Category: Ideas
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Classspace
I – am an educator. Thank you very much. I’ve been one for many years. I have been studying it for even longer than I have been an educator. If you’ve been following this blog – you’ll know that I studied adolescent identity formation in online space. I have been…
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The Ability to Suspend Judgment….
is not just cognitive. It is also an emotional endeavor. I have written about Suspending Judgement before. Here’s a post about it in the form of Asking Questions. Here’s another post about it as I understood it and wrote about it years ago – Suspend Judgment. Here’s another post about…
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Attention Addiction
I recently heard about this possibility – that it’s possible to become addicted to attention in much the same way someone can become addicted to smoking or drinking. All people need attention – some more than others. It’s possible to not get enough attention and that comes with some issues.…
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More Insight into a New Way of Being
I don’t write long posts. I wrote about a New Way of Being. As I write this – we are still in that “quarantine and starting to re-open” phase. I keep the posts short and just work out the info – but I don’t spend much time explaining. My hope…
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A New Way of Being
It’s such a simple idea – but not easy to figure out or know what will happen. And honestly, we don’t think about how it changes us or our new way of being until it gets out of control. The Psychology always follows the Technology. We make the thing –…
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The Researcher Identity
This is mainly for me. I realized recently that I have not done much in my research area in the past few years. It’s nice to have done research that is still relevant in conversations today. I know that my doctoral research was a few years back, but I am…
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Scars from 20 Years Ago
Just being thankful for being alive. December 3, 1998 – I got into a huge car accident where I shouldn’t have made it.
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Disney Owns Teens
My good friend Rob Lee said that after I had a little sing along before I spoke at camp. Sometimes when I speak – I’ll play a song, and typically, the song lines up with the talk. I played the Moana song before I spoke the last night – and…
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Sympathetic Magic
Ever heard of it? Sympathetic Magic – an anthropological term that has been used to characterize a variety of primitive beliefs about how spiritual or magical artifacts and rituals might have effects upon other objects (this guy Beck who wrote the book Unclean – consequently, I wish that’s how citing…
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Refresh identitySPECIALIST
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot As you can probably see from the last post – it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. In fact, it’s been awhile since I’ve done much with the blog or much of social media. I haven’t really tweeted much or posted much. I…
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The Way Family Podcast
I had the opportunity to be a guest on the Way Family Podcast. It comes out June 20, 2016 and you can find it here. We talked about #identityformation and the impact that #socialmedia can have on identity. We also briefly talked about extended adolescence and the way that #millenials…
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Talking with Millennials about their Faith
I recently visited odb.org and we filmed a conversation that we had about Talking with Millennials about God. We also talked with Millennials about the topic. It was a fun video to make and I just wanted to share it here. Please check it out and share it. I would…
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