Saturday, March 26, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
your brain on technology
I think I am through testing for a while. I have been busy trying to learn to use all these new ways of communicating with the world. Not all of what I am learning is useful.
I am amazed about how differently various ways of learning affect my brain. When I am working with the computer, the web, the blog, the iPad, I am focused on a 2-dimensional screen and my brain is in problem-solving mode - how do I access this? why isn't this working - it worked the last time?
When I read an eBook, I get the content but it doesn't feel the same as when I read a three-dimensional book, one I can hold and caress and talk to in the margins with my pencil if I want to. I can read reflectively, think poetically while I read, make all kinds of connections that are not possible when I am focused on a screen. It has something to do with my eyes, and their connection to my brain. When my eyes can roam around in three-dimensions, scan more than one page at once, my brain feels different than it does in the e-world (Kellen would understand what I mean). It feels better, freer, broader, richer. My moving eyes settle my brain, give it color.
Maybe this is part of what Jesus meant when he offered us new eyes to see.
Maybe this is part of the story of his Transfiguration in the lectionary this week.
Maybe it is our transfiguration that is at stake.
I will not always write on this blog, but I am preparing to use it some this summer....we'll see how I feel about that once summer arrives.
Thanks for joining the conversation
I am amazed about how differently various ways of learning affect my brain. When I am working with the computer, the web, the blog, the iPad, I am focused on a 2-dimensional screen and my brain is in problem-solving mode - how do I access this? why isn't this working - it worked the last time?
When I read an eBook, I get the content but it doesn't feel the same as when I read a three-dimensional book, one I can hold and caress and talk to in the margins with my pencil if I want to. I can read reflectively, think poetically while I read, make all kinds of connections that are not possible when I am focused on a screen. It has something to do with my eyes, and their connection to my brain. When my eyes can roam around in three-dimensions, scan more than one page at once, my brain feels different than it does in the e-world (Kellen would understand what I mean). It feels better, freer, broader, richer. My moving eyes settle my brain, give it color.
Maybe this is part of what Jesus meant when he offered us new eyes to see.
Maybe this is part of the story of his Transfiguration in the lectionary this week.
Maybe it is our transfiguration that is at stake.
I will not always write on this blog, but I am preparing to use it some this summer....we'll see how I feel about that once summer arrives.
Thanks for joining the conversation
Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
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That last post took me 15 minutes - I can't figure out how to send a document from my Pages app - I ended up pasting it into Monarch. Maybe someone out there can help me with this, but as you can see I am learning new vocabulary all the time
Preparing for sabbatical
This time around, along with planning experiences and securing lodging and transportation, I must learn a new language - the language of the blogosphere and iPad land. I remember the moment in third year French class in high school when I realized I can think in French - I don't have to translate any more!
I am looking forward to that moment with this new language, when I don't have to go through all the steps of translation to share something with those who are interested in what I'm doing - I'll just go directly to my iPad no matter where I am in the world, send it to the blog and voila! - done in a few minutes.
I'm not there yet.
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