterest on Matthew’s blog, I decided to give it another try.

I had a conversation with one of our Educational Coaches earlier this year. We were in a meeting discussing teaching methods and such, and the topic turned toward the types of technology we can use. In the course of things I mentioned learning math in my early years using an abacus and a slide rule. Oddly, I got some comments re the abacus but for the slide rule? Crickets. No one…I mean, no one…knew what it was. Incredible. Only when I brought up the image on my iPhone did they understand. Of course at that point the humor of the whole thing was lost. #mscedc

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That is all true, Eli. And to be honest, not too long ago I preferred a paper calendar. I think those of us who have prior experience with the items and tactics you mentioned would now find them more of an inconvenience rather than an upheaval of our world. But to those who never bought a daytime planner, and who may not even know what it is, may find the loss of their smart phone a travesty on an equal scale with a major natural disaster. I know I exaggerate, but when one doesn’t know anything else except technology, it could be difficult to start all over again the learning process of life management.

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“How reliant are we on our technology? We use calendars to set and remind us of appointments of all kinds; we use word processing programs of all sorts to prepare documents, reports, PowerPoints, etc.; we use an almost endless menu of apps and programs that influences and controls almost every aspect of our lives.”

Just a thought, are we reliant on technology because we do these things? Before computer technology, I kept a paper diary so I didn’t miss appointments. We used paper and open to prepare reports etc before we have word and powerpoint. So we haven’t changed our behaviours, just the tools we use to carry them out.

If we were reliant on the technology, would we just stop doing these things if we didn’t have access to tech or would we just do things a different way, using different, non-digital tools?

🙂

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Hey Clare,
this is something I am struggling with too. I think I am conditioned through my job that when I add anything to the web it has to meet certain standards of aesthetics and accessibility, the lifestream approach doesn’t really live up to this so I can’t help myself, I want to go back and edit, tweak and visualise everything.

I like to think that the concept of showing a stream of real life rather than presented life we see on facebook and Instagram is somehow more real and grittier. I think I understand it as a concept, as a kick back, doesn’t mean I enjoy it in this sense 🙂

I too have had a bit of a nightmare with IFTTT and wasted hours trying to get it to do something I could have done manually in half an hour so I feel your pain.

Maybe if we force ourselves to engage, we may be pleasantly surprised to see changes in our assumptions and maybe even our own behaviours by the end of the course?
Eli

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